Canadian federal election, 1953 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Canadian federal election of 1953 was held on August 10 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons

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of the 22nd Parliament

22nd Canadian Parliament

The 22nd Canadian Parliament was in session from November 12, 1953 until April 12, 1957. The membership was set by the 1953 federal election on August 10, 1953, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1957 election.It was controlled by...

of Canada

Canada

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. Prime Minister

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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....

led his Liberal Party of Canada

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to its fifth consecutive majority government

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, although the party lost seats to the other parties.

The Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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, led by former Premier of Ontario

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, George Drew, formed the official opposition

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National results

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party	Party leader	# of candidates	1949 Canadian federal election, 1949 The Canadian federal election of 1949 was held on June 27 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 21st Parliament of Canada. It was the first election in Canada in almost thirty years in which the Liberal Party of Canada was not led by William Lyon Mackenzie King. King had...	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....	262	191	169	-11.5%	2,731,633	48.43%	-0.72%	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	248	41	51	+24.4%	1,749,579	31.02%	+1.37%	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	170	13	23	+76.9%	636,310	11.28%	-2.14%	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...	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 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... ¹	1	1	1	-	11,380	0.20%	-	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	-	8,958	0.16%	-	Labour Progressive	Tim Buck Tim Buck Timothy "Tim" Buck was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada...	100	-	-	-	59,622	1.06%	+0.50%	Nationalist	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	*	-	*	7,496	0.13%	*	Independent Progressive Conservative	3	-	-	-	1,636	0.03%	-0.11%	Christian Liberal	1	*	-	*	1,505	0.03%	*	Independent Social Credit	1	-	-	-	422	0.01%	-0.07%	Locataire (candidat) Locataire (candidat) Louis Seigneur was a Canadian politician. In the 10 August 1958 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought election in Quebec East riding as a Locataire candidate. He won 417 votes, 1.3% of the popular vote.-Source:*...	1	*	-	*	417	0.01%	*	Anti-Communist	1	*	-	*	333	0.01%	*	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	-	-	-	130	x	x
Total		897	262	265	+1.1%	5,640,938	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Notes:

* - not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

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

Results by province

Parties that won no seats:
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...	NW Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...	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:	8	4	5	7	50	66	7	10	3	7	1	1	169	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 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	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	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:	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 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:	4	11	-	-	-	-	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 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	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 (%):	3.3	0.2
Total Seats			22	17	17	14	85	75	10	12	4	7	1	1	265																																																																																																					Independent																	Independent Liberal
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) Locataire (candidat) Louis Seigneur was a Canadian politician. In the 10 August 1958 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought election in Quebec East riding as a Locataire candidate. He won 417 votes, 1.3% of the popular vote.-Source:*...	Vote (%):						xx					xx	Anti-Communist	Vote (%):						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

National results

Results by province

See also