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Canada 2000 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 172 of 301 seats with 40.9% of the vote; 61.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.8 points on 1997.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada172+1740.9+2.45,252,031
Reform Party of Canada66+625.5+6.13,276,929
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada12−812.2−6.71,566,998
Bloc Québécois38−610.7+0.11,377,727
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party13−88.5−2.51,093,868
Green Party of Canada000.8+0.4104,502

± is the change against the Canada 1997 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 5,252,031
  • Reform Party of Canada 3,276,929
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1,566,998
  • Bloc Québécois 1,377,727
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,093,868
  • Green Party of Canada 104,502

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

61.2% of the 21,243,473 registered voters cast a ballot (12,997,185 ballots), down 5.8 points on 1997. 12,997,185 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 Canada40.9% of votes57.1% of seats
  • Reform Party of Canada25.5% of votes21.9% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois10.7% of votes12.6% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party8.5% of votes4.3% of seats
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada12.2% of votes4.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Reform Party of Canada by 15.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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