Socialist Labor Party (Canada)

Defunct political party in Canada

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The Socialist Labor Party was a political party in Canada that was formed in 1898 by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America.[1] It became a national party in the 1930s and had its headquarters in Toronto. The party never won any seats. The party ran only a small number of candidates (listed below), all of whom placed last in their respective elections.[2]

The party dissolved in 2005 following the accidental death of its national secretary, Doug Irving.[3]

## Federal election results

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Election  | Candidate  | Riding  | # of votes

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1945  | Paul Debragh  | Vancouver—Burrard | 140
1945  | Robert Gordon McQuillan  | Vancouver Centre | 319
1949  | William Blackwood Hendry  | Broadview (Toronto) | 271
1953  | Alan Sanderson  | Broadview (Toronto) | 130
1963  | Alan Sanderson  | Broadview (Toronto) | 43
1965  | William Blackwood Hendry  | Broadview (Toronto) | 147
1968  | William Blackwood Hendry  | Broadview (Toronto) | 202

## British Columbia provincial election results

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The party also unsuccessfully contested three provincial elections in British Columbia:

Election  | Candidate  | Riding  | # of votes

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1941  | John Marshall  | Kamloops | 19
1941  | John Alexander Fedoruk  | Vancouver-Burrard | 267
1941  | Eric Thomas Reaville  | Vancouver Centre | 393
1941  | Robert McQuillan  | Vancouver East | 271
1945  | John Alexander Fedoruk  | Vancouver-Burrard | 107
1945  | Horace Warner  | Vancouver Centre | 122
1945  | Robert McQuillan  | Vancouver East | 56
1949  | John Alexander Fedoruk  | Vancouver Centre | 286

## Ontario provincial election results

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The Socialist Labor Party ran candidates in Ontario provincial elections in 1902 and from 1934 until 1967, but never won a seat in the provincial legislature.

Election results  Election year  | No. of
overall votes  | % of
overall total  | No. of
candidates run  | No. of
seats won  | Presence

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1902 | 277  | 0.06%  | 4  |

0 / 98

| Extra-parliamentary
1934 | 1,626  | 0.10%  | 5  |

0 / 90

| Extra-parliamentary
1937 | 2,199  | 0.14%  | 11  |

0 / 90

| Extra-parliamentary
1943 | 740  | 0.06%  | 3  |

0 / 90

| Extra-parliamentary
1945 | 976  | 0.06%  | 4  |

0 / 90

| Extra-parliamentary
1948 | 913  | 0.05%  | 5  |

0 / 125

| Extra-parliamentary
1951 | 371  | 0.02%  | 1  |

0 / 90

| Extra-parliamentary
1955 | 124  | 0.01%  | 1  |

0 / 98

| Extra-parliamentary
1959 | \-  | \-  | \-  |

0 / 98

| Extra-parliamentary
1963 | 103  | 0.008%  | 1  |

0 / 108

| Extra-parliamentary
1967 | 287  | 0.01%  | 1  |

0 / 117

| Extra-parliamentary

## See also

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* List of political parties in Canada
* List of Canadian socialist parties
* Socialism in Canada

## Footnotes

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1. ^ Cronin, Sean (1977). "The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Labor Party of North America". Saothar. 3: 21–33. JSTOR 23195205.
2. ^ "Socialist Labor Party of Canada collection". McMaster.ca. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
3. ^ Forty-Seventh National Convention, Socialist Labor Party