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The conduct of Canadian Governor-General Lord Byng in high-handedly letting Meighen, not King, form a government earlier this summer was as much an issue in the campaign as trade and farm policies. Meighen is defeated in his own constituency and will shortly resign as party leader.

Sept. 14, 1926: Canada's former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King will be returning to power three months after he resigned. King's Liberal Party gains 16 seats in national elections, which in tandem with progressive third parties is good enough to oust Arthur Meighen's Conservatives.

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