dec 17, 1917 - Federal Election
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The 1917 Canadian federal election was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Canada. The election resulted in Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's Unions government elected with an extremely strong majority and the biggest percentage of the popular vote for any party in Canadian history. Citing the emergency of the First World War, the government postponed the election largely in hope that a coalition government could be formed, as existed in Britain. Borden came to form a "Unionist" government, and the Liberal Party split over the issue. A lot of English Canadian Liberal MPs and provincial Liberal parties in English Canada supported the new Unionist government. To ensure victory for conscription, Borden introduced two laws to skew the voting towards the government. The other new law was the Military Voters Act, which allowed soldiers serving abroad to choose which riding their vote would be counted in or to allow theparty for which they voted to select the riding in that the vote would be counted.
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