The 19th Canadian Parliament was in session from 16 May 1940, until 16 April 1945. The membership was set by the 1940 federal election on 26 March 1940, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1945 election.

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19th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
16 May 1940 – 16 April 1945
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	William Lyon Mackenzie King 23 October 1935 – 15 November 1948
Cabinet	16th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Richard Hanson 14 May 1940 – 1 January 1943
	Gordon Graydon 1 January 1943 – 10 June 1945
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	National Government (Canada) & Conservative Party
Crossbench	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
	Social Credit Party
	Liberal-Progressive
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	James Allison Glen 16 May 1940 – 5 September 1945
Government House Leader	Ian Alistair Mackenzie 14 October 1944 – 30 April 1948
Members	245 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	Georges Parent 9 May 1940 – 14 December 1942
	Thomas Vien 23 January 1943 – 23 August 1945
Government Senate Leader	Raoul Dandurand 23 October 1935 – 11 March 1942
	James Horace King 26 May 1942 – 24 August 1945
Opposition Senate Leader	Arthur Meighen 22 October 1935 – 16 January 1942
	Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne 16 January 1942 – 11 September 1945
Sovereign
Monarch	George VI 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
Governor General	Alexander Cambridge 21 June 1940 – 12 April 1946
Sessions
1st session 16 May 1940 – 5 November 1940
2nd session 7 November 1940 – 21 January 1942
3rd session 22 January 1942 – 27 January 1943
4th session 28 January 1943 – 26 January 1944
5th session 27 January 1944 – 31 January 1945
6th session 19 March 1945 – 16 April 1945
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It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the so-called "National Government" party (the name which the Conservatives ran under in the 1940 election), led in the House by Richard Hanson and Gordon Graydon consecutively as the three successive national leaders of the party, Robert Manion, Arthur Meighen and John Bracken did not have seats in the House of Commons. With the selection of Bracken as national leader in December 1942, the party became known as the Progressive Conservatives.

The Speaker was James Allison Glen. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933–1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were six sessions of the 19th Parliament:

Following is a full list of members of the nineteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Parliamentary assistants is indicated by "‡". Cabinet ministers are in boldface. The Prime Minister is both. The Speaker is indicated by "(†)".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

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