Canadian Federal Election, 1930 (New Canada)

Previous Election

The  Canadian federal election of 1930  was held on July 28th to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 16th Parliament of Canada.

Results
Despite increasing their share of the vote, the Progressive Party lost a few seats. Some of the biggest growth came from their ally, the Labour Party, who took advantage of the Liberal's urban vote collapse and doubled their seat count. The two parties decided to hold a join party conference in 1932, and voted to merge the two parties as the Progressive Labour Party. Robert Forke decided not to run for election as the joint leader of the party, and in his place the party elected JS Woodsworth, the leader of what was the Labour Party, as the newly unifed party's leader. Therefore, Woodsworth became the 12th prime minster of Canada.

The Conservatives, under leader R.B Bennett, improved on their 1925 preformance and once again became official opposition. They were able to eat up much of the non-socialist urban vote from the Liberals.

The 1930 election was a disaster for the Liberals, and they were reduced to third place with an abysmal 12% of the vote. King resigned as leader of the party, and the Liberals were able to convince Adelard Godbout from Quebec to come on as leader.