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The 1949 election was the first election in almost thirty years in which the Liberals were not led by William Lyon Mackenzie King who had retired the previous year. Louis St. Laurent's debut as Liberal leader saw the party re-elected with its fourth consecutive majority government winning just under 50% of the vote.

1.1 National

Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	Before	After	% Change	#	%	Change
Liberal	L St. Laurent	259		190		2,878,097	49.15%	+9.37%
Progressive Conservative	George Drew	249		41		1,734,261	29.62%	+2.00%
Cooperative Commonwealth	M.J. Coldwell	181		13		785,910	13.42%	-2.13%
Social Credit	Solon Low	28		10		135,217	2.31%	-1.74%
Independent		29		4		122,110	2.09%	-2.80%
Independent Liberal		15		1		30,407	0.52%	-1.27%
Liberal-Labour		2		1		11,730	0.20%	+0.19%
Liberal-Progressive		1		1		9,192	0.16%	0.04%
Union of Electors		56		0		86,087	1.47%	n.a.
Labour Progressive	Tim Buck	17		0		32,623	0.56%	-1.58%
Independent PC		6		0		8,195	0.14%	-0.14%
Farmer-Labour		1		0		6,161	0.11%	-0.07%
National UnityThe Parti national social chretien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. It was known in English as the Christian National Socialist Party . Arcand was a Quebec-based fascist and anti-semite. An admirer of Adolf Hitler,	Adrien ArcandAdrien Arcand ( 1899 August 2, 1967), was a Quebec born Canadian journalist, fascist and self-proclaimed Canadian fuhrer who led a series of Quebec based far right political movements in the 1930s and 1940s. Arcand published and edited several anti-Semiti	1		0		5,590	0.10%	n.a.
Nationalist		1		0		4,994	0.09%	n.a.
Independent SC		2		0		4,598	0.08%	n.a.
Labour		2		0		415	0.01%	x
Socialist LabourThe Socialist Labour Party was made up of Canadian supporters of the ideas of Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party never won any seats. The party ran only a small number of candidates (listed below), all of whom placed last i		1		0		271	x	n.a.
Total		851		261		5,855,858	100.00%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

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