Tuesday January 24th 2006, 7:42 pm
Filed under: Canadian Politics
Filed under: Canadian Politics
Fact of the day: not to take anything away from the Conservatives’ hard-fought victory, but the mandate they won yesterday is the weakest in Canadian history. That is, the seat share of the incoming Conservative government (124 seats out of 308, or 40.3%) is the lowest of any party ever. Here’s the complete list of winning parties and their share of the seats in parliament (ranked from strongest mandate to weakest):
| YEAR | PARTY | SEAT SHARE |
| 1958 | PC | 78.5% |
| 1984 | PC | 74.8% |
| 1940 | LIBERAL | 72.7% |
| 1949 | LIBERAL | 72.5% |
| 1935 | LIBERAL | 69.8% |
| 1878 | CONSERVATIVE | 66.5% |
| 1882 | CONSERVATIVE | 66.2% |
| 1917 | CONSERVATIVE | 65.1% |
| 1904 | LIBERAL | 65.0% |
| 1874 | LIBERAL | 64.6% |
| 1953 | LIBERAL | 64.5% |
| 1900 | LIBERAL | 62.0% |
| 1908 | LIBERAL | 60.2% |
| 1911 | CONSERVATIVE | 60.2% |
| 1993 | LIBERAL | 60.0% |
| 1968 | LIBERAL | 58.7% |
| 1988 | PC | 57.3% |
| 1891 | CONSERVATIVE | 57.2% |
| 1887 | CONSERVATIVE | 57.2% |
| 2000 | LIBERAL | 57.1% |
| 1930 | CONSERVATIVE | 55.9% |
| 1867 | CONSERVATIVE | 55.8% |
| 1896 | LIBERAL | 55.4% |
| 1974 | LIBERAL | 53.4% |
| 1980 | LIBERAL | 52.1% |
| 1997 | LIBERAL | 51.5% |
| 1872 | CONSERVATIVE | 51.5% |
| 1965 | LIBERAL | 49.4% |
| 1921 | LIBERAL | 49.4% |
| 1963 | LIBERAL | 48.7% |
| 1979 | PC | 48.2% |
| 1926 | LIBERAL | 47.3% |
| 1925 | CONSERVATIVE | 47.3% |
| 2004 | LIBERAL | 43.8% |
| 1962 | PC | 43.8% |
| 1957 | PC | 42.3% |
| 1972 | LIBERAL | 41.3% |
| 2006 | CONSERVATIVE | 40.3% |
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