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The 1984 Canadian federal election was called on July 4, 1984, and held on September 4 of that year. It resulted in the Progressive Conservative Party winning a large majority government, the first for the party in twenty-one years.

1 Issues

The election was won fought almost entirely on the record of the governing Liberals. The party's new leader John Napier Turner had at first managed to distance himself from the policies of his predecessor Pierre Trudeau, but as the campaign wore on, he became closely attached to these faults.

The Liberal Party had lost favour with Western Canadians, and policies such as the National Energy Policy only aggravated this sentiment. A change from earlier elections was the great disaffection in Quebec with the Liberal government. The Conservatives had not won significant support in that province in decades, but hope for success there was one of the main reasons Brian Mulroney had been chosen as party leader. Mulroney was a fluently bilingual Quebecer who promised a new deal for Quebec. The province, annoyed at being left out of the 1982 repatriation of constitution, shifted dramatically to support him. Other voters turned against the Liberals due to their mounting legacy of patronage and corruption. An especially important issue was that of 79 patronage appointments Trudeau made in the days before leaving office. Turner, despite promising a new way of doing poliitcs, refused to cancel these appointments.

2 Results

The election was a landslide victory for the Progressive Conservatives. They won half the popular vote and 211 out of 282 seats. The party won a majority of the ridings in every province. The New Democratic Party under Ed BroadbentJohn Edward (Ed) Broadbent (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. As a result of the 2004 Canadian election he returned to Parliament as the NDP Member o also did very well: voters in the manufacturing areas of OntarioOntario ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains Capital Toronto Largest City Toronto Area Total % fresh water 4th largest(2nd lgst prov. 1 076 395 km² 14. 7% Population Total (2001) Density Rank and on the prairies gave them thirty seats. At the time, many pundits thought Canada was moving towards the British model of a Labour/Tory division.

All numerical results from Elections CanadaElections Canada is the non-partisan agency of the Government of Canada responsible for the conduct of federal elections and referendums. It is an arms length organization that has strong protections against political interference. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, t's Official Report on the Thirty-Third Election

2.1 National

Party	Party Leader	# of cands	Seats	Popular Vote
Before	After	% Change	#	%	Change
Progressive Conservative	Brian Mulroney	282	100	211	.	6,278,697	50.0	+17.54%
Liberal	John Turner	282	135	40	.	3,516,486	28.0	-16.38%
New Democratic	Ed BroadbentJohn Edward (Ed) Broadbent (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. As a result of the 2004 Canadian election he returned to Parliament as the NDP Member o	282	31	30	.	2,359,915	18.8	-0.86%
Rhinoceros	Cornelius the First	88	0	0		99,178	0.8	-0.23%
Parti nationaliste du Québec	Denis Monière	73	0	0		86,305	0.7	n.a.
Confederation of Regions	Elmer Knutson	55	0	0		65,655	0.5	n.a.
Green	Trevor Hancock	60	0	0		26,921	0.2	n.a.
Libertarian		72	0	0		23,514	0.2	n.a.
Social Credit	Ken Sweigard	51	0	0		16,659	0.1	-1.56%
Communist	William Kashtan	52	0	0		7,609	0.1	+0.01%
Commonwealth	Gilles Gervais	65	0	0		6,849	x	n.a.
Independent	65	1	0		21,508	0.2	-0.27%
No Affiliation	22	0	1		39,425	0.3	n.a.
Vacant	15	282
	1,449	282		12,548,721	100.0
Other elections: 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Party

Party Leader

# of cands

Seats

Popular Vote

Before

After

% Change

Change

Progressive Conservative

Brian Mulroney

282

100

211

6,278,697

50.0

+17.54%

Liberal

John Turner

282

135

3,516,486

28.0

-16.38%

New Democratic

Ed BroadbentJohn Edward (Ed) Broadbent (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. As a result of the 2004 Canadian election he returned to Parliament as the NDP Member o

282

2,359,915

18.8

-0.86%

Rhinoceros

Cornelius the First

99,178

0.8

-0.23%

Parti nationaliste du Québec

Denis Monière

86,305

0.7

n.a.

Confederation of Regions

Elmer Knutson

65,655

0.5

n.a.

Green

Trevor Hancock

26,921

0.2

n.a.

Libertarian

23,514

0.2

n.a.

Social Credit

Ken Sweigard

16,659

0.1

-1.56%

Communist

William Kashtan

7,609

0.1

+0.01%

Commonwealth

Gilles Gervais

6,849

n.a.

Independent

21,508

0.2

-0.27%

No Affiliation

39,425

0.3

n.a.

Vacant

282

1,449

282

12,548,721

100.0

Other elections: 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997

Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

2.2 Province-by-Province breakdown

Party Name		BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NT	YK	Total
Progressive Conservative	Seats:	19	21	9	9	67	58	9	9	3	4	2	1	211
Progressive Conservative	Popular Vote:	46.6	68.8	41.7	43.2	47.6	50.2	53.6	50.7	52.0	57.6	41.3	56.8	50.0
Liberal	Seats:	1			1	14	17	1	2	1	3			40
Liberal	Vote:	16.4	12.7	18.2	21.8	29.8	35.4	31.9	33.6	41.0	36.4	26.9	21.7	28.0
New Democratic	Seats:	8		5	4	13								30
New Democratic	Vote:	35.1	14.1	38.4	27.2	20.8	8.8	14.1	15.2	6.5	5.8	28.2	16.1	18.8
Rhinoceros	Seats:
Rhinoceros	Vote:	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	2.4		0.3				1.1	0.8
Parti nationaliste du Québec	Seats:
Parti nationaliste du Québec	Vote:						2.5							0.7
Confederation of Regions	Seats:
Confederation of Regions	Vote:	0.2	2.2	1.3	6.7									0.5
Green	Seats:
Green	Vote:	0.6	0.3	0.1		0.3	0.1			0.1				0.2
Libertarian	Seats:
Libertarian	Vote:	0.3	0.1		0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1			0.1		4.4	0.2
Social Credit	Seats:
Social Credit	Vote:	0.2	0.6			0.1	0.2	0.1						0.1
Communist	Seats:
Communist	Vote:	0.1	0.1		0.1	0.1	0.1							0.1
Commonwealth	Seats:
Commonwealth	Vote:						0.2							0.0
Other	Seats:					1								1
Other	Vote:	0.2	0.7	0.1	0.4	0.9	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.6	0.1	3.5		0.5

2.3 Notes

Number of Parties: 11
- First appearance: Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Green Party of Canada, Party for the Commonwealth of Canada
- Final appearance: none
- First-and-only appearance: Parti nationaliste du Québec

Preceded by:
1980 Canadian election

Canadian federal elections

Followed by:
1988 Canadian election

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