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Canada 2011 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party of Canada won 166 of 308 seats with 39.6% of the vote; 61.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.3 points on 2008.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Conservative Party of Canada166+2339.6+1.95,835,270
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party103+6630.6+12.44,512,411
Liberal Party of Canada34−4318.9−7.42,783,076
Bloc Québécois4−456.1−3.9891,425
Green Party of Canada1+13.9−2.9572,095
Largest party without seats00.118,910

± is the change against the Canada 2008 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Conservative Party of Canada 5,835,270
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 4,512,411
  • Liberal Party of Canada 2,783,076
  • Bloc Québécois 891,425
  • Green Party of Canada 572,095
  • Largest party without seats 18,910

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

61.1% of the 24,257,592 registered voters cast a ballot (14,823,408 ballots), up 2.3 points on 2008. 14,723,980 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Conservative Party of Canada39.6% of votes53.9% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party30.6% of votes33.4% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada18.9% of votes11.0% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois6.1% of votes1.3% of seats
  • Green Party of Canada3.9% of votes0.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Conservative Party of Canada led Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party by 9.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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