1925 Canadian Federal Election
October 29, 1925 · War & fragmentation · 245 seats, 123 for a majority
Arthur Meighen's Conservatives won the most seats, 115 to 100, but Mackenzie King refused to resign, governing with Progressive support despite having lost his own seat. The arrangement collapsed within a year into the King–Byng affair.
Prime Minister before
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal
Prime Minister (continued)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal
Government formed
Liberal
minority government
Turnout
66.4%
Note: the Conservative party won the most seats, but William Lyon Mackenzie King formed the government — under Westminster convention the incumbent Prime Minister may meet the House and govern with its confidence, whatever the seat count.
The result
| Share of House | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Arthur Meighen | 115 | +66 | 1,454,253 | 46.1% | +16.2 | |
| Liberal | W. L. Mackenzie King | 100 | -18 | 1,252,684 | 39.7% | -1.4 | |
| Progressive | Robert Forke | 22 | -36 | 266,319 | 8.4% | -12.7 | |
| Independent Labour | J. S. Woodsworth | 2 | -1 | 56,987 | 1.8% | -0.9 | |
| United Farmers of Alberta | Herbert Greenfield | 2 | 0 | 8,053 | 0.3% | -0.5 |
4 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 | 1049.3% | 331.8% | 025.4% | 741.3% | 6756.3% | 434.2% | 1059.7% | 1156.4% | 233.1% | 159.4% | 11546.1% |
| Liberal | 334.7% | 427.6% | 1541.9% | 120.3% | 1230.9% | 5959.6% | 137.0% | 341.9% | 252.0% | 040.6% | 10039.7% |
| Progressive | 06.1% | 726.5% | 631.8% | 725.1% | 28.8% | 228.5% | |||||
| Labour | 06.3% | 06.1% | 29.6% | 01.2% | 00.2% | 01.6% | 21.8% | ||||
| Independent | 12.6% | 00.6% | 11.4% | 00.8% | 20.5% | ||||||
| United Farmers of Alberta | 25.0% | 20.3% | |||||||||
| Independent Liberal | 13.8% | 11.0% | |||||||||
| Independent Conservative | 11.4% | 10.5% | |||||||||
| Total seats | 14 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 82 | 65 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 245 |