Canadian federal election, 1925

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October 29, 1925

1926 →

245 seats in the 15th Canadian Parliament
123 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Arthur Meighen	W. L. Mackenzie King	Robert Forke
Party	Conservative	Liberal	Progressive
Leader since	1920	1919	1922
Leader's seat	Grenville candidate in Portage la Prairie	York North (lost re-election)	Brandon
Last election	49	118	58
Seats won	115	100	22
Seat change	66	18	36
Popular vote	1,454,253	1,252,684	266,319
Percentage	46.13%	39.74%	8.45%
Swing	16.18pp	1.41pp	12.65pp

Prime Minister before election

William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal

Prime Minister-designate

William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal

The Canadian federal election of 1925 was held on October 29 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 15th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party formed a minority government. This precipitated the "King-Byng Affair".

The Liberals under Mackenzie King won fewer seats than Arthur Meighen's Conservatives. A third party, the Progressives, which had nominated candidates for the first time in the 1921 election, held the balance of the seats. King decided to hold on to power with the help of the Progressives. The Progressives were closely aligned with the Liberals, and enabled King to form a minority government.

This plan was complicated by the fact that his party won fewer seats than the Conservatives, and that King himself had lost his seat in the House of Commons. Meighen was outraged by King's move, and demanded that King resign from the Prime Minister's office. King asked a Liberal Member of Parliament from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to resign so that he could run in the resulting by-election. Prince Albert was one of the safest seats in Canada for the Liberals, and King won easily.

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