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Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26

Name: Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26
Start: 1940-03-26
Location: Canada

Mar 26, 1940

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Canada
Next national election: Mar 26, 1940
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedMar 26, 1940

Published contest rules

{
  "early": false,
  "electorate": 6588888,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 854,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 245,
  "validVotes": 4620260,
  "votesCast": 4672531
}

Candidates

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | New Democratic Party

Party

Affiliated party: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | New Democratic Party

no party affiliation

Party

Affiliated party: no party affiliation

Liberal Party of Canada

Party

Affiliated party: Liberal Party of Canada

others

Party

Affiliated party: others

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Party

Affiliated party: Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Social Credit Party of Canada

Party

Affiliated party: Social Credit Party of Canada

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · Others

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Seats: 5

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · Independents

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 54,852
Seats: 1
Original value: 1.19
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · CCF

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 393,230
Seats: 8
Original value: 8.51
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · Soc. Cred.

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 123,033
Seats: 10
Original value: 2.66
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · Progressive Conservative Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,416,230
Seats: 40
Original value: 30.65
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1940-03-26 · Liberal Party of Canada

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,381,443
Seats: 181
Original value: 51.54
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e