2000 Canadian federal election

2000 Canadian federal election

November 27, 2000 (2000-11-27)
301 seats in the House of Commons 151 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	64.1% (2.9pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jean Chrétien Stockwell Day Gilles Duceppe Party Liberal Alliance Bloc Québécois Leader's seat Saint-Maurice Okanagan—Coquihalla Laurier— Sainte-Marie Last election 155 seats, 38.46% 60 seats, 19.35% 44 seats, 10.67% Seats before 161 60 44 Seats won 172 66 38 Seat change 11 6 6 Popular vote 5,252,031 3,276,929 1,377,727 Percentage 40.85% 25.49% 10.72% Swing 2.39pp 6.13pp 0.04pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Alexa McDonough Joe Clark Party New Democratic Progressive Conservative Leader's seat Halifax Calgary Centre Last election 21 seats, 11.05% 20 seats, 18.84% Seats before 19 15 Seats won 13 12 Seat change 6 3 Popular vote 1,093,868 1,566,998 Percentage 8.51% 12.19% Swing 2.54pp 6.65pp
Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by province but instead via results by each riding.
Prime Minister before election Jean Chrétien Liberal Prime Minister after election Jean Chrétien Liberal

The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000, to elect 301 Members of Parliament of the House of Commons of Canada of the 37th Parliament of Canada.

Results

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172	66	38	13	12
Liberal	Canadian Alliance	BQ	NDP	PC

Party		Party leader	Candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				1997	Dissol.	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Jean Chrétien	301	155	161	172	+11.0%	5,252,031	40.85%	+2.39pp
	Alliance	Stockwell Day	298	60	58	66	+10.0%	3,276,929	25.49%	+6.13pp1
	Bloc Québécois	Gilles Duceppe	75	44	44	38	-13.6%	1,377,727	10.72%	+0.05pp
	New Democratic	Alexa McDonough	298	21	19	13	-38.1%	1,093,868	8.51%	-2.54pp
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Clark	291	20	15	12	-40.0%	1,566,998	12.19%	-6.65pp
	Green	Joan Russow	111	-	-	-	-	104,402	0.81%	+0.38pp
	Marijuana	Marc-Boris St-Maurice	73	*	-	-	*	66,258	0.52%	*
	Independent and No Affiliation		86	1	4	-	-100%	55,036	0.43%	-0.04pp
	Canadian Action	Paul T. Hellyer	70	-	-	-	-	27,103	0.21%	+0.08pp
	Natural Law	Neil Paterson	69	-	-	-	-	16,577	0.13%	-0.16pp
	Marxist–Leninist	Sandra L. Smith	84	-	-	-	-	12,068	0.09%	-
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	52	*	-	-	*	8,776	0.07%	*
	Vacant				-
Total			1,808	301	301	301	±0.0%	12,857,773	100%	-
Sources: Elections Canada Web Site History of Federal Ridings since 1867 Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

Notes:

"% change" refers to change from previous election

* – Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election

¹ – percentage change from Reform Party of Canada in previous election.

Vote and seat summaries

Popular vote Liberal   40.85% Canadian Alliance   25.49% PC   12.19% Bloc Québécois   10.72% NDP   8.51% Green   0.81% Others   1.43%

Seat totals Liberal   57.14% Canadian Alliance   21.93% Bloc Québécois   12.62% NDP   4.32% PC   3.99%

Results by province

Party name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NU	NT	YK	Total
	Liberal	Seats:	5	2	2	5	100	36	6	4	4	5	1	1	1	172
		Popular vote:	27.7	20.9	20.7	32.5	51.5	44.2	41.7	36.5	47.0	44.9	69.0	45.3	32.9	40.8
	Canadian Alliance	Seats:	27	23	10	4	2	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	66
		Vote:	49.4	58.9	47.7	30.4	23.6	6.2	15.7	9.6	5.0	3.9		17.6	27.0	25.5
	Bloc Québécois	Seats:						38								38
		Vote:						39.9								10.7
	New Democratic	Seats:	2	-	2	4	1	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	-	13
		Vote:	11.3	5.4	26.2	20.9	8.3	1.8	11.7	24.0	9.0	13.1	18.3	26.9	32.1	8.5
	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	-	1	-	1	-	1	3	4	-	2	-	-	-	12
		Vote:	7.3	13.5	4.8	14.5	14.4	5.6	30.5	29.1	38.4	34.5	8.1	10.1	7.6	12.2
Total seats:			34	26	14	14	103	75	10	11	4	7	1	1	1	301
Parties that won no seats:
	Green	Vote:	2.1	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.9	0.6		0.1	0.3		4.5			0.8
	Marijuana	Vote:	0.7	0.2		0.1	0.3	1.0	0.1	0.4						0.5
	Canadian Action	Vote:	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2									0.2
	Natural Law	Vote:	0.1				0.1	0.3	0.2		0.1	0.1				0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Vote:	0.1				0.1	0.2		0.1						0.1
	Communist	Vote:	0.1			0.3	0.1	0.1								0.1
	Other	Vote:	0.4	0.4		1.0	0.6	0.2		0.2	0.1	4.4			0.4	0.4

Source: Elections Canada

Notes

• Number of parties: 11
  • First appearance: Marijuana Party of Canada
  • Reappearance after hiatus: Communist Party of Canada
  • Final appearance: Natural Law Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
  • First-and-only appearance: Canadian Alliance

Other websites

• Elections Canada: 2000 election
• Predicting the 2000 Canadian Election