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The timeline of elections in Canada covers all the provincial, ... Canadian electoral calendar; List of elections in the Province of Canada (pre-Confederation)
Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives are re-elected and win the largest majority to date in Canadian history, defeating the Liberals and their new leader, Lester Pearson. Social Credit loses all its seats (including leader S. E. Low 's Peace River ) and the CCF loses most of its own (including leader M. J. Coldwell 's Rosetown ...
The Gallagher Index of disproportionality for Canadian federal elections in that period has ranged from 6.26 to 20.91, in line with some of its comparables — Australia, New Zealand (prior to adoption of MMP in 1992) and United States (presidential electoral college), but significantly higher than many others, for example Belgium, Germany ...
On September 25, 2019, Minister of Justice Sonia LeBel presented Bill 39, An Act to establish a new electoral system which aims to replace the First-past-the-post electoral system in favour of a mixed-member proportional representation system. According to the bill, the National Assembly would have kept 125 members.
This is a list of Canadian electoral calendars. ... Timeline of Canadian elections; List of years in Canada This page was last edited on 6 December 2024, at 23:43 ...
August 24: By-election in Electoral Area E, Central Coast Regional District [36] September 10: Municipal by-election in Thompson, Manitoba and the School District of Mystery Lake [37] September 14: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools trustee by-election [38] and municipal by-election in Canal Flats, British Columbia; September 16:
This is a list of the Canadian electoral districts used between 2013 and 2023. According to the 2023 Representation Orders, this list of electoral districts would be adopted for any general elections called before April 23, 2024. [1] During this period, the House of Commons of Canada had 338 seats. [2]
The 1950s saw the emergence of a "pan-Canadian system", which lasted until the 1990s. The 1993 election — categorized by Clarkson as an electoral "earthquake" which "fragmented" the party system, saw the emergence of regional politics within a four party-system, whereby various groups championed regional issues and concerns.