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Canadian federal election, 1953




National results

Party Party Leader # of candidates Seats Popular Vote
Previous After % Change # % Change
Liberal+ 262 191 169 -11.5% 2,731,633 48.43% -0.72%
Progressive Conservative 248 41 51 +24.4% 1,749,579 31.02% +1.37%
Cooperative Commonwealth 170 13 23 +76.9% 636,310 11.28% -2.14%
Social Credit 71 10 15 +50% 304,553 5.40% +3.09%
Independent
14 4 3 -25.0% 58,458 1.04% -1.01%
Independent Liberal
19 1 2 +100% 68,506 1.21% +0.69%
Liberal-Labour(1)
1 1 1 - 11,380 0.20% -
Liberal-Progressive
1 1 1 - 8,958 0.16% -
Labour Progressive 100 - - - 59,622 1.06% +0.50%
Nationalist 1 n.a. - n.a. 7,496 0.13% n.a.
Independent PC
3 - - - 1,636 0.03% -0.11%
Christian Liberal
1 n.a. - n.a. 1,505 0.03% n.a.
Independent SC
1 - - - 422 0.01% -0.07%
Locataire (candidat)
1 n.a. - n.a. 417 0.01% n.a.
Anti-Communist
1 n.a. - n.a. 333 0.01% n.a.
Socialist Labour
1 - - - 130 x x
Total
897
262
265
+1.1%
5,640,938
100.00%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Notes:

(1) The Liberal-Labour MP sat with the Liberal caucus.

"Previous" refers to to standings at previous election, not to standings in the House of Commons at dissolution.

n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

Results by province

Party Name BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL NW YK Total
Liberal Seats: 8 4 5 7 50 66 7 10 3 7 1 1 191
Popular Vote: 30.9 35.1 37.3 37.0 46.0 61.0 52.7 53.0 51.1 67.2 49.4 78.7 48.4
Progressive Conservative Seats: 3 2 1 3 33 4 3 1 1 0 - - 51
Vote: 14.1 14.5 11.7 27.0 40.3 29.4 41.9 40.1 48.0 28.1 38.5 21.3 31.0
Cooperative Commonwealth Seats: 7 - 11 3 1 - - 1 - -     23
Vote: 26.6 6.9 44.2 23.6 11.1 1.5 3.0 6.7 0.8 0.6     11.3
Social Credit Seats: 4 10 - - -   -           15
Vote: 26.1 40.7 5.3 6.3 0.3   0.4           5.4
Independent Seats:   -   - - 3       - -   3
Vote:   0.1   0.2 0.3 3.0       4.0 12.4   1.0
Independent Liberal Seats:       - - 2 -           2
Vote:       4.0 0.3 3.7 1.9           1.2
Liberal-Labour Seats:         1               1
Vote:         0.6               0.2
Liberal-Progressive Seats:       1                 1
Vote:       3.3                 0.2
Total Seats   22 17 17 14 85 75 10 12 4 7 1 1 265
Parties that won no seats:
Labour Progressive Vote: 2.2 2.7 1.1 2.3 1.0 0.7   0.2         1.1
Nationalist Vote:           0.5             0.1
Independent PC Vote:           0.1             xx
Christian Liberal Vote:         0.1               xx
Independent Social Credit Vote:   0.1                     xx
Locataire (candidat) Vote:           xx             xx
Anti-Communist Vote:           xx             xx
Socialist Labour Vote:         xx               xx

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

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