Talk:1867 Canadian federal election

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I reverted vandalism, and I also reverted a change from "the election was held on" to "the election ended on". In my view, and election is the choosing of officials through casting ballots, which happens in Canada generally on one day (with exceptions for advance voting). The period leading up to election day is the campaign. So the campaign ends on a particular day, but the election itself is held on that day. Ground Zero 17:35, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I think there should be mention of the vacancy in Kamouraska due to rioting so therefore there were 181 seats with 65 in Quebec. Shipguy

A book I have just looked through shows some different results. It divided the results into "Government" and "Opposition", giving the government 134,269 votes and the opposition 131,364 votes and 2,584 votes for "other". It also give breakdown by province. I'm wondering if this may be more useful. I'm guessing what they have done is assigned the uknowns with the opposite party of the winner. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

There seem to be errors on this page: According to the Canadian government's website, George Brown ran in the riding of Yarmouth, not Oxford South. 72.12.138.2 (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Unsurity re Map
The present map has a legend which states orange as designating the Anti-Confederates, and depicts Nova Scotia in orange with an orange bar of 18 of the 19 seats. The article states that the Anti-Confederates won 18 of 19 seats in Nova Scotia. However, the orange bar on the map is labeled LIB. Is there a rationale for this, or is it a mistake in need of remedy? 75.154.84.94 (talk) 11:01, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Results
I made these templates a while ago, might as well put them here in case I ever finish them.

"Unknown"
I see that 33% of the vote is attributed to "unknown", and a bunch of seats in one diagram are left a dark grey. What does this mean? Are these votes that we no longer know who they went to, or ballots that were declared illegible at the time, or are they votes that we know didn't go to any of the major parties, but we don't know who they did go to? Or something else altogether? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.109.141 (talk) 21:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Your question refers to two different parts of the article. First, the "unknown" votes refer to candidates who's political party was unknown/lost to history; the Elections Canada websites lists many of the candidates who weren't elected as such. In a first-past-the-post voting system, this happens: a party (or lack thereof) can have a large share of the overall vote, but not wind up with any seats.
 * On the diagram, however, the dark grey seats refer to seats in the House that weren't yet built. Today's chamber has 338 seats but in 1867 there was 181.  TG HL ↗  🍁 17:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)