1887 Canadian Federal Election
February 22, 1887 · Macdonald's Canada · 215 seats, 108 for a majority
Macdonald won a fourth term over new Liberal leader Edward Blake, weathering Quebec's fury at the hanging of Louis Riel and provincial-rights revolts in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Prime Minister before
John A. Macdonald
Conservative
Prime Minister (continued)
John A. Macdonald
Conservative
Government formed
Conservative
majority government
Turnout
70.1%
The result
| Share of House | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John A. Macdonald | 123 | -10 | 343,805 | 47.4% | +7.0 | |
| Liberal | Edward Blake | 79 | +6 | 312,736 | 43.1% | +12.0 |
13 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.
The result by province & territory
Seats won and vote share in each province and territory. Blank cells mean the party did not contest the province; the results table splits allied labels (Liberal-Conservatives, farmers' candidates, independents) that the headline figures group together.
| Conservative | 462.3% | 465.5% | 232.9% | 4543.4% | 2335.6% | 839.4% | 1041.3% | 039.0% | 9640.2% |
| Liberal-Conservative | 222.1% | 217.4% | 95.7% | 89.2% | 26.0% | 410.7% | 07.5% | 277.3% | |
| Liberal | 015.6% | 034.5% | 144.6% | 3746.9% | 2441.7% | 540.9% | 741.9% | 541.8% | 7943.1% |
| Independent Liberal | 05.2% | 10.8% | 33.7% | 13.8% | 111.7% | 62.2% | |||
| Independent Conservative | 018.6% | 012.2% | 00.3% | 35.7% | 00.4% | 31.6% | |||
| Independent | 0<0.1% | 11.3% | 03.4% | 05.8% | 11.2% | ||||
| Nationalist Conservative | 22.4% | 20.5% | |||||||
| Unknown | 03.1% | 06.1% | 06.5% | 00.2% | 03.3% | ||||
| Nationalist | 13.3% | 10.7% | |||||||
| Total seats | 6 | 4 | 5 | 92 | 65 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 215 |