1891 Canadian Federal Election
The old flag, the old policyMarch 5, 1891 · Macdonald's Canada · 215 seats, 108 for a majority
'The old flag, the old policy, the old leader': Macdonald's last campaign, fought against Liberal 'unrestricted reciprocity' with the loyalty cry, won him a fifth majority. He died three months later.
Prime Minister before
John A. Macdonald
Conservative
Prime Minister (continued)
John A. Macdonald
Conservative
Government formed
Conservative
majority government
Turnout
64.4%
The result
| Share of House | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John A. Macdonald | 117 | -5 | 376,518 | 48.6% | +1.2 | |
| Liberal | Wilfrid Laurier | 90 | +10 | 350,512 | 45.2% | +2.1 |
8 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 | 571.6% | 481.0% | 112.6% | 3942.2% | 2445.4% | 1048.9% | 1241.9% | 248.5% | 9743.0% |
| Liberal-Conservative | 1 | 340.5% | 75.3% | 33.0% | 23.7% | 410.8% | 205.6% | ||
| Liberal | 028.4% | 019.0% | 146.9% | 4449.1% | 3345.9% | 441.3% | 543.6% | 341.0% | 9045.2% |
| Independent Conservative | 11.3% | 25.9% | 31.9% | ||||||
| Independent | 10.7% | 11.2% | 03.2% | 20.8% | |||||
| Nationalist | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Independent Liberal | 02.9% | 110.5% | 10.7% | ||||||
| Nationalist Conservative | 10.7% | 10.2% | |||||||
| Total seats | 6 | 4 | 5 | 92 | 65 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 215 |