Canada Federal election 2015 — Results
Election day: October 19, 2015
- Liberal: 39.47%, 184 seats
- Conservative: 31.91%, 99 seats
- New Democratic Party (NDP): 19.72%, 44 seats
- Bloc Québécois: 4.67%, 10 seats
- Green: 3.43%, 1 seats
Turnout: 68.30%
About this election
The rules of the game
Canada elects its House of Commons by first-past-the-post: each of the 338 ridings (electoral districts) returns one member, and the candidate with the most votes wins. There is no separate national vote for prime minister; the leader of the party that can command the confidence of the House — normally the party with the most seats — becomes prime minister. A majority required 170 seats. The Senate is appointed, not elected, so federal elections decide only the lower house. The map on this page shows which party won the most seats in each province and territory.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 7.56 points separated Liberal from Conservative — 1,329,304 votes.
- Liberal converted 39.47% of the vote into 184 of 338 seats (54.44%), 14.97 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 71.38% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Liberal ranged from 100.00% in New Brunswick to 7.14% in Saskatchewan — a spread of 92.86 points across 13 regions, and it led in 11 of 13.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result