The Canadian federal election of 1908 was held on October 26 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons

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 of the 11th Parliament

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The 11th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 20, 1909 until July 29, 1911. The membership was set by the 1908 federal election on October 26, 1908, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1911 election.It was controlled by a...

 of Canada

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. Prime Minister

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 Sir Wilfrid Laurier

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's Liberal Party of Canada

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 was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in government with a majority government

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. The Liberals lost four seats and a small share of the popular vote.

Sir Robert Borden

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's Conservatives

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 and Liberal-Conservatives won ten additional seats.

Voter turnout: 70.3

National results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1904 Canadian federal election, 1904 The Canadian federal election of 1904 was held on November 3 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Canada...	Elected	Change	#	%	Change	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...	Wilfrid Laurier Wilfrid Laurier Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....	213	137	133	-2.9%	570,311	48.87%	-2.01%	Conservative Conservative Party of Canada (historical) The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...	Robert Borden Robert Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office...	207	70	82	+17.1%	524,641	44.95%	+0.55%	Liberal-Conservative	4	5	3	-40.0%	14,733	1.26%	-0.27%	Independent		15	1	1	-	16,903	1.45%	+0.45%	Labour		3	-	1		10,400	0.89%	+0.68%	Unknown		7	-	-	-	13,478	1.15%	+0.02%	Socialist Socialist Party of Canada There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...		5	-	-	-	6,071	0.52%	+0.35%	Independent Conservative		2	1	1	-100%	5,314	0.46	-0.04%	Independent Liberal		5	-	-	-	5,191	0.44%	+0.41%
Total			461	214	221	+2.8%	1,167,042	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Results by province

Party			BC British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...	AB Alberta Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...	SK Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....	MB Manitoba Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...	ON Ontario Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....	QC Quebec Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....	NB New Brunswick New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...	NS Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...	PE Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...	YK Yukon Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....	Total	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...	Seats:	2	4	9	2	37	52	11	12	3	1	133	Popular vote (%):	35.9	50.2	56.6	45.4	45.0	53.0	56.2	51.0	50.4	40.2	48.9	Conservative Conservative Party of Canada (historical) The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...	Seats:	5	2	1	8	46	12	2	5	1	-	82	Vote (%):	46.8	38.1	36.8	51.5	49.2	39.5	43.8	44.5	49.6	10.8	45.0	Liberal-Conservative	Seats:		1			1			1			3	Vote (%):		6.4			1.5			4.5			1.3	Independent	Seats:	-	-	-	-	1	-					1	Vote (%):	8.9	3.7	0.6	0.1	1.8	1.1					1.5	Labour	Seats:					-	1					1	Vote (%):					0.7	2.6					0.9	Independent Conservative	Seats:			-		1						1	Vote (%):			5.9		0.4						0.5
Total seats			7	7	10	10	86	65	13	18	4	1	221
Parties that won no seats:														Unknown	Vote (%):	1.3				1.4	1.9				49.0	1.2	Socialist Socialist Party of Canada There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...	Vote (%):	7.1	1.6		2.9	0.2						0.5	Independent Liberal	Vote (%):			0.1			1.8					0.4

See also

• List of Canadian federal general elections
• List of political parties in Canada
• 11th Canadian Parliament
  11th Canadian Parliament
  The 11th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 20, 1909 until July 29, 1911. The membership was set by the 1908 federal election on October 26, 1908, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1911 election.It was controlled by a...