Canada Federal election 2021 — Results
Election day: September 20, 2021
- Liberal: 32.62%, 160 seats
- Conservative: 33.74%, 119 seats
- Bloc Québécois: 7.64%, 32 seats
- New Democratic Party (NDP): 17.82%, 25 seats
- Green: 2.33%, 2 seats
- People's Party (PPC): 4.94%, 0 seats
Turnout: 62.30%
About this election
The rules of the game
The 338 members were again elected by first-past-the-post, with 170 seats needed for a majority. The Senate being appointed, the election decided only the House of Commons. As in 2019, the Liberals' more efficient distribution of votes across Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic let them win more seats than the Conservatives despite a smaller national vote share. The map shows the leading party by seats in each province and territory.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- -1.12 points separated Liberal from Conservative — -190,781 votes.
- Liberal converted 32.62% of the vote into 160 of 338 seats (47.34%), 14.72 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 66.36% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Liberal moved −0.50 points against the 2019 federal election (33.12% → 32.62%).
- Support for Liberal ranged from 100.00% in Prince Edward Island to 5.88% in Alberta — a spread of 94.12 points across 11 regions, and it led in 9 of 13.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one 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