Canadian federal election, 1887

February 22, 1887

215 seats in the 6th Canadian Parliament 108 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	John A. Macdonald	Edward Blake
Party	Conservative	Liberal
Leader since	1867	1880
Leader's seat	Kingston	Durham West
Last election	133 seats, 40.4%	73 seats, 31.1%
Seats won	123	79
Seat change	10	6
Popular vote	343,805	312,736
Percentage	47.4%	43.1%
Swing	7.0%	12.0%

Prime Minister before election

John A. Macdonald
Conservative

Prime Minister-designate

John A. Macdonald
Conservative

The Canadian federal election of 1887 was held on February 22, 1887, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Canada.

National results

The Canadian parliament after the 1887 election

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1882	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	Conservative	John A. Macdonald	172	94	96	-7.4%	291,138	40.15%	+2.12pp
	Liberal-Conservative	John A. Macdonald	32	42	27	-35.7%	52,667	7.26%	-5.30pp
	Liberal	Edward Blake	183	73	79	+8.2%	312,736	43.13%	+12.03pp
	Independent Liberal		9	2	6	+150%	15,695	2.16%	+1.05pp
	Independent Conservative		8	1	3	+200%	11,345	1.56%	+1.39pp
	Independent		10	1	1	0%	8,984	1.24%	-0.35pp
	Nationalist Conservative		2	1	2	+100%	3,522	0.49%	+0.28pp
	Unknown		18	-			24,172	3.33%	-22.08pp
	Nationalist		6	*	1	*	4,784	0.66%	*
Total			440	213	215	-3.8%	725,043	100%	-
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

Acclamations:

The following Members of Parliament were elected by acclamation:

Party name			BC	NW	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	Total
	Conservative	Seats:	4	4	2	45	23	8	10	-	96
	Conservative	Popular vote (%):	62.3	65.5	32.9	43.4	35.6	39.4	41.3	39.0	40.2
	Liberal-Conservative	Seats:	2		2	9	8	2	4	-	27
	Liberal-Conservative	Vote (%):	22.1		17.4	5.7	9.2	6.0	10.7	7.5	7.3
	Liberal	Seats:	-	-	1	37	24	5	7	5	79
	Liberal	Vote (%):	15.6	34.5	44.6	46.9	41.7	40.9	41.9	41.8	43.1
	Independent Liberal	Seats:			-	1	3	1		1	6
	Independent Liberal	Vote (%):			5.2	0.8	3.7	3.8		11.7	2.2
	Independent Conservative	Seats:	-	-		-	3		-		3
	Independent Conservative	Vote (%):	18.6	12.2		0.3	5.7		0.4		1.6
	Independent	Seats:				-	1	-	-		1
	Independent	Vote (%):				xx	1.3	3.4	5.8		1.2
	Nationalist Conservative	Seats:					2				2
	Nationalist Conservative	Vote (%):					2.4				0.5
	Unknown	Seats:				-	-				0
	Unknown	Vote (%):				3.1	6.1	6.5	0.2		3.3
	Nationalist	Seats:					1				1
	Nationalist	Vote (%):					3.3				0.7
Total seats			6	4	5	92	65	16	21	6	215

xx – less than 0.05% of the popular vote

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