1988 Canadian federal election

The 1988 Canadian federal election was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 34th Parliament of Canada.

National results

For a complete list of MPs elected in the 1988 election see 34th Canadian Parliament.

PartyParty leader# ofcandidatesSeatsPopular vote1984Dissol.Elected% Change#%Change Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney295211203169-19.9% 5,667,543 43.02%-7.02pp Liberal John Turner294403883+107.5% 4,205,072 31.92%+3.89pp New Democratic Party Ed Broadbent295303243+34.4% 2,685,26320.38%+1.57pp Preston Manning72*--*275,7672.09%* Ed Vanwoudenberg63*--* 102,533 0.78%* Cornelius I74---- 52,1730.40%-0.39pp Seymour Trieger68---- 47,228 0.36% +0.14pp Elmer Knutson51---- 41,342 0.31%-0.68pp Dennis Corrigan88---- 33,135 0.25% +0.06ppNo affiliation100--- 24,5160.19%-0.12ppIndependent5514--22,9820.17%-0.01pp Gilles Gervais58---- 7,467 0.06%-0.21pp George Hewison51--- - 7,066 0.05%-0.01pp Harvey Lainson9----3,4070.03%-0.10pp    Vacant5 Total1,573282282295+4.6%13,175,494100% 

Note:

"% change" refers to change from previous election

↓ 169 83 43 Progressive Conservative Liberal NDP

Vote and seat summaries





Results by province

Party nameBCABSKMBONQCNBNSPENLNTYKTotalProgressive Conservative Seats:12 25 4 7 46 63 5 5 -2  - - 169  Popular Vote:35.3 51.8 36.4 36.9 38.2 52.7 40.4 40.9 41.5 42.2 26.4 35.3 43.0 Liberal Seats:1  -- 5 43 12 5 6 4 5 2  -83  Vote:20.4 13.7 18.2 36.5 38.9 30.3 45.4 46.5 49.9 45.0 41.4 11.3 31.9 New Democratic Party Seats:19 1 10 2 10  -  -  -  -  -  - 1 43  Vote:37.0 17.4 44.2 21.3 20.1 14.4 9.3 11.4 7.5 12.4 28.3 51.4 20.38 Total seats32 26 14 14 99 75 10 11 4 7 2 1 295 Parties that won no seats: Vote:4.8 15.4   3.3                 2.1  Vote:  1.1     1.4             2.0 0.8  Vote:          1.2             0.4  Vote:                        0.4  Vote:            4.3           0.3  Vote:                        0.3  Vote:          0.2             0.1  Vote:                        0.1  Vote:                        xx  Other Vote:                        0.4 

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

Note: Parties that captured less than 1% of the vote in a province are not recorded.

Notes
 Number of parties: 11
 First appearance: Christian Heritage Party, Reform Party
 Final appearance: Confederation of Regions Party, Social Credit Party
 Final appearance before hiatus: Communist Party (returned in 2000), Rhinoceros Party (returned in 2006)

References

Notes


Further reading

 Argyle, Ray. Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before (2011) excerpt and text search ch 14


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