The King–Byng affair, also known as the King–Byng Wing Ding, was a Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred in 1926, when the Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to dissolve parliament and call a general election. The 1925 Canadian federal election saw King's Liberals winning fewer seats than the Conservatives of Arthur Meighen, who were left eight seats short of a majority.
The King–Byng affair, also known as the King–Byng Wing Ding, was a Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred in 1926, when the Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to dissolve parliament and call a general election. The 1925 Canadian federal election saw King's Liberals winning fewer seats than the Conservatives of Arthur Meighen, who were left eight seats short of a majority.
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