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1908 Canadian federal election

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Results

National

Party Party Leader # of candidates Seats Popular Vote
Before After % Change # % Change
Liberal
Wilfrid Laurier
213 133 570,311 48.87% -2.01%
Conservative
Robert Borden
207 82 524,641 44.95% +0.55%
Liberal-Conservative
Robert Borden
4 3 14,733 1.26% -0.27%


Independent
15 1 16,903 1.45% +0.45%
Labour
3 1 10,400 0.89% +0.68%
Unknown
7 0 13,478 1.15% +0.02%
Socialist
5 0 6,071 0.52% +0.35%
Independent Conservative
2 0 5,314 0.46 -0.04%
Independent Liberal
5 0 5,191 0.44% +0.41%
Total
461
220
1,167,042
100.0%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Province by Province breakdown

Party Name BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE YK Total
Liberal 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 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
Parties that won no seats
Unknown Vote (%): 1.3       1.4 1.9       49.0 1.2
Socialist Vote (%): 7.1 1.6   2.9 0.2           0.5
Independent Conservative Vote (%):     5.9   0.4           0.5
Independent Liberal Vote (%):     0.1     1.8         0.4
Total Seats   7 7 10 10 85 65 13 18 4 1 220

Preceded by:
1904 Canadian election

Canadian federal elections

Followed by:
1911 Canadian election