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({{decrease}}1.3pp)| election_date = October 26, 1908| elected_members = 11th Canadian Parliament| outgoing_members = 10th Canadian Parliament200x200px)CAnohash}}| leader1 = Wilfrid Laurier| leader_since1 = 1887CAname}}Quebec East{{efn>Laurier was also elected in Ottawa (City of); he chose to sit for Quebec East instead, and resigned as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa (City of).}}| last_election1 = 137 seats, 50.9%| seats1 = 133| seat_change1 = {{decrease}}4| popular_vote1 = 570,311| percentage1 = 48.9%| swing1 = {{decrease}}2.0%200x200px)CAnohash}}| leader2 = Robert Borden| leader_since2 = 1901CAname}}Halifax (federal electoral district)>Halifax{{efnCarleton (Ontario federal electoral district)>Carleton, which he represented during the previous Parliament; he chose to sit for Halifax instead, and resigned as the Member of Parliament for Carleton.}}| last_election2 = 75 seats, 45.9%| seats2 = 85| seat_change2 = {{increase}}10| popular_vote2 = 539,374| percentage2 = 46.2%| swing2 = {{increase}}0.3%| map_image = Canada 1908 Federal Election.svg| map_size = | map_caption = | title = Prime Minister| posttitle = Prime Minister after election| before_election = Wilfrid LaurierCAname}}| after_election = Wilfrid LaurierCAname}}| map2_image = Cdn1908.PNG| map2_size = 380px| map2_caption = The Canadian parliament after the 1908 election}}The 1908 Canadian federal election was held on Monday October 26, 1908 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 11th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister 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.This was the first election in which Alberta and Saskatchewan voted as provinces. Following their creation in 1905, the two new provinces continued to be represented by MP’s initially elected under the old Northwest Territories riding boundaries, some of which straddled the new provincial border. The remainder of the Northwest Territories that previously had Parliamentary representation lost it, although parts of the NWT would gain or re-gain representation after being added to Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec in 1912. A seat would not be created for the NWT itself again (which then contained the modern NWT and Nunavut) until 1949.This is the most recent election in which a prime minister was able to lead their party to a fourth consecutive mandate.

National results

(File:1908 Canadian parliament.svg|center|300px){| class=“wikitable” bgcolor=“CCCCCC“!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!rowspan=2|Party leader!rowspan=2|# of candidates!colspan=3|Seats!colspan=3|Popular vote bgcolor=“CCCCCC”1904ElectedChange#%Change{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}Liberal Party of Canada>Liberal| Wilfrid Laurier 213137 133 -2.9% 570,311 48.87%-2.01pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}Conservative Party of Canada (historical)>Conservative Robert Borden 20770 82 +17.1% 524,641 44.95%+0.55pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}| Liberal-Conservative 45 3-40.0% 14,733 1.26%-0.27pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Independent 151 1- 16,903 1.45%+0.45pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Labour|row-name}}|   3- 1  10,400 0.89%+0.68pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Unknown 7- -- 13,478 1.15%+0.02pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Socialist|row-name}}|   5- -- 6,071 0.52%+0.35pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Independent Conservative 21 1-100% 5,314 0.46%-0.04pp{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent Liberal 5- -- 5,191 0.44%+0.41pp Total!align=“right“| 461!align=“right“|214!align=“right“| 221!align=“right“|+2.8%!align=“right“| 1,167,042!align=“right“| 100% !align=“right“| Sources:www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 {{Webarchivewww.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E >date=2008-12-04 }}

Results by province

{| class=“wikitable” bgcolor=“CCCCCC“! align=“center” colspan=3|Party! align=“center“|BC! align=“center“|AB! align=“center“|SK! align=“center“|MB! align=“center“|ON! align=“center“|QC! align=“center“|NB! align=“center“|NS! align=“center“|PE! align=“center“|YK! align=“center“|Total{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}Liberal| Seats: 2 4 9 2 37 52 11 12 3 1 133 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}| Popular vote (%): 35.9 50.2 56.6 45.4 45.0 53.0 56.2 51.0 50.4 40.2 48.9{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}Conservative| Seats: 5 2 1 8 4612 2 5 1 - 82{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}| Vote (%): 46.8 38.1 36.8 51.5 49.2 39.5 43.8 44.5 49.6 10.8 45.0{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}Liberal-Conservative| Seats:   1     1    1     3{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}| Vote (%):   6.4     1.5     4.5     1.3{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}Independent| Seats: - - - - 1 -         1{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}| Vote (%): 8.9 3.7 0.6 0.1 1.8 1.1         1.5 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Labour|row}} Labour| Seats:         - 1         1{{Canadian party colour|CA|Labour|row}}| Vote (%):        0.7 2.6         0.9 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}} Independent Conservative| Seats:     -   1         1{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}| Vote (%):     5.9   0.4          0.5 Total seats7 7 10 10 8665 13 18 4 1 221Parties that won no seats:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}| Unknown| Vote (%): 1.3       1.4 1.9       49.01.2 {{Canadian party colour|CA|Socialist|row-name}}| Vote (%):7.1 1.6   2.9 0.2         0.5{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}|Independent Liberal| Vote (%):     0.1     1.8         0.4

See also

• List of Canadian federal general elections
• List of political parties in Canada
• 11th Canadian Parliament

Notes

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References

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Further reading

• BOOK, Hopkins, J. Castell, The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1908, 1909, The Annual Review Publishing Company, Toronto,archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_k9g5,

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