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25th General Election, 1962
26th General Election, 1963
27th General Election, 1965
28th General Election, 1968 including provincial distribution
29th General Election, 1972 including provincial distribution
30th General Election, 1974 including provincial distribution
31st General Election, 1979 including provincial distribution

1 Number of Seats Won

Party	1962	1963	1965	1968	1972	1974	1979
Liberal	100	128	131	155	109	141	114
Progressive Conservative	114	93	95	72	107	95	136
CCF/ NDP	19	24	21	22	31	16	26
Social Credit	30	17	5	-	15	11	6
Ralliement créditiste(+)			9	14
Independent			1	1	2	1
Independent PC			1
Total	263	262	263	264	264	264	282

2 Percentage of Popular Vote

Party	1962	1963	1965	1968	1972	1974	1979
Liberal	37.17	41.74	40.18	45.49	38.42	43.15	40.11
Progressive Conservative	37.22	32.72	32.41	31.36	35.02	35.46	35.89
CCF/ NDP	13.57	13.24	17.91	16.96	17.83	15.44	17.88
Social Credit	11.60	11.92	3.66	0.85	7.55	5.06	4.61
Ralliement créditiste(+)			4.66	4.43
Labour Progressive/ Communist	0.08	0.05	0.06	0.05		0.13	0.08
RhinocerosThe Rhinoceros Party of Canada also known as the Rhinos was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Operating within the Canadian tradition of political satire, the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo was to "promise nothing", altho			x	0.07	0.02		0.55
Independent	0.10	0.07	0.68	0.45	1.16	0.59	0.45
Independent Liberal	0.14	0.19	0.22	0.21
Independent PC	0.04	0.02	0.17	0.03
Independent Conservative		0.01	x	0.01
Independent SC		0.01	0.01
H-G Grenier (various)Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada. Grenier, who listed his occupation variously as clerk, real estate broker, and economic research	0.01		0.01	x
Candidat liberal des electeurs	0.02	0.01
Co-operative BuildersIn the 1962 Canadian election, Edgar-Bernard Charron, a plumber, sought election as a Co-operative Builders of Canada candidate in the south-western Ontario riding of Essex West. He placed last, winning only 261 votes, or 0. 7% of the total. See also List	x
All Canadian	x
Ouvrier independant	x	0.01
Socialist Labour		x	x	x
Nationalist		0.01
Ouvrier independant			0.01
Republicain/Republican			x	x
Progressive Workers Movement			x
New Canada			0.01	x
National Socialist				x
Démocratisation Économique				0.03
Franc Lib				0.03
Reform				0.01
Marxist-Leninist						0.17	0.12
Union Populaire							0.17
Libertarian							0.14

x - indicates less than 0.005% of the popular vote.

(+) Following the 1963 election, the Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party split to form the Ralliement des créditistes. This party changed its name to Ralliement créditiste 1967, and rejoined Social Credit in 1971.

See also:

By-elections of the 31st Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 30th Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 29th Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 28th Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 27th Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 26th Canadian Parliament
By-elections of the 25th Canadian Parliament

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