Canadian federal election of 1980

The Canadian federal election of 1980 is held the February 18th 1980 with an aim of electing the Député S of the 32e legislature to the House of Commons of Canada. It is about the 32e general election since Canadian Confédération in 1867. It is started when the minority government preserving progressist directed by Joe Clark east demolishes on a question of confidence to the communes. At the end of one duration a winter electoral campaign above the average, the Liberal party of Pierre Trudeau is led to the capacity to form a majority Gouvernement.

Context

Clark and its government were attacked for what was perceived like inexperience, for example while promising during the countryside of 1979 to move the Canadian embassy in Israel of Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. Clark had difficult relationships to the fourth party in importance with the House of Commons, the Parti the social Credit. Although it needed the votes of the six deputies of this conservative party and populist based with the Quebec in order to make adopt its bills, it refused to accept the conditions posed by the creditists so that they grant their support to him. Clark had succeeded in convincing a deputy credist, Richard Janelle, crossing the parquet floor to join the caucus progressist-conservative.

The Minister for Finance of Clark, John Crosbie, deposits an austere budget into 1979 which proposes to increase the federal tax on the gasoline of 18 hundreds per Imperial gallon with an aim of reducing the budget deficit of the federal government. The five deputies créditests require that the incomes thus collected be allocated in Quebec, and choose to abstain from the vote of distrust introduced by the deputy néo-democrat Bob Rae. Moreover, several preserving deputies are either abroad, or too patients to present itself the day of the crucial vote, while the liberals assemble to them caucus whole, going juusqu' to make travel several sick liberal deputies by ambulance. The vote shows a defeat of the government to the House of Commons, starting an anticipated election automatically.

The tories of Clark make countryside with the slogan “ The true change deserves a chance ”, but the voters do not want to give a second chance to Clark. The defeat on the vote of the budget after only seven months with the capacity and the defeat at the polls on February 18th cost him the direction of the Party progressist-conservative.

Old the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had announced his resignation as a chief of the Liberal party following his defeat at the polls in 1979. However, no congress with the nomination had been organized during the fall of the government of Clark. Trudeau reconsiders its decision quickly to resign and leads the party to the victory, gaining 34 seats moreover than at the time of the election of 1979 and forming a majority Gouvernement which will last until its defeat in the election of 1984.

The abstention from the deputies creditists at the time of the crucial vote on the budget (whereas the liberals and the NPD vote to make fall the government) contributes to growing perception that the party had become obsolete after the death of their chief Réal Caouette. The Party of the social Credit loses its five seats with the House of Commons, declining quickly after this election.

Results

Country

Malgé to have gained at least a seat in each province and territory, the progressist-conservatives are demolished by the liberals who form a majority government. This is explained largely by the fact that the liberals gained all the seats except one in Quebec as well as a majority of the districts in Ontario, the two most populated provinces of Canada. The critics of the Prime Minister progressist-conservative of Ontario, Bill Davis, vis-a-vis the tax on the gasoline are evoked by the liberals at the time of the countryside, mining the supports with the conservatives in Ontario. The liberals are completely excluded in the west from the Manitoba, revealing a strong geographical division of the population of the country.

Note:

“ % Diff. ” the change indicates since the preceding election

By province

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