Canada 1997 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 155 of 301 seats with 38.5% of the vote; 67.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.6 points on 1993.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 155 | −22 | 38.5 | −2.9 | 4,994,277 |
| Reform Party of Canada | 60 | +8 | 19.4 | +0.6 | 2,513,080 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 20 | +18 | 18.8 | +2.8 | 2,446,705 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 21 | +12 | 11.1 | +4.2 | 1,434,509 |
| Bloc Québécois | 44 | −10 | 10.7 | −2.8 | 1,385,821 |
| Green Party of Canada | 0 | 0.4 | 55,583 | ||
| Independents | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 17,163 |
± is the change against the Canada 1993 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 4,994,277
- Reform Party of Canada 2,513,080
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 2,446,705
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,434,509
- Bloc Québécois 1,385,821
- Green Party of Canada 55,583
- Independents 17,163
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
Turnout
67.0% of the 19,663,478 registered voters cast a ballot (13,174,698 ballots), down 2.6 points on 1993. 12,985,874 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada38.5% of votes51.5% of seats
- Reform Party of Canada19.4% of votes19.9% of seats
- Bloc Québécois10.7% of votes14.6% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party11.1% of votes7.0% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada18.8% of votes6.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Reform Party of Canada by 19.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
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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