Canada 2008 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party of Canada won 143 of 308 seats with 37.7% of the vote; 58.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.8 points on 2006.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party of Canada | 143 | +19 | 37.7 | +1.4 | 5,209,069 |
| Liberal Party of Canada | 77 | −26 | 26.3 | −3.9 | 3,633,185 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 37 | +8 | 18.2 | +0.7 | 2,515,288 |
| Bloc Québécois | 49 | −2 | 10.0 | −0.5 | 1,379,991 |
| Green Party of Canada | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | +2.3 | 937,613 |
| Independents | 2 | +1 | 0.3 | +0.2 | 42,366 |
± is the change against the Canada 2006 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Conservative Party of Canada 5,209,069
- Liberal Party of Canada 3,633,185
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,515,288
- Bloc Québécois 1,379,991
- Green Party of Canada 937,613
- Independents 42,366
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
58.8% of the 23,677,639 registered voters cast a ballot (13,929,093 ballots), down 5.8 points on 2006. 13,834,294 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
- Conservative Party of Canada37.7% of votes46.4% of seats
- Liberal Party of Canada26.3% of votes25.0% of seats
- Bloc Québécois10.0% of votes15.9% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party18.2% of votes12.0% of seats
- Green Party of Canada6.8% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 11.4 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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