1940 Canadian Federal Election
March 26, 1940 · The King–St. Laurent ascendancy · 245 seats, 123 for a majority
King sought and won a wartime mandate with 179 seats, the largest majority to that date, after Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn's condemnation of his war effort handed him the pretext for dissolution.
Prime Minister before
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal
Prime Minister (continued)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal
Government formed
Liberal
majority government
Turnout
69.9%
The result
| Share of House | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | W. L. Mackenzie King | 179 | +6 | 2,365,979 | 51.3% | +6.6 | |
| National Government | Robert Manion | 39 | 0 | 1,348,260 | 29.2% | -0.6 | |
| New Democracy | William D. Herridge | 10 | -7 | 119,354 | 2.6% | -1.5 | |
| CCF | J. S. Woodsworth | 8 | +1 | 392,615 | 8.4% | -1.1 |
9 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.
| Liberal | 1037.4% | 737.9% | 1243.0% | 1343.5% | 5650.3% | 6264.4% | 554.6% | 1050.4% | 455.3% | 046.4% | 17951.3% |
| National Government | 428.8% | 013.0% | 214.1% | 126.2% | 2240.2% | 018.0% | 543.4% | 140.1% | 044.7% | 153.6% | 3630.0% |
| Conservative | 00.2% | 01.7% | 32.2% | 01.1% | 31.2% | ||||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | 128.4% | 013.0% | 528.7% | 119.6% | 03.8% | 00.7% | 00.4% | 16.0% | 88.6% | ||
| Social Credit | 716.5% | 00.6% | 71.0% | ||||||||
| New Democracy | 00.1% | 318.0% | 03.3% | 00.4% | 00.9% | 31.6% | |||||
| Liberal-Progressive | 24.7% | 10.8% | 30.6% | ||||||||
| Independent Liberal | 0<0.1% | 01.0% | 210.2% | 01.6% | 03.3% | 23.3% | |||||
| Independent | 13.0% | 00.2% | 01.0% | 03.4% | 00.4% | 02.1% | 00.2% | 11.3% | |||
| United Reform Movement | 13.7% | 10.3% | |||||||||
| Unity | 13.3% | 10.3% | |||||||||
| Independent Conservative | 10.9% | 10.2% | |||||||||
| Total seats | 16 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 82 | 65 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 245 |