Canada: 1965 Parliamentary Election Results

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Incumbent Prime Minister and party Lester Pearson, Lib. % Popular vote Lib - 40.2; PC - 32.4; NDP - 17.9 New House seat configuration: Lib - 131; PC - 97; NDP - 21 New Prime Minister and party Lester Pearson, Lib. New official opposition leader and party John Diefenbaker, PC Province Progressive Conservative Liberal NDP Social Credit Other Total Seats* Votes Seats Votes Seats Votes Seats Votes Seats Votes Seats Votes Alberta 15 46.6 - 22.4 - 8.2 2 22.5 - 0.2 17 531,427 British Columbia 3 19.2 7 30.0 9 32.9 3 17.4 - 0.5 22 725,948 Manitoba 10 40.7 1 31.0 3 24.0 - 4.3 - 0.1 14 379,440 New Brunswick 4 42.5 6 47.5 - 9.4 - 0.6 - - 10 241,687 Newfoundland - 32.4 7 64.1 - 1.2 - 1.6 - 0.7 7 147,045 Northwest Territories - 39.1 1 56.2 - 4.7 - - - - 1 9,240 Nova Scotia 10 48.6 2 42.0 - 9.1 - - - - 12 417,830 Ontario 25 34.0 51 43.6 9 21.7 - 0.4 - 0.3 85 2,743,783 Prince Edward Island 4 53.9 - 44.1 - 2.0 - - - - 4 71,561 Quebec 8 21.2 57 45.6 - 12.0 9 17.5 1 3.7 75 2,037,312 Saskatchewan 17 48.0 - 24.0 - 26.0 - 1.9 - 0.1 17 402,325 Yukon 1 55.2 - 44.8 - - - - - - 1 5,682 Totals 97 32.4 132 40.2 21 17.9 14 8.3 1 1.2 265 7,713,316 Note: Seats are number of seats won, Votes are a percentage of votes received, except for totals, which represent votes cast in each province.