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词条 1917 Canadian federal election
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  1. National results

  2. Vote and seat summaries

  3. Results by province

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Further reading

  7. See also

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| election_name = Canadian federal election, 1917
| country = Canada
| flag_year = 1868
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| party_colour =
| party_name = no
| previous_election = 1911 Canadian federal election
| previous_year = 1911
| next_election = 1921 Canadian federal election
| next_year = 1921
| seats_for_election = 235 seats in the House of Commons | majority_seats = 118
| turnout = 75.0%[1] ({{increase}}4.8pp)
| election_date = December 17, 1917
| next_mps = 14th Canadian Parliament
| previous_mps = 12th Canadian Parliament
| image1 =
| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|CA|Unionist|nohash}}
| leader1 = Robert Borden
| leader_since1 = 1901
| party1 = {{Canadian party colour|CA|Unionist|name}}
| leaders_seat1 = Halifax
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| last_election1 = 132
| seats1 = 153
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}21
| popular_vote1 = 1,070,694
| percentage1 = 56.93%
| swing1 = {{increase}}8.38pp
| image2 =
| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|CA|Laurier Liberals|nohash}}
| leader2 = Wilfrid Laurier
| leader_since2 = 1887
| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|CA|Laurier Liberals|name}}
| leaders_seat2 = Quebec East
| last_election2 = 85
| seats2 = 82
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}3
| popular_vote2 = 729,756
| percentage2 = 38.80%
| swing2 = {{decrease}}7.02pp
| map_image = Canada 1917 Federal Election.svg
| map_size =
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| title = Prime Minister
| posttitle = Prime Minister-designate
| before_election = Robert Borden
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The 1917 Canadian federal election (sometimes referred to as the khaki election) was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1917). The election resulted in Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's Unionist government elected with a strong majority and the largest percentage of the popular vote for any party in Canadian history.

The previous election had been held in 1911 and was won by Borden's Conservatives. Under the law, Canada should have had an election in 1916. However, citing the emergency of the First World War, the government postponed the election largely in hope that a coalition government could be formed, as existed in Britain.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, head of the Liberal Party of Canada, refused to join the coalition over the issue of conscription, which was strongly opposed in the Liberal heartland of Quebec. Laurier worried that agreeing to Borden's coalition offer would cause that province to abandon the Liberals and perhaps even Canada. Borden proceeded to form a "Unionist" government, and the Liberal Party split over the issue. Many English Canadian Liberal MPs and provincial Liberal parties in English Canada supported the new Unionist government.

To ensure victory for conscription, Borden introduced two laws to skew the voting towards the government. The first, the Wartime Elections Act, disenfranchised conscientious objectors and Canadian citizens if they were born in enemy countries and had arrived after 1902. The law also gave female relatives of servicemen the vote. Thus, the 1917 election was the first federal election in which some women were allowed to vote. The other new law was the Military Voters Act, which allowed soldiers serving abroad to choose which riding their vote would be counted in or to allow the party for which they voted to select the riding in which the vote would be counted. That allowed government officials to guide the strongly pro-conscription soldiers into voting in those ridings where they would be more useful. Servicemen were given a ballot with the simple choice of "Government" or "Opposition".

Soon after these measures were passed, Borden convinced a faction of Liberals (using the name Liberal-Unionists) along with Gideon Decker Robertson, who was described as a "Labour" Senator (but was unaffiliated with any Labour Party) to join with them, forming the Unionist government in October 1917. He then dissolved parliament to seek a mandate in the election, which pitted "Government" candidates, running as the Unionist Party, against the anti-conscription faction of the Liberal Party, which ran under the name Laurier Liberals.

The divisive debate ended with the country divided on linguistic lines. The Liberals won 82 seats, 62 in Quebec, with many other seats won in provinces such as Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Ontario in ridings with significant French Canadian populations. The Unionists won 153 seats. The three Unionist won seats in Quebec were all in mainly English-speaking ridings. That led to the Francœur Motion in January 1918.

Out of 235 seats, 33 were won by acclamation—17 to the Laurier Liberals (all in Quebec) and 16 to the Unionists (all outside Quebec). Two of the Unionist acclamations were for the riding of Halifax, where the only candidates were two Unionists, and where, eleven days earlier, the tragic Halifax Explosion had taken place.

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National results

15382
GovernmentOpposition
PartyParty leader# of
candidates
SeatsPopular vote
1911Elected% Change#%pp Change{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}Government (Unionist)1Robert Borden211132153+15.9%1,070,69456.93%+8.38{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}Opposition (Laurier Liberals)1Wilfrid Laurier2138582-3.5%729,75638.80%-7.02{{Canadian party colour|CA|Labour|row-name}} 221--100%34,5581.84%+0.91{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Opposition-Labour 8*-*22,2511.03%*{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent 5---12,0230.64%-0.15{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent Liberal 2*-*7,7530.41%-{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Unknown 12---3,7730.20%-1.78{{Canadian party colour|CA|Non-Partisan League|row-name}} 3*-*2,8630.15%-
Total 476221235+5.9%1,880,702100% 
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867
Notes:
  • Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

1 % change for Government compared to Conservative Party (including Liberal-Conservatives) in 1911 election, and for Opposition to Liberal Party.

Vote and seat summaries

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Results by province

Party nameBCABSKMBONQCNBNSPEYKTotal{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}Government Seats:13 1116 14 743 712 2 1153{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}} Popular Vote (%):68.461.074.179.762.324.759.448.449.854.356.9{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}Opposition Seats:- 1- 1862442- 82 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}} Vote (%):25.6 30.6 23.4 20.332.173.440.645.550.245.738.8
Total seats13 12 16 15 8265 11 16 41235
Parties that won no seats:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Labour|row-name}} Vote (%):5.60.8    2.3 0.3   6.1   1.8 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Opposition-Labour Vote (%): 5.02.6   1.2        1.0{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent Vote (%):  0.5    1.20.5       0.6 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent Liberal Vote (%):      0.8 0.5        0.4 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Unknown Vote (%):0.4       0.1 0.7        0.2 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Non-Partisan Vote (%):  2.2                0.2

See also

{{Portal|Canadian politics}}
  • List of Canadian federal general elections
  • List of political parties in Canada
  • 11th Canadian Parliament

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums|url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=turn&document=index&lang=e|accessdate=10 March 2019}}

Further reading

  • Argyle, Ray. Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before (2011) [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B005233WJG/ excerpt and text search] ch 6

See also

  • 13th Canadian Parliament
  • Conscription crisis of 1917
  • Khaki election
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3 : 1917 elections in Canada|Canadian federal elections by year|December 1917 events

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