Canadian federal election, 1882

June 20, 1882

211 seats in the 5th Canadian Parliament 106 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	John A. Macdonald	Edward Blake
Party	Conservative	Liberal
Leader since	1867	1880
Leader's seat	Carleton	Durham West
Last election	134	63
Seats won	133	73
Seat change	–1	+10
Popular vote	208,544	160,574
Percentage	40.40%	31.10%
Swing	–1.67pp	+1.95pp

Prime Minister before election

John A. Macdonald
Conservative

Prime Minister after election

John A. Macdonald
Conservative

The Canadian parliament after the 1882 election

The Canadian federal election of 1882 was held on June 20, 1882 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Canada.

Voter turn-out: 70.3%

National results [edit]

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1878	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	Conservative	John A. Macdonald	118	83	94	+13.3%	143,684	27.83%	-1.67pp
	Liberal-Conservative	John A. Macdonald	50	46	39	-8.7%	64,860	12.56%	-3.22pp
	Liberal	Edward Blake	112	57	73	+26.3%	160,547	31.10%	+1.95pp
	Independent		7	5	1	-80%	8,227	1.59%	-1.12pp
	Nationalist Conservative		1	-	1	-	1,084	0.21%	+0.14pp
	Independent Liberal		3	2	2	-	5,740	1.11%	+0.12pp
	Independent Conservative		2	2	1	-50%	927	0.18%	-
	Unknown		121	9	-	-100%	131,178	25.41%	+4.48pp
Total			414	204	211	+4.4%	516,247	100.0%	-
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Acclamations:

The following Members of Parliament were elected by acclamation;

British Columbia: 2 Liberal-Conservatives
Manitoba: 1 Conservative
Ontario: 2 Conservatives
Quebec: 11 Conservatives, 1 Independent Conservative, 4 Liberal-Conservatives, 3 Liberals
New Brunswick: 1 Liberal-Conservative, 1 Independent
Nova Scotia: 1 Conservative

Party name			BC	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	Total
	Conservative	Seats:	3	2	39	38	4	8	-	94
	Conservative	Popular vote (%):	38.4	13.6	27.0	37.7	25.6	23.0	17.1	27.8
	Liberal-Conservative	Seats:	3	1	13	12	3	5	2	39
	Liberal-Conservative	Vote (%):	15.8	38.9	9.1	10.4	7.1	25.8	25.4	12.6
	Liberal	Seats:	-	2	40	12	7	8	4	73
	Liberal	Vote (%):	10.6	25.3	31.9	21.5	36.8	38.7	40.7	31.1
	Independent	Seats:			-	-	1	-		1
	Independent	Vote (%):			1.7	0.8	0.4	4.8		1.6
	Nationalist Conservative	Seats:				1				1
	Nationalist Conservative	Vote (%):				1.0				0.2
	Independent Liberal	Seats:			-	1	1			2
	Independent Liberal	Vote (%):			0.7	1.5	6.2			1.1
	Independent Conservative	Seats:				1				1
	Independent Conservative	Vote (%):				0.9				0.2
	Unknown	Vote (%):	35.2	22.2	29.6	27.1	23.9	7.7	16.8	25.4
Total seats			6	5	92	65	16	21	6	211

xx – less than 0.05% of the popular vote

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