265 seats in the House of Commons 133 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
79.2%[1] (0.2pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Lester B. Pearson
John Diefenbaker
Party
Liberal
Progressive Conservative
Leader since
January 16, 1958
December 14, 1956
Leader's seat
Algoma East
Prince Albert
Last election
99 seats, 36.97%
116 seats, 37.22%
Seats won
128
95
Seat change
29
21
Popular vote
3,276,996
2,591,613
Percentage
41.48%
32.80%
Swing
4.51pp
4.42pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Robert N. Thompson
Tommy Douglas
Party
Social Credit
New Democratic
Leader since
July 7, 1961
August 3, 1961
Leader's seat
Red Deer
Burnaby—Coquitlam
Last election
30 seats, 11.61%
19 seats, 13.57%
Seats won
24
17
Seat change
6
2
Popular vote
940,703
1,044,701
Percentage
11.91%
13.22%
Swing
0.30pp
0.35pp
The Canadian parliament after the 1963 election
Prime Minister before election
John Diefenbaker
Progressive Conservative
Prime Minister after election
Lester B. Pearson
Liberal
The 1963 Canadian federal election was held on April 8, 1963 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 26th Parliament of Canada. It resulted in the defeat of the minority Progressive Conservative (Tory) government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, with the Liberals returning to power for the first time in 6 years, where they would remain for twenty of the next twenty-one years (winning every election except the 1979 election until their landslide defeat in 1984). For the Social Credit Party, despite getting their highest ever share of the vote, the party lost 6 seats compared to its high-water mark in 1962.
^Pomfret, R. "Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums". Elections Canada. Elections Canada. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
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