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239: 129: 553:, which allowed soldiers serving abroad to choose which riding their vote would be counted in or to allow the party for which they voted to select the riding in which the vote would be counted. That allowed government officials to guide the strongly pro-conscription soldiers into voting in those ridings where they would be more useful. Servicemen were given a ballot with the simple choice of "Government" or "Opposition". It is calculated that the Unionist government took 14 seats from the Opposition due to its use of Army votes. 1609: 401: 620: 232: 1623: 24: 383: 372: 337: 329: 200: 533:. Laurier worried that agreeing to Borden's coalition offer would cause that province to abandon the Liberals and perhaps even Canada. Borden proceeded to form a "Unionist" government, and the Liberal Party split over the issue. Many English Canadian Liberal MPs and provincial Liberal parties in English Canada supported the new Unionist government. 595:
Out of 235 seats, 33 were won by acclamationβ€”17 to the Laurier Liberals (all in Quebec) and 16 to the Unionists (all outside Quebec). Two of the Unionist acclamations were for the riding of Halifax, where the only candidates were two Unionists, and where, eleven days earlier, the tragic
572:) to join with them, forming the Unionist government in October 1917. He then dissolved parliament to seek a mandate in the election, which pitted "Government" candidates, running as the Unionist Party, against the anti-conscription faction of the Liberal Party, which ran under the name 546:
and Canadian citizens if they were born in enemy countries and had arrived after 1902. The law also gave female relatives of servicemen the vote. Thus, the 1917 election was the first federal election in which some women were allowed to vote. The other new law was the
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The divisive debate ended with the country divided on linguistic lines. The Liberals won 82 seats, 62 in Quebec, with many other seats won in provinces such as Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Ontario in ridings with significant
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in single-member ridings but Ottawa, Queens, and Halifax each had two members and each of the voters there cast up to two votes as per
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government elected with a strong majority and the largest percentage of the popular vote for any party in Canadian history.
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To ensure victory for conscription, Borden introduced two laws to skew the voting towards the government. The first, the
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populations. The Unionists won 153 seats. The three Unionist won seats in Quebec were all in mainly
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Soon after these measures were passed, Borden convinced a faction of Liberals (using the name
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as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of
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The previous election had been held in 1911 and was won by Borden's
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Turning Points: The Campaigns that Changed Canada 2004 and Before
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Embattled nation: Canada's wartime election of 1917
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Toronto: The Annual Review. 1691: 442:Prime Minister after election 270:Opposition (Laurier Liberals) 1833:Hopkins, J. Castell (1918). 1083: 1078: 1073: 1068: 1063: 1058: 1053: 1048: 1043: 1038: 1033: 1016:) in 1911 election, and for 666: 663: 660: 657: 652: 647: 495:). 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