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Canadian general election, 1921

Canadian federal election, 1921
Canada
← 1917 December 6, 1921 1925 →

235 seats in the 14th Canadian Parliament
118 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  King1919HeadShot.jpg CRERAR.jpg Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg
Leader W. L. Mackenzie King Thomas Crerar Arthur Meighen
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since 1919 1920 1920
Leader's seat Prince
candidate in York North
Marquette Portage la Prairie (lost re-election)
Last election 82 pre-creation 153
Seats won 118 58 49
Seat change Increase36 Increase58 Decrease104
Popular vote 1,285,998 658,976 935,651
Percentage 41.15% 21.09% 29.95%
Swing Increase2.34% Increase21.09% Decrease26.98%

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Prime Minister before election

Arthur Meighen
Conservative

Prime Minister-designate

William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal


Arthur Meighen
Conservative

William Lyon Mackenzie King
Liberal

The Canadian federal election of 1921 was held on December 6, 1921, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 14th Parliament of Canada. The Union government that had governed Canada through the First World War was defeated, and replaced by a Liberal government under the young leader William Lyon Mackenzie King. A new third party, the Progressive Party, won the second most seats in the election.

Since the 1911 election, the country had been governed by the Conservatives, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Borden and then under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen. During the war, the Conservatives had united with the pro-conscription Liberal-Unionists and formed a Union government. A number of Members of Parliament (MPs), mostly Quebecers, stayed loyal to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, however, and they maintained their independence. When Laurier died, he was replaced as leader by the Ontarian Mackenzie King. After the 1919 federal budget, a number of western unionist MPs, who were former Liberals, left the Union government in protest against high tariffs on farm products imposed by the budget. Led by Thomas Alexander Crerar, the group became known as the Progressive Party. Also running were a number of Labour advocates, foremost amongst them J. S. Woodsworth of Winnipeg, who had organized their political movement after the Winnipeg general strike of 1919. Meighen had played a key role in violently suppressing the strikers and this earned him the animosity of organized labour.


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