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No.	Portrait	Name (Birth-Death)	Term	Time in Office	Party		Election	Cabinet	President
1		August Bebel (1840-)	July 21st, 1902 - Incumbent	Incumbent		Labour	1902	Bebel M-A-F		Helmut von Gerlach

Canadian Presidential Elections[edit]

1871 Election[edit]

The 1871 election is the first election after the Canada Act of 1870, taking place on June 18th. Due to British Columbian suffrage laws, many were not able to vote prior to the Canada Act, but the liberal suffrage laws under the united Canada allowed hundreds of thousands to vote. The Socialist Labor Party narrowly beat the Free Trade Party by 5,000 votes, which caused some controversy in the country.

1.8 million Canadians voted in the 1871 election.


	Party	Votes	Percentage
Olivier Bedard	Socialist Labor Party	532,046	24.4%
Jean-Docile Masson	Free Trade Party	527,684	24.2%
Narcisse-Fortunat Robitaille	Liberal Party	508,060	23.3%
Alain Ouimet	Patrons of Industry	455,728	20.9%
Pierre Painchaud	Liberal-Conservative Party	156,997	7.2%

1875 Election[edit]

The 1875 election took place amidst the Gold Crisis, which was blamed on the incumbent Socialist Labor Party. Combined with the Gold Crisis and campaigning for universal suffrage, the Liberal Party under Ulric-Joseph Bedard won their first national election.

2.52 million Canadians voted in the 1875 election, which is a 30.3% turnout.


	Party	Votes	Percentage
Ulric-Joseph Bedard	Liberal Party	667,894	26.5%
Jean-Docile Masson	Free Trade Party	567,080	22.5%
Olivier Bedard	Socialist Labor Party	562,039	22.3%
Michael Moodie	Patrons of Industry	395,696	15.7%
Jacques David	Liberal-Conservative Party	320,085	12.7%

1879 Election[edit]

The 1879 election was the first election that took place after the Suffrage Act of 1876, which enacted universal suffrage in Canada. Despite being able to vote, many in the lower class did not go to the polls. During Ulric-Joseph Bedard's governorship, the Liberals collaborated extensively with the SLP to enact the Suffrage Act and the Child Labor Act of 1878. As the First Red Scare was ongoing during this time, Bedard's government was heavily criticized. Additionally, Michael Moodie and the Patrons of Industry positioned themselves as a pro-rural, anti-socialist, conservative party during campaigning. Due to these many factors aligning, the previously negligible Patrons of Industry was able to win the election, placing the first English Governor-General into office.

2.87 million Canadians voted in the 1879 election, which is a 31.1% turnout, a small increase from 1875. In the election, Michael Moodie and the Patrons of Industry recieved 1.8 million votes, which is the first time a candidate has received more than one million votes in a Canadian election.


	Party	Votes	Percentage
Michael Moodie	Patrons of Industry	1,885,841	65.6%
Olivier Bedard	Socialist Labor Party	612,323	21.3%
Ulric-Joseph Bedard	Liberal Party	189,734	6.6%
Jean-Docile Masson	Free Trade Party	129,364	4.5%
Jacques David	Liberal-Conservative Party	54,621	1.9%

1883 Election[edit]

The 1883 election resulted in a landslide for Michael Moodie and the Patrons of Industry. Moodie worked across the aisle to pass legislation such as the Trade Protection Act of 1880 and the Immigration Act of 1882. These laws were very popular amongst the Canadian populace, which allowed Moodie to win a landslide re-election. Additionally, the SLP and the Liberal-Conservative Party were dissolved. Many voters from the LCP voted for Moodie instead.

3.08 million Canadians voted in the 1883 election, which is a 31.5% turnout, a negligible increase from 1879. Moodie once again broke the record for the highest amount of votes (breaking his own record from 1879 at 1.8 million), receiving 2.5 million votes.


	Party	Votes	Percentage
Michael Moodie	Patrons of Industry	2,576,472	83.4%
Ulric-Joseph Bedard	Liberal Party	324,376	10.5%
Jean-Docile Masson	Free Trade Party	185,357	6.0%

1887 Election[edit]

The 1887 election was another landslide for Michael Moodie and the Patrons of Industry, although not as large as last time. Ulric-Joseph Bedard and Michael Taillon's radical liberal politics led many in the middle class to turn against Moodie, and instead defect to the newly founded Radical Party. The Radical Party spoke out against many things that were done in Moodie's second term such as the National Guard Act of 1884, and the vast expansion of the army and navy. Despite the Radicals being Moodie's sole relevant opponent, he has vowed to work with them on civil liberty reforms in the newly established National Guard of Canada.

3.36 million Canadians voted in the 1887 election, which is a 30.8% turnout. Despite nearly 300,000 additional voters compared to the last election, the population has risen more than the voter count, which has led to the turnout only being slightly higher than the 1875 election. Moodie failed to break his vote and percentage record again, but he still did better statistically than he did in the 1879 election.


	Party	Votes	Percentage
Michael Moodie	Patrons of Industry	2,367,386	70.3%
Ulric-Joseph Bedard	Radical Party	761,065	22.6%
Jean-Docile Masson	Free Trade Party	232,361	6.9%