canadian federal election, 1974

The Canadian federal election of 1974 was held on July 8 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. The governing Liberal Party won its first majority government since 1968, and gave Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau his third term. The Progressive Conservatives, led by Robert Stanfield, did well in the Atlantic provinces, and in the West, but the Liberal support in Ontario and Quebec ensured a majority Liberal government. A key issue in the election was controlling spiralling inflation. Stanfield had proposed a "90-day wage and price freeze" to break the momentum of inflation. Trudeau had ridiculed this policy as an intrusion on the rights of businesses and employees to set or negotiate their own prices and wages with the catch-phrase, "Zap! You're frozen!" In 1975, Trudeau introduced his own wage and price control system under the auspices of the "Anti-Inflation Board". The New Democratic Party, led by David Lewis, lost less than two-and-a-half percentage points in popular vote, but almost half of their seats in the House of Commons. The Social Credit Party of Canada, led by Real Caouette, continued to lose ground, and fell to 11 seats, one short of the number required to be recognized as a party in the House of Commons (and therefore qualify for research funds and parliamentary committee memberships). This status was nonetheless extended to the party by the governing Liberals. One seat was won in New Brunswick by independent candidate Leonard Jones. Jones, the former mayor of Moncton, had secured the Progressive Conservative nomination, but PC leader Stanfield refused to sign Jones' nomination papers because he was a vocal opponent of official bilingualism, which the PC Party supported. Jones had opposed providing services in french in the City of Moncton even though 30% of the city's population was francophone. Jones ran and won as an independent. After the election, Social Credit leader Caouette invited Jones to join the Socred caucus, which would have given that party enough members for official status. Caouette justified the invitation on the basis that Jones agreed with providing bilingual education at the primary school level. Jones declined Caouette's invitation, and sat as an independent.

National results

owspan="2" colspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous¹	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|% Change	Liberal	Pierre Trudeau	align="right"\| 264	align="right"\|109	align="right"\| 141	align="right"\|+29.4%	align="right"\| 4,102,853	align="right"\| 43.15%	align="right"\|+4.73%	Progressive Conservative	Robert Stanfield	align="right"\|264	align="right"\|107	align="right"\| 95	align="right"\|-11.2%	align="right"\| 3,371,319	align="right"\| 35.46%	align="right"\|+0.44%	New Democratic	David Lewis	align="right"\|262	align="right"\|31	align="right"\| 16	align="right"\|-48.4%	align="right"\|1,467,748	align="right"\|15.44%	align="right"\|-2.40%	Social Credit	Real Caouette	align="right"\|152	align="right"\| 15	align="right"\| 11	align="right"\|-26.7%	align="right"\| 481,231	align="right"\| 5.06%	align="right"\|-2.49%	colspan="2"\|Independent	align="right"\|63	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|38,745	align="right"\|0.41%	align="right"\|-0.18%	colspan="2"\|Unknown	align="right"\|28	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|17,124	align="right"\|0.18%	align="right"\|-0.15%	Marxist-Leninist	Hardial Bains	align="right"\|104	align="right"\|	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 16,261	align="right"\|0.17%	align="right"\|n.a.	Communist	William Kashtan	align="right"\|69	align="right"\|	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\|12,100	align="right"\| 0.13%	align="right"\|n.a.	colspan="2"\| No affiliation	align="right"\|3	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|-100%	align="right"\|551	align="right"\|0.01%	align="right"\|-0.24%
colspan="3"\|Total	align="right"\| 1,209	align="right"\|264	align="right"\|264	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|9,507,932	align="right"\|100.00%	align="right"\|
align="center" colspan="10"\|Sources: http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Note: ¹ "Previous" refers to the results of the previous election, not the party standings in the House of Commons prior to dissolution.

Results by province

align="center" colspan="3"\|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"\|NT	align="center"\|YK	align="center"\|Total	rowspan="2"\|Liberal	Seats:	align="right"\|8	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|3	align="right"\|2	align="right"\|55	align="right"\|60	align="right"\|6	align="right"\|2	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|4	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|141	Popular Vote (%):	align="right"\|33.8	align="right"\|24.8	align="right"\|30.7	align="right"\|27.4	align="right"\|45.1	align="right"\|54.1	align="right"\|47.2	align="right"\|40.7	align="right"\|46.2	align="right"\|46.7	align="right"\|24.7	align="right"\|33.5	align="right"\|43.2	rowspan="2"\|Progressive Conservative	Seats:	align="right"\|13	align="right"\|19	align="right"\|8	align="right"\|9	align="right"\|25	align="right"\|3	align="right"\|3	align="right"\|8	align="right"\|3	align="right"\|3	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|95	Vote:	align="right"\|41.9	align="right"\|61.2	align="right"\|36.4	align="right"\|47.7	align="right"\|35.1	align="right"\|21.2	align="right"\|33.0	align="right"\|47.5	align="right"\|49.1	align="right"\|43.6	align="right"\|33.2	align="right"\|47.1	align="right"\|35.5	rowspan="2"\|New Democratic	Seats:	align="right"\|2	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|2	align="right"\|2	align="right"\|8	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|16	Vote:	align="right"\|23.0	align="right"\|9.3	align="right"\|31.5	align="right"\|23.5	align="right"\|19.1	align="right"\|6.6	align="right"\|8.7	align="right"\|11.2	align="right"\|4.6	align="right"\|9.5	align="right"\|42.1	align="right"\|19.5	align="right"\|15.4
rowspan="2"\|Social Credit	Seats:	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|11	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|	align="right"\|-	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|11
Vote:	align="right"\|1.2	align="right"\|3.4	align="right"\|1.1	align="right"\|1.1	align="right"\|0.2	align="right"\|17.1	align="right"\|2.9	align="right"\|0.4	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|5.1	rowspan="2"\|Independent	Seats:	align="right"\|-	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"\|1	Vote:	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.2	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.3	align="right"\|8.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.4
colspan="3"\|Total seats:	align="right"\|23	align="right"\|19	align="right"\|13	align="right"\|13	align="right"\|88	align="right"\|74	align="right"\|10	align="right"\|11	align="right"\|4	align="right"\|7	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|264
olspan="16"\|Parties that won no seats:	Unknown	Vote:	align="right"\|xx	align="right"\|1.0.	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.3	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.2	Marxist-Leninist	Vote:	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.4	align="right"\|xx	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.2	Communist	Vote:	align="right"\|0.3	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|0.1	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|	align="right"\|0.1	No affiliation	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

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

Notes

Number of Parties: 6

First appearance: Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
Final appearance: none

See: 30th Canadian parliament for a full list of MPs elected in this election.

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