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The 2006 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 39th General Election) was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 39th Parliament of Canada.
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124 | 103 | 51 | 29 | 1 |
Conservative | Liberal | BQ | NDP | I |
Party | Party leader | Candi- dates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||
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2004 | Dissol. | 2006 | % Change | # | % | Change | ||||||
Conservative | Stephen Harper | 308 | 99 | 98 | 124 | +26.3% | 5,374,071 | 36.27% | +6.64pp | |||
Liberal | Paul Martin | 308 | 135 | 133 | 103 | -23.7% | 4,479,415 | 30.23% | -6.50pp | |||
Bloc Québécois | Gilles Duceppe | 75 | 54 | 53 | 51 | -5.6% | 1,553,201 | 10.48% | -1.90pp | |||
New Democrats | Jack Layton | 308 | 19 | 18 | 29 | +52.6% | 2,589,597 | 17.48% | +1.71pp | |||
Independents and no affiliation | 90 | 1 | 4 | 11 | - | 81,860 | 0.55% | -0.07pp | ||||
Green | Jim Harris | 308 | - | - | - | 664,068 | 4.48% | +0.19pp | ||||
Christian Heritage | Ron Gray | 45 | - | - | - | 28,152 | 0.19% | -0.11pp | ||||
Progressive Canadian | Tracy Parsons | 25 | - | - | - | 14,151 | 0.10% | +0.02pp | ||||
Marijuana | Blair Longley | 23 | - | - | - | 9,171 | 0.06% | -0.18pp | ||||
Marxist-Leninist | Sandra L. Smith | 69 | - | - | - | 8,980 | 0.06% | +0.00pp | ||||
Canadian Action | Connie Fogal | 34 | - | - | - | 6,102 | 0.04% | -0.02pp | ||||
Communist | Miguel Figueroa | 21 | - | - | - | 3,022 | 0.02% | -0.01pp | ||||
Libertarian | Jean-Serge Brisson | 10 | - | - | - | 3,002 | 0.02% | +0.01pp | ||||
First Peoples National | Barbara Wardlaw | 5 | * | - | - | * | 1,201 | 0.0081% | * | |||
Western Block | Doug Christie | 4 | * | - | - | * | 1,094 | 0.0074% | * | |||
Animal Alliance | Liz White | 1 | * | - | - | * | 72 | 0.00049% | * | |||
Vacant | 2 | |||||||||||
Total | 1634 | 308 | 308 | 308 | ±0.0% | 14,817,159 | 100% | |||||
Source: Elections Canada |
Notes:
Party name | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NU | NT | YT | Total | ||
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Conservative | Seats: | 17[1] | 28 | 12 | 8 | 40 | 10 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 124 | |
Vote: | 37.3 | 65.0 | 48.9 | 42.8 | 35.1 | 24.6 | 35.7 | 29.69 | 33.4 | 42.67 | 29.6 | 19.8 | 23.67 | 36.25 | ||
Liberal | Seats: | 9[2] | - | 2 | 3 | 54 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 103 | |
Vote: | 27.6 | 15.3 | 22.4 | 26.0 | 39.9 | 20.7 | 39.2 | 37.15 | 52.5 | 42.82 | 39.1 | 34.9 | 48.52 | 30.2 | ||
Bloc Québécois | Seats: | 51 | 51 | |||||||||||||
Vote: | 42.1 | 10.5 | ||||||||||||||
New Democrat | Seats: | 10 | - | - | 3 | 12 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 29 | |
Vote: | 28.6 | 11.6 | 24.0 | 25.4 | 19.4 | 7.5 | 21.9 | 29.84 | 9.6 | 13.58 | 17.6 | 42.1 | 23.85 | 17.5 | ||
Green | Vote: | 5.3 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 0.9 | 5.9 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | |
Independent / No affiliation | Seats: | 1[3] | 1 | |||||||||||||
Vote: | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||||
Total seats: | 36 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 106 | 75 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 308 |
^ David Emerson, elected on January 23 as a Liberal in the British Columbia riding of Vancouver Kingsway, changed parties on February 6 to join the Conservatives before the new Parliament had taken office. He is reflected here as a Liberal.
^ André Arthur was elected as an independent candidate in the Quebec riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier.