1984 Canadian federal election

The 1984 Canadian federal election was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.

1984 Canadian federal election

September 4, 1984
282 seats in the House of Commons 142 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	75.3% (6.0pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Brian Mulroney John Turner Ed Broadbent Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic Leader since June 11, 1983 June 16, 1984 July 7, 1975 Leader's seat Manicouagan Vancouver Quadra Oshawa Last election 103 seats, 32.45% 147 seats, 44.34% 32 seats, 19.77% Seats before 100 135 31 Seats won 211 40 30 Seat change 111 95 1 Popular vote 6,278,818 3,516,486 2,359,915 Percentage 50.03% 28.02% 18.81% Swing 17.59pp 16.32pp 0.97pp
Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by province but instead via results by each riding.
Prime Minister before election John Turner Liberal Prime Minister after election Brian Mulroney Progressive Conservative

All numerical results from Elections Canada's Official Report on the Thirty-Third Election.

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211	40	30	1
Progressive Conservative	Liberal	NDP	O

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				1980	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Mulroney	282	103	100	211	+104.9%	6,278,818	50.03%	+17.59pp
	Liberal	John Turner	282	147	135	40	-72.8%	3,516,486	28.02%	-16.32pp
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	282	32	31	30	-6.3%	2,359,915	18.81%	-0.97pp
	No affiliation1		20	-	-	1		39,298	0.31%	+0.29pp
	Rhinoceros	Cornelius the First	88	-	-	-	-	99,178	0.79%	-0.22pp
	Parti nationaliste du Québec2	Denis Monière	74	*	*	-	*	85,865	0.68%	*
	Confederation of Regions	Elmer Knutson	55	*	*	-	*	65,655	0.52%	*
	Green	Trevor Hancock	60	*	*	-	*	26,921	0.21%	*
	Libertarian	Victor Levis	72	-	-	-	-	23,514	0.19%	+0.05pp
	Independent		65	-	1	-	-	22,067	0.18%	+0.04pp
	Social Credit	Ken Sweigard	51	-	-	-	-	16,659	0.13%	-1.56pp
	Communist	William Kashtan	51	-	-	-	-	7,479	0.06%	+x
	Commonwealth of Canada	Gilles Gervais	66	*	*	-	*	7,007	0.06%	*
	Vacant				15
	Total		1,449	282	282	282	-	12,548,862	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca—History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Notes:

"% change" refers to change from previous election.

x – less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

¹ Tony Roman was elected in the Toronto-area riding of York North as a "coalition candidate", defeating incumbent PC MP John Gamble. Roman drew support from Progressive Conservatives who were upset by Gamble's extreme right-wing views.

² Results of the Parti nationaliste du Québec are compared to those of the Union Populaire in the 1980 election.

The Revolutionary Workers League fielded five candidates: Michel Dugré, Katy Le Rougetel, Larry Johnston, Bonnie Geddes and Bill Burgess. All appeared on the ballot as independent or non-affiliated candidates, as the party was unregistered.

Vote and seat summaries

Popular vote
PC			50.03%
Liberal			28.02%
NDP			18.81%
Others			3.14%

Seat totals
PC			74.82%
Liberal			14.18%
NDP			10.64%
Independents			0.35%

Results by province

Party name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NT	YK	Total
	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	19	21	9	9	67	58	9	9	3	4	2	1	211
		Popular Vote:	46.6	68.8	41.7	43.2	47.6	50.2	53.6	50.7	52.0	57.6	41.3	56.8	50.0
	Liberal	Seats:	1	-	-	1	14	17	1	2	1	3	-	-	40
		Vote:	16.4	12.7	18.2	21.8	29.8	35.4	31.9	33.6	41.0	36.4	26.9	21.7	28.0
	New Democratic Party	Seats:	8	-	5	4	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	30
		Vote:	35.1	14.1	38.4	27.2	20.8	8.8	14.1	15.2	6.5	5.8	28.2	16.1	18.8
	No affiliation	Seats:	-	-			1	-			-				1
		Vote:	xx	0.2			0.8	xx			0.4				0.3
Total seats:			28	21	14	14	95	75	10	11	4	7	2	1	282
Parties that won no seats:
	Rhinoceros	Vote:	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	2.4		0.3				1.1	0.8
	Nationaliste	Vote:						2.5							0.7
	Confederation of Regions	Vote:	0.2	2.2	1.3	6.7									0.5
	Green	Vote:	0.6	0.3	0.1		0.3	0.1			0.1				0.2
	Libertarian	Vote:	0.3	0.1		0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1			0.1		4.4	0.2
	Independent	Vote:	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	3.5		0.2
	Social Credit	Vote:	0.2	0.6			0.1	0.2	0.1						0.1
	Communist	Vote:	0.1	0.1		0.1	0.1	0.1							0.1
	Commonwealth of Canada	Vote:						0.2							0.0

1984 Canadian Federal Election Media

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  Map of Canada, showing the results of the 1984 election by riding.

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    NDP: 30 seats

Notes

• Number of parties: 11
  • First appearance: Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Green Party of Canada, Party for the Commonwealth of Canada
  • Final appearance: none
  • First-and-only appearance: Parti nationaliste du Québec