A Minor Meighen Majority
Here's 1929, where things get more interesting:
By the time of the 1929 election, the Liberals had chosen a new leader. William Lyon Mackenzie King attempted with all his political strength to hang onto the leadership, but a party angry with being reduced to opposition after just a single term soon forced him our. While King himself quickly announced his intention to try and win his old job back, other candidates soon emerged including Thomas Andrew Low, Charles Avery Dunning, Arthur Cardin, and Charles Stewart. Dunning soon emerged as the "compromise candidate," who appealed to Liberals who had supported King's leadership and Liberals who had pushed for his resignation, so on the fourth ballot Dunning managed to defeat King and win the leadership.
The Progressives, meanwhile, all but collapsed. As Dunning had done while serving as Premier of Saskatchewan, he soon managed to attract Progressive farmers to the Liberal banner, including Progressive leader Robert Forke and former leader Thomas Crerar.
With the Progressives out of the picture, the election soon shifted to a two party race between Meighen and Dunning. Thanks to Dunning's weakness in Ontario, where he was seen as less favourable to big business, Meighen managed to squeak out another narrow majority government. However, the Conservatives wouldn't be celebrating long, as just a few weeks after the election came the financial collapse of the Great Depression.
Seat totals: 125 Conservative, 103 Liberal, 7 United Farmers, 3 Liberal-Progressive, 2 Progressive, 2 Labour, 2 Independent, 1 Independent Labour
A Minor Meighen Majority
1929
Here's 1929, where things get more interesting:
By the time of the 1929 election, the Liberals had chosen a new leader. William Lyon Mackenzie King attempted with all his political strength to hang onto the leadership, but a party angry with being reduced to opposition after just a single term soon forced him our. While King himself quickly announced his intention to try and win his old job back, other candidates soon emerged including Thomas Andrew Low, Charles Avery Dunning, Arthur Cardin, and Charles Stewart. Dunning soon emerged as the "compromise candidate," who appealed to Liberals who had supported King's leadership and Liberals who had pushed for his resignation, so on the fourth ballot Dunning managed to defeat King and win the leadership.
The Progressives, meanwhile, all but collapsed. As Dunning had done while serving as Premier of Saskatchewan, he soon managed to attract Progressive farmers to the Liberal banner, including Progressive leader Robert Forke and former leader Thomas Crerar.
With the Progressives out of the picture, the election soon shifted to a two party race between Meighen and Dunning. Thanks to Dunning's weakness in Ontario, where he was seen as less favourable to big business, Meighen managed to squeak out another narrow majority government. However, the Conservatives wouldn't be celebrating long, as just a few weeks after the election came the financial collapse of the Great Depression.
Seat totals: 125 Conservative, 103 Liberal, 7 United Farmers, 3 Liberal-Progressive, 2 Progressive, 2 Labour, 2 Independent, 1 Independent Labour
A Minor Meighen Majority
1929