Canadian federal election, 1953

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The Canadian parliament after the 1953 election

The Canadian federal election of 1953 was held on August 10 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent led his Liberal Party of Canada to another majority government, although the party lost seats to the other parties.

The Progressive Conservative Party, led by former Premier of Ontario, George Drew, formed the official opposition.

National results

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24.4%

1.37%

76.9%

50%

3.09%

100%

0.69%

0.50%

1.1%

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1949	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|	Liberal	Louis St. Laurent	262	191	169	align="right"
2,731,633	48.43%	align="right"
Progressive Conservative	George Drew	248	41	51	align="right"
1,749,579	31.02%	align="right"
Co-operative Commonwealth	M.J. Coldwell	170	13	23	align="right"
636,310	11.28%	align="right"
Social Credit	Solon Low	71	10	15	align="right"
304,553	5.40%	align="right"
Independent		14	4	3	align="right"
58,458	1.04%	align="right"
Independent Liberal		19	1	2	align="right"
68,506	1.21%	align="right"
Liberal-Labour1		1	1	1	align="right"
11,380	0.20%	align="right"
Liberal-Progressive		1	1	1	align="right"
8,958	0.16%	align="right"
Labour Progressive	Tim Buck	100	align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
59,622	1.06%	align="right"
Nationalist	Adrien Arcand	1	*	align="right"
*	7,496	0.13%	* |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Independent Progressive Conservative		3	align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
1,636	0.03%	align="right"
Christian Liberal		1	*	align="right"
*	1,505	0.03%	* |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Independent Social Credit		1	align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
422	0.01%	align="right"
Locataire (candidat)		1	*	align="right"
*	417	0.01%	* |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Anti-Communist		1	*	align="right"
*	333	0.01%	* |- | bgcolor="gold"|	Socialist Labour		1	align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
130	x	x
Total			897	262	265	align=right
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

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Party name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NW	YK	Total |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|	Liberal	Seats:	8	4	5	7	50	66	7	10	3	7	1	1	191 |- |bgcolor="lightcoral"|	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 |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	3	2	1	3	33	4	3	1	1	0	-	-	51 |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"|	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 |- |bgcolor="#EEDDAA"|	Co-operative Commonwealth	Seats:	7	align="right"
11	3	1	-	align="right"
1	align="right"
-			23 |- |bgcolor="#EEDDAA"|	Vote (%):	26.6	6.9	44.2	23.6	11.1	1.5	3.0	6.7	0.8	0.6			11.3 |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|	Social Credit	Seats:	4	10	align="right"
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align="right"
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					15 |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|	Vote (%):	26.1	40.7	5.3	6.3	0.3		0.4						5.4 |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Independent	Seats:		-		align="right"
-	3				-	align="right"
	3 |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Vote (%):		0.1		0.2	0.3	3.0				4.0	12.4		1.0 |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Independent Liberal	Seats:				align="right"
-	2	align="right"
					2 |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Vote (%):				4.0	0.3	3.7	1.9						1.2 |- |bgcolor=#EEBBBB|	Liberal-Labour	Seats:					1								1 |- |bgcolor=#EEBBBB|	Vote (%):					0.6								0.2 |- |bgcolor="lavender"|	Liberal-Progressive	Seats:				1									1 |- |bgcolor="lavender"|	Vote (%):				3.3									0.2
Total Seats			22	17	17	14	85	75	10	12	4	7	1	1	265
Parties that won no seats:
Labour Progressive	Vote (%):	2.2	2.7	1.1	2.3	1.0	0.7		0.2					1.1 |- |bgcolor="mediumturquoise"|	Nationalist	Vote (%):						0.5							0.1 |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Independent PC	Vote (%):						0.1							xx |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Christian Liberal	Vote (%):					0.1								xx |- |bgcolor="lightgreen"|	Independent Social Credit	Vote (%):		0.1											xx |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Locataire (candidat)	Vote (%):						xx							xx |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"|	Anti-Communist	Vote (%):						xx							xx |- | bgcolor="gold"|	Socialist Labour	Vote (%):					xx								xx

• xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

Preceded by: 1949 federal election

Canadian federal elections

Followed by: 1957 federal election

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