The Canadian federal election of 1949 was held on June 27 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons

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 of the 21st Parliament

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 of Canada

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. It was the first election in Canada

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 in almost thirty years in which the Liberal Party of Canada

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 was not led by William Lyon Mackenzie King

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. King had retired in 1948, and was replaced as Liberal leader and Prime Minister

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 by Louis St. Laurent

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. It was also the first federal election with Newfoundland

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 voting, having joined Canada in March of that year. The Liberal Party was re-elected with its fourth consecutive majority government, winning just under 50% of the vote.

The Progressive Conservative Party

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, led by former Premier of Ontario

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 George Drew, gained little ground in this election.

Smaller parties, such as the social democratic

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 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

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, and Social Credit

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, a party that advocated monetary reform

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, lost support to the Liberals, and to a lesser extent, the Conservatives.

Voter turn-out: 73.8%

National results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1945 Canadian federal election, 1945 The Canadian federal election of 1945 was the 20th general election in Canadian history. It was held June 11, 1945 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 20th 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...	Louis St. Laurent Louis St. Laurent Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC , was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957....	258	117	191	+63.2%	2,874,813	49.15%	+9.37%	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Party of Canada The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....	George Drew	249	65	41	-21.5%	1,734,261	29.65%	+2.03%	Co-operative Commonwealth Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...	M.J. Coldwell	180	28	13	-53.6%	784,770	13.42%	-2.13%	Social Credit Social Credit Party of Canada The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...	Solon Low Solon Earl Low Solon Earl Low was a Canadian politician in the 20th century.Low was born in Cardston, Alberta, and was a farmer, school teacher and school principal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial that swept the Social Credit Party of Alberta to power...	28	13	10	-23.1%	135,217	2.31%	-1.74%	Independent		28	6	4	-33.3%	119,827	2.05%	-2.84%	Independent Liberal		15	8	1	-87.5%	30,407	0.52%	-1.27%	Liberal-Labour Liberal-Labour (Canada) The Liberal-Labour banner has also been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:In the early twentieth century when the idea of trade unionists running for elected office under their own banner gained ground, several working class candidates on the provincial or federal level were...		2	-	1		11,730	0.20%	+0.19%	Liberal-Progressive Liberal-Progressive Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1926 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no formal Liberal-Progressive party, but it was an alliance between two separate parties...		1	1	1	-	9,192	0.16%	+0.04%	Union of Electors	Réal Caouette Réal Caouette David Réal Caouette was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was a Member of Parliament and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada and founder of the Ralliement des créditistes...	56	-	-	-	86,087	1.47%	+1.46%	Labour Progressive	Tim Buck Tim Buck Timothy "Tim" Buck was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada...	17	1	-	-100%	32,623	0.56%	-1.58%	Independent PC		6	1	-	-100%	8,195	0.14%	-0.14%	Farmer-Labour		1	-	-	-	6,161	0.11%	-0.07%	National Unity Parti national social chrétien The Parti National Social Chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. The party identified with anti-semitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity...	Adrien Arcand Adrien Arcand Adrien Arcand was a Montreal journalist who led a series of fascist political movements between 1929 and his death in 1967...	1	*	-	*	5,590	0.10%	*	Nationalist		1	*	-	*	4,994	0.09%	*	Independent Social Credit		2	*	-	*	4,598	0.08%	*	Labour		2	-	-	-	415	0.01%	x	Socialist Labour Socialist Labour Party (Canada) The Socialist Labour Party was a political party in Canada that was formed by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party never won any seats...		1	*	-	*	271	x	*
Total			851	243	262	+7.8%	5,849,151	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Notes:

* The party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

Results by province

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Party name			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...	NL Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...	Terr	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:	11	5	14	11	55	68	8	10	3	5	1	191	Popular Vote:	36.7	33.8	43.4	45.1	45.1	60.4	53.8	52.7	49.2	71.9	49.0	49.1	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Party of Canada The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....	Seats:	3	2	1	1	25	2	2	2	1	2	-	41	Vote:	27.9	16.8	14.4	22.0	37.4	24.5	39.4	37.5	48.4	27.9		29.7	Co-operative Commonwealth Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...	Seats:	3	-	5	3	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	13	Vote:	31.5	10.0	40.9	25.9	15.2	1.1	4.2	9.9	2.4	0.2	17.0	13.4	Social Credit Social Credit Party of Canada The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...	Seats:	-	10	-		-							10	Vote:	0.5	37.4	0.9		0.2							2.3	Independent	Seats:	1			-	-	3	-					4	Vote:	2.6			2.1	0.1	6.1	0.2				34.0	2.1	Independent Liberal	Seats:					1	-	-					1	Vote:					0.3	1.3	1.4					0.5	Liberal-Labour Liberal-Labour (Canada) The Liberal-Labour banner has also been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:In the early twentieth century when the idea of trade unionists running for elected office under their own banner gained ground, several working class candidates on the provincial or federal level were...	Seats:					1	-						1	Vote:					0.6	xx						0.2	Liberal-Progressive Liberal-Progressive Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1926 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no formal Liberal-Progressive party, but it was an alliance between two separate parties...	Seats:				1								1	Vote:				2.9								0.2
Total Seats			18	17	20	16	83	73	10	13	4	7	1	262
Parties that won no seats:
Union of Electors	Vote:					0.1	5.1	1.0					1.5	Labour Progressive	Vote:	0.8	0.7	0.4	2.0	0.7	0.3						0.6	Independent PC	Vote:					xx	0.5						0.1	Farmer-Labour	Vote:					0.3							0.1	National Unity Parti national social chrétien The Parti National Social Chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. The party identified with anti-semitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity...	Vote:						0.4						0.1	Nationalist	Vote:						0.3						0.1	Independent Social Credit	Vote:		1.4										0.1	Labour	Vote:					xx	xx						xx	Socialist Labour Socialist Labour Party (Canada) The Socialist Labour Party was a political party in Canada that was formed by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party never won any seats...	Vote:					xx							xx

• xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

See also

• List of Canadian federal general elections
• List of political parties in Canada
• 21st Canadian Parliament
  21st Canadian Parliament
  The 21st Canadian Parliament was in session from September 15, 1949 until June 13, 1953. The membership was set by the 1949 federal election on June 27, 1949, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1953 election.It was controlled by a...