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Canada 2004 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 135 of 308 seats with 36.7% of the vote; 60.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.3 points on 2000.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada135−3736.7−4.14,982,220
Conservative Party of Canada9929.64,019,498
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party19+615.7+7.22,127,403
Bloc Québécois54+1612.4+1.71,680,109
Green Party of Canada004.3+3.5582,247
Independents10.115,089

± is the change against the Canada 2000 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 4,982,220
  • Conservative Party of Canada 4,019,498
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,127,403
  • Bloc Québécois 1,680,109
  • Green Party of Canada 582,247
  • Independents 15,089

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

60.9% of the 22,466,621 registered voters cast a ballot (13,683,570 ballots), down 0.3 points on 2000. 13,564,702 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 Canada36.7% of votes43.8% of seats
  • Conservative Party of Canada29.6% of votes32.1% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois12.4% of votes17.5% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party15.7% of votes6.2% of seats
  • Green Party of Canada4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Conservative Party of Canada by 7.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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