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Canada 2015 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 184 of 338 seats with 39.5% of the vote; 68.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 7.4 points on 2011.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada184+15039.5+20.66,930,136
Conservative Party of Canada99−6731.9−7.75,600,496
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party44−5919.7−10.93,461,262
Bloc Québécois10+64.7−1.4818,652
Green Party of Canada103.5−0.5605,864
Independents00.240,879

± is the change against the Canada 2011 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 6,930,136
  • Conservative Party of Canada 5,600,496
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 3,461,262
  • Bloc Québécois 818,652
  • Green Party of Canada 605,864
  • Independents 40,879

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

68.5% of the 25,638,379 registered voters cast a ballot (17,559,353 ballots), up 7.4 points on 2011. The highest turnout since 1993 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Canada39.5% of votes54.4% of seats
  • Conservative Party of Canada31.9% of votes29.3% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party19.7% of votes13.0% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois4.7% of votes3.0% of seats
  • Green Party of Canada3.5% of votes0.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Conservative Party of Canada by 7.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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