Canada Federal election 2019 — Results
Election day: October 21, 2019
- Liberal: 33.12%, 157 seats
- Conservative: 34.34%, 121 seats
- Bloc Québécois: 7.63%, 32 seats
- New Democratic Party (NDP): 15.98%, 24 seats
- Green: 6.55%, 3 seats
- People's Party (PPC): 1.62%, 0 seats
Turnout: 67.00%
About this election
The rules of the game
As in every federal election, members were elected by first-past-the-post in 338 single-member ridings, with 170 seats needed for a majority. Because seats, not votes, determine power, a party whose vote is efficiently spread across many ridings can win more seats than a rival that piles up large majorities in fewer regions — exactly what happened to the Liberals and Conservatives respectively. The map shows the party that won the most seats in each province and territory.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- -1.22 points separated Liberal from Conservative — -220,499 votes.
- Liberal converted 33.12% of the vote into 157 of 338 seats (46.45%), 13.33 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 67.46% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Liberal moved −6.35 points against the 2015 federal election (39.47% → 33.12%).
- Support for Liberal ranged from 100.00% in Northwest Territories to 26.19% in British Columbia — a spread of 73.81 points across 10 regions, and it led in 8 of 13.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close