1974 Canadian Federal Election
July 8, 1974 · The Trudeau years · 264 seats, 133 for a majority
Trudeau regained his majority by campaigning against Robert Stanfield's proposed wage and price controls ('Zap, you're frozen'), then imposed controls himself the following year.
Prime Minister before
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal
Prime Minister (continued)
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal
Government formed
Liberal
majority government
Turnout
71.0%
The result
Liberal
Pierre Trudeau · +32 seats · 43.1%
141
seats
Progressive Conservative
Robert Stanfield · -11 seats · 35.5%
95
seats
New Democratic
David Lewis · -15 seats · 15.4%
16
seats
Social Credit
Réal Caouette · -4 seats · 5.1%
11
seats
1 further seat 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
BC 8 (33.8%)AB 0 (24.8%)SK 3 (30.7%)MB 2 (27.4%)ON 55 (45.1%)QC 60 (54.1%)NB 6 (47.2%)NS 2 (40.7%)PE 1 (46.2%)NL 4 (46.7%)NT 0 (24.7%)YT 0 (33.5%)
141
seats
Progressive Conservative
BC 13 (41.9%)AB 19 (61.2%)SK 8 (36.4%)MB 9 (47.7%)ON 25 (35.1%)QC 3 (21.2%)NB 3 (33.0%)NS 8 (47.5%)PE 3 (49.1%)NL 3 (43.6%)NT 0 (33.2%)YT 1 (47.1%)
95
seats
New Democratic
BC 2 (23.0%)AB 0 (9.3%)SK 2 (31.5%)MB 2 (23.5%)ON 8 (19.1%)QC 0 (6.6%)NB 0 (8.7%)NS 1 (11.2%)PE 0 (4.6%)NL 0 (9.5%)NT 1 (42.1%)YT 0 (19.5%)
16
seats
Social Credit
BC 0 (1.2%)AB 0 (3.4%)SK 0 (1.1%)MB 0 (1.1%)ON 0 (0.2%)QC 11 (17.1%)NB 0 (2.9%)NS 0 (0.4%)NL 0 (0.1%)
11
seats
Independent
BC 0 (0.1%)AB 0 (0.2%)SK 0 (0.1%)MB 0 (0.1%)ON 0 (0.1%)QC 0 (0.3%)NB 1 (8.1%)NL 0 (0.1%)
1
seats
Total seats
264