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Canada 2006 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party of Canada won 124 of 308 seats with 36.3% of the vote; 64.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.8 points on 2004.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Conservative Party of Canada124+2536.3+6.65,374,071
Liberal Party of Canada103−3230.2−6.54,479,415
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party29+1017.5+1.82,589,597
Bloc Québécois51−310.5−1.91,553,201
Green Party of Canada004.5+0.2664,068
Independents100.10.020,158

± is the change against the Canada 2004 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Conservative Party of Canada 5,374,071
  • Liberal Party of Canada 4,479,415
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,589,597
  • Bloc Québécois 1,553,201
  • Green Party of Canada 664,068
  • Independents 20,158

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

64.7% of the 23,054,615 registered voters cast a ballot (14,908,703 ballots), up 3.8 points on 2004. 14,817,159 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1997 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Conservative Party of Canada36.3% of votes40.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada30.2% of votes33.4% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois10.5% of votes16.6% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party17.5% of votes9.4% of seats
  • Green Party of Canada4.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 6.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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