Canadian federal election, 1908

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The Canadian federal election of 1908 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in government with a majority government. The Liberals lost four seats and a small share of the popular vote.

Sir Robert Borden's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives won ten additional seats.

National results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
				1904	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Wilfrid Laurier	213	137	133	-2.9%	570,311	48.87%	-2.01%
	Conservative	Robert Borden	207	70	82	+17.1%	524,641	44.95%	+0.55%
	Liberal-Conservative		4	5	3	-40.0%	14,733	1.26%	-0.27%
	Independent		15	1	1	-	16,903	1.45%	+0.45%
	Labour		3	-	1		10,400	0.89%	+0.68%
	Unknown		7	-	-	-	13,478	1.15%	+0.02%
	Socialist		5	-	-	-	6,071	0.52%	+0.35%
	Independent Conservative		2	1	-	-100%	5,314	0.46	-0.04%
	Independent Liberal		5	-	-	-	5,191	0.44%	+0.41%
Total			461	214	220	+2.8%	1,167,042	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Results by province

Party Name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	YK	Total
	Liberal	Seats:	2	4	9	2	37	52	11	12	3	1	133
		Popular Vote (%):	35.9	50.2	56.6	45.4	45.0	53.0	56.2	51.0	50.4	40.2	48.9
	Conservative	Seats:	5	2	1	8	46	12	2	5	1	-	82
		Vote (%):	46.8	38.1	36.8	51.5	49.2	39.5	43.8	44.5	49.6	10.8	45.0
	Liberal-Conservative	Seats:		1			1			1			3
		Vote (%):		6.4			1.5			4.5			1.3
	Independent	Seats:	-	-	-	-	1	-					1
		Vote (%):	8.9	3.7	0.6	0.1	1.8	1.1					1.5
	Labour	Seats:					-	1					1
		Vote (%):					0.7	2.6					0.9
Total Seats			7	7	10	10	85	65	13	18	4	1	220
Parties that won no seats:
	Unknown	Vote (%):	1.3				1.4	1.9				49.0	1.2
	Socialist	Vote (%):	7.1	1.6		2.9	0.2						0.5
	Independent Conservative	Vote (%):			5.9		0.4						0.5
	Independent Liberal	Vote (%):			0.1			1.8					0.4

Preceded by: 1904 federal election

Canadian federal elections

Followed by: 1911 federal election