Canada 1993 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Liberal Party of Canada won 177 of 295 seats with 41.3% of the vote; 69.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.7 points on 1988.

Canada
Held Monday 25 October 1993

Result

148 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Liberal Party of Canada	177	+94	41.3	+9.7	5,647,952
Reform Party of Canada	52	+52	18.7	+16.6	2,559,245
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada	2	−167	16.0	−26.7	2,186,422
Bloc Québécois	54		13.5		1,846,024
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party	9	−34	6.9	−13.3	939,575
National Party of Canada	0		1.4		186,497
Independents	1		0.1		20,343

± is the change against the Canada 1988 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party

Liberal Party of Canada 5,647,952
Reform Party of Canada 2,559,245
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 2,186,422
Bloc Québécois 1,846,024
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 939,575
National Party of Canada 186,497
Independents 20,343

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Liberal Party of Canada41.3%
Reform Party of Canada18.7%
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada16.0%
Bloc Québécois13.5%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party6.9%
National Party of Canada1.4%

Turnout

69.6% of the 19,906,796 registered voters cast a ballot (13,863,135 ballots), down 5.7 points on 1988. 13,667,671 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1980 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Liberal Party of Canada41.3% of votes60.0% of seats
Bloc Québécois13.5% of votes18.3% of seats
Reform Party of Canada18.7% of votes17.6% of seats
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party6.9% of votes3.1% of seats
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada16.0% of votes0.7% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 17.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Reform Party of Canada by 22.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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