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Canada · Completed

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1979-05-22

May 22, 1979

Elections

Partial
Jurisdiction
Canada
Next national election
May 22, 1979
Role
Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method
Other method
Status
Completed
Round
1
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Completed
Published contest rules
{
  "early": false,
  "electorate": 15233653,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 683,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 282,
  "validVotes": 11455702,
  "votesCast": 11541000
}

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 — 1979-05-22 · Parti Rhinoceros

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
62,601
Seats
0
Original value
0.55
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share0.6%

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1979-05-22 · Social Credit Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
527,604
Seats
6
Original value
4.61
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share4.6%

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1979-05-22 · New Democratic Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
2,048,779
Seats
26
Original value
17.88
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share17.9%

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1979-05-22 · Liberal Party of Canada

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
4,594,319
Seats
114
Original value
40.11
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share40.1%

Canada — Parliamentary election — 1979-05-22 · Progressive Conservative Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
4,111,559
Seats
136
Original value
35.89
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share35.9%

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

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Media profile

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

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Campaign signals

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Sources

3

  1. 1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
  2. 2Wikimedia CommonsPER-FILE · Aug 9, 2026
  3. 3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026