canadian federal election, 1958

The 24th general election was held just nine months after the 23rd and transformed Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's minority into the largest ever majority government in Canadian history. Diefenbaker had called a snap election to capitalize on two factors:

nationally: the Liberals had just chosen a new leader, Lester Pearson, who, though well known around the world because of his work for the United Nations, was not well known by Canadians.

in Quebec: Quebec had been largely Liberal since the Conscription Crisis of 1917, but upon the resignation of former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, the province had no favourite son leader, as they had since 1948, and were open to new options. Diefenbaker formed an alliance with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis and his conservative Union Nationale party allowing Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives to sweep what had been a Liberal stronghold for a generation.

National results

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|Change
Progressive Conservative	align="center"\|John Diefenbaker	align="right"\| 265	align="right"\| 111	align="right"\| 208	align="right"\| +87.4%	align="right"\| 3,908,633	align="right"\| 53.66%	align="right"\| +14.85%
Liberal	align="center"\|Lester B. Pearson	align="right"\| 264	align="right"\| 104	align="right"\| 49	align="right"\| -53.8%	align="right"\| 2,432,953	align="right"\| 33.40%	align="right"\| -7.35%
Cooperative Commonwealth	align="center"\|M.J. Coldwell	align="right"\| 169	align="right"\| 25	align="right"\| 8	align="right"\| -68.0%	align="right"\| 692,668	align="right"\| 9.51%	align="right"\| -1.20%
Liberal-Labour	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 11,956	align="right"\| 0.16%	align="right"\| -
Social Credit	align="center"\|Solon Low	align="right"\| 82	align="right"\| 19	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 188,356	align="right"\| 2.59%	align="right"\| -3.99%
Independent	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 9	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 14,211	align="right"\| 0.20%	align="right"\| -0.87%
Independent Liberal	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 10	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 12,054	align="right"\| 0.17%	align="right"\| -1.25%
Labour Progressive	align="center"\| Tim Buck	align="right"\| 18	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 9,769	align="right"\| 0.13%	align="right"\| +0.02%
Candidats des lecteurs	align="center"\| Ral Caouette	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 8,276	align="right"\| 0.11%	align="right"\| -0.01%
Independent PC	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 5	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 2,097	align="right"\| 0.03%	align="right"\| -0.19%
Socialist	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 1,113	align="right"\| 0.02%	align="right"\| n.a.
Capital familial	align="center"\| H-G Grenier	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 968	align="right"\| 0.01%	align="right"\| n.a.
Radical chrtien	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 687	align="right"\| 0.01%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent SC		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 361	align="right"\| x	align="right"\| -0.04%
Ouvrier canadien	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 243	align="right"\| x	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent Conservative	align="center"\|	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 122	align="right"\| x	align="right"\| n.a.
Total		831	265	265	-	7,284,467	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Sources: http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Notes: "Previous" refers to to standings at previous election, not to standings in the House of Commons at dissolution. n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

Results by province

align="center" colspan="2"\|Party Name	align="center"\|BC	align="center"\|AB	align="center"\|SK	align="center"\|MB	align="center"\|ON	align="center"\|QC	align="center"\|NB	align="center"\|NS	align="center"\|PE	align="center"\|NL	align="center"\|NW	align="center"\|YK	align="center"\|Total
rowspan="2"\|Progressive Conservative	Seats:	align="right"\| 18	align="right"\| 17	align="right"\| 16	align="right"\| 14	align="right"\| 67	align="right"\| 50	align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| 12	align="right"\| 4	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 208
Popular Vote:	align="right"\| 49.4	align="right"\| 59.9	align="right"\| 51.4	align="right"\| 56.7	align="right"\| 56.4	align="right"\| 49.6	align="right"\| 54.1	align="right"\| 57.0	align="right"\| 62.2	align="right"\| 45.2	align="right"\| 54.5	align="right"\| 42.8	align="right"\| 53.7
rowspan="2"\|Liberal	Seats:	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 14	align="right"\| 25	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 5	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 48
Vote:	align="right"\| 16.1	align="right"\| 13.7	align="right"\| 19.6	align="right"\| 21.6	align="right"\| 32.1	align="right"\| 45.6	align="right"\| 43.4	align="right"\| 38.4	align="right"\| 37.5	align="right"\| 54.4	align="right"\| 43.3	align="right"\| 57.2	align="right"\| 33.4
rowspan="2"\| Cooperative Commonwealth	Seats:	align="right"\| 4	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 8
Vote:	align="right"\| 24.5	align="right"\| 4.4	align="right"\| 28.4	align="right"\| 19.6	align="right"\| 10.5	align="right"\| 2.3	align="right"\| 1.8	align="right"\| 4.5	align="right"\| 0.3	align="right"\| 0.2	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 9.5
rowspan="2"\|Liberal-Labour	Seats:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 1
Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.5	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.2
Total Seats		align="right"\|22	align="right"\|17	align="right"\|17	align="right"\|14	align="right"\| 85	align="right"\|75	align="right"\|10	align="right"\|12	align="right"\| 4	align="right"\|7	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|1	align="right"\| 265
colspan="15"\|Parties that won no seats:

Social Credit	Vote:	align="right"\| 9.6	align="right"\| 21.6	align="right"\| 0.4	align="right"\| 1.8	align="right"\| 0.3	align="right"\| 0.6	align="right"\| 0.7	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 2.6
ndependent	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\| 0.6	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.2
Independent Liberal	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.6	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.2	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.2
Labour Progressive	Vote:	align="right"\| 0.4	align="right"\| 0.3	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\| 0.4	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.1
C. des lecteurs	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.4	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.1
Independent PC	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
a href="/encyclopedia/Socialist-Party-of-Canada" title="Socialist Party of Canada">Socialist	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
Capitale familiale	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
Radical chrtien	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
ndependent SC	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
Ouvrier canadien	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx
Ind. Conservative	Vote:	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 2.3	align="right"\|	align="right"\| xx

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

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