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New Conservative Government has Weakest Mandate in Canadian History
Tuesday January 24th 2006, 7:42 pm
Fact of the day: not to take anything away from the Conservatives’
hard-fought victory, but the mandate they won yesterday is the weakest in
Canadian history. That is, the seat share of the incoming Conservative
government (124 seats out of 308, or 40.3%) is the lowest of any party
ever. Here’s the complete list of winning parties and their share of the
seats in parliament (ranked from strongest mandate to weakest):

YEAR PARTY SEAT SHARE
1958 PC  78.5%
1984 PC  74.8%
1940 LIBERAL 72.7%
1949 LIBERAL  72.5%
1935 LIBERAL 69.8%
1878 CONSERVATIVE  66.5%
1882 CONSERVATIVE  66.2%
1917 CONSERVATIVE  65.1%
1904 LIBERAL  65.0%
1874  LIBERAL  64.6%
1953 LIBERAL  64.5%
1900 LIBERAL 62.0%
1908 LIBERAL  60.2%
1911 CONSERVATIVE  60.2%
1993 LIBERAL  60.0%
1968 LIBERAL  58.7%
1988 PC  57.3%
1891  CONSERVATIVE  57.2%
1887  CONSERVATIVE 57.2%
2000 LIBERAL  57.1%
1930  CONSERVATIVE 55.9%
1867  CONSERVATIVE  55.8%
1896 LIBERAL  55.4%
1974 LIBERAL  53.4%
1980 LIBERAL  52.1%
1997 LIBERAL  51.5%
1872 CONSERVATIVE  51.5%
1965  LIBERAL 49.4%
1921  LIBERAL 49.4%
1963  LIBERAL  48.7%
1979  PC  48.2%
1926 LIBERAL  47.3%
1925 CONSERVATIVE  47.3%
2004 LIBERAL 43.8%
1962 PC 43.8%
1957 PC  42.3%
1972 LIBERAL  41.3%
2006 CONSERVATIVE  40.3%