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The number of seats has increased steadily over time, from 180 for the first election to the current total of 338. The current federal government structure was established in 1867 by the Constitution Act. For federal by-elections (for one or a few seats as a result of retirement, etc.) see List of federal by-elections in Canada.
March 19 – NDP candidate Craig Scott [11] wins a federal by-election in Toronto—Danforth. [ 12 ] March 22 – Vaughn Solomon Schofield becomes lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan , replacing Gordon Barnhart .
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The federal election date must be set on a Monday (or Tuesday if the Monday is a statutory holiday). The first two elections, the 1867 election and the 1872 election, took place over several weeks. The 1872 election was both the second shortest and the longest campaign in history.
A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for public office without a reasonable chance of winning. While there is no generally accepted "number" of times a candidate must run before being considered "perennial", contemporary sources note that two or three failed candidacies, followed by another attempt, qualifies a candidate as perennial.
Canada's electoral system, sometimes referred to as a "first-past-the-post" system, is formally referred to as a single-member plurality system.The candidate with the most votes in a riding wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its member of Parliament (MP).