1997 Canadian federal election

The **1997 Canadian federal election** was held on June 2 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 36th Parliament of Canada.

## Results

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:lightcoral; width:51.4%;color:white;"|**155**|style="background:mediumseagreen; width:19.9%;color:white;"|**60**|style="background:lightskyblue; width:14.6%;color:white;"|**44**|style="background:sandybrown; width:6.9%;color:white;"|**21**|style="background:#99f; width:6.6%;color:white;"|**20**|style="background:gray; width:1%;color:white;"|**1**|
|style="color:lightcoral;"|**Liberal**|style="color:mediumseagreen;"|**Reform**|style="color:lightskyblue;"|**BQ**|style="color:sandybrown;"|**NDP**|style="color:#99f;"|**PC**|style="color:gray;"|**I**|

|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC"
! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party
! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Party Leader
! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Candidates
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"|Seats
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"|Popular vote
|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC"
| style="text-align:center;" |1993
| style="text-align:center;" |<span style="font-size:75%;">Dissol.</span>
| style="text-align:center;" |**Elected**
| style="text-align:center;" |% Change
| style="text-align:center;" |#
| style="text-align:center;" |%
| style="text-align:center;" |Change

| style="text-align:left;" | Jean Chrétien
| style="text-align:right;" |301
| style="text-align:right;" |177
| style="text-align:right;" |174
| style="text-align:right;" |**155**
| style="text-align:right;" |-12.4%
| style="text-align:right;" |4,994,277
| style="text-align:right;" |38.46%
| style="text-align:right;" |-2.78pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Preston Manning
| style="text-align:right;" |227
| style="text-align:right;" |52
| style="text-align:right;" |50
| style="text-align:right;" |**60**
| style="text-align:right;" |+15.4%
| style="text-align:right;" |2,513,080
| style="text-align:right;" |19.35%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.66pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Gilles Duceppe
| style="text-align:right;" |75
| style="text-align:right;" |54
| style="text-align:right;" |50
| style="text-align:right;" |**44**
| style="text-align:right;" |-18.5%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,385,821
| style="text-align:right;" |10.67%
| style="text-align:right;" |-2.85pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Alexa McDonough
| style="text-align:right;" |301
| style="text-align:right;" |9
| style="text-align:right;" |9
| style="text-align:right;" |**21**
| style="text-align:right;" |+133.3%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,434,509
| style="text-align:right;" |11.05%
| style="text-align:right;" |+4.17pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Jean Charest
| style="text-align:right;" |301
| style="text-align:right;" |2
| style="text-align:right;" |2
| style="text-align:right;" |**20**
| style="text-align:right;" |+900%
| style="text-align:right;" |2,446,705
| style="text-align:right;" |18.84%
| style="text-align:right;" |+2.80pp

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|Independent and No Affiliation
| style="text-align:right;" |76
| style="text-align:right;" |1
| style="text-align:right;" |6
| style="text-align:right;" |**1**
| style="text-align:right;" | 
| style="text-align:right;" |60,759
| style="text-align:right;" |0.47%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.09pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Joan Russow
| style="text-align:right;" |79
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |55,583
| style="text-align:right;" |0.43%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.18pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Neil Paterson
| style="text-align:right;" |136
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |37,085
| style="text-align:right;" |0.29%
| style="text-align:right;" |+x

| style="text-align:left;" | Ron Gray
| style="text-align:right;" |53
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |29,085
| style="text-align:right;" |0.22%
| style="text-align:right;" |+x

| style="text-align:left;" | Paul T. Hellyer
| style="text-align:right;" |58
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |17,502
| style="text-align:right;" |0.13%
| style="text-align:right;" |*

| style="text-align:left;" | Hardial Bains
| style="text-align:right;" |65
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |11,468
| style="text-align:right;" |0.09%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.05pp
|-

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Vacant
| style="text-align:right;" |4
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="5" | 
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|**Total**
| style="text-align:right;" |**1,672**
| style="text-align:right;" |**295**
| style="text-align:right;" |**295**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**+2.0%**
| style="text-align:right;" |**12,985,974**
| style="text-align:right;" |**100%**
| style="text-align:right;" | 
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" |**Sources:** http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867
|-
|}
**Notes:**

- Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

x: Less than 0.005% of the popular vote

### Results by province

|style="text-align:center;" colspan=3|Party Name|style="text-align:center;"|BC|style="text-align:center;"|AB|style="text-align:center;"|SK|style="text-align:center;"|MB|style="text-align:center;"|ON|style="text-align:center;"|QC|style="text-align:center;"|NB|style="text-align:center;"|NS|style="text-align:center;"|PE|style="text-align:center;"|NL|style="text-align:center;"|NT|style="text-align:center;"|YK|style="text-align:center;"|Total|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|rowspan=2|Liberal|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|6|style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|6|style="text-align:right;"|101|style="text-align:right;"|26|style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|4|style="text-align:right;"|4|style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|155|Popular vote:|style="text-align:right;"|28.8|style="text-align:right;"|24.0|style="text-align:right;"|24.7|style="text-align:right;"|34.3|style="text-align:right;"|49.5|style="text-align:right;"|36.7|style="text-align:right;"|32.9|style="text-align:right;"|28.4|style="text-align:right;"|44.8|style="text-align:right;"|37.9|style="text-align:right;"|43.1|style="text-align:right;"|22.0|style="text-align:right;"|38.5|rowspan=2|Reform|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|25|style="text-align:right;"|24|style="text-align:right;"|8|style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|60|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|43.1|style="text-align:right;"|54.6|style="text-align:right;"|36.0|style="text-align:right;"|23.7|style="text-align:right;"|19.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|13.1|style="text-align:right;"|9.7|style="text-align:right;"|1.5|style="text-align:right;"|2.5|style="text-align:right;"|11.7|style="text-align:right;"|25.3|style="text-align:right;"|19.4|rowspan=2|Bloc Québécois|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|44|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|44|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|37.9|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|10.7|rowspan=2|New Democrats|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"|4|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"|6|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|21|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|18.2|style="text-align:right;"|5.7|style="text-align:right;"|30.9|style="text-align:right;"|23.2|style="text-align:right;"|10.7|style="text-align:right;"|2.0|style="text-align:right;"|18.4|style="text-align:right;"|30.4|style="text-align:right;"|15.1|style="text-align:right;"|22.0|style="text-align:right;"|20.9|style="text-align:right;"|28.9|style="text-align:right;"|11.0|rowspan=2|Progressive Conservative|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|20|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|6.2|style="text-align:right;"|14.4|style="text-align:right;"|7.8|style="text-align:right;"|17.8|style="text-align:right;"|18.8|style="text-align:right;"|22.2|style="text-align:right;"|35.0|style="text-align:right;"|30.8|style="text-align:right;"|38.3|style="text-align:right;"|36.8|style="text-align:right;"|16.7|style="text-align:right;"|13.9|style="text-align:right;"|18.8|rowspan=2|Other|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|1|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.6|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.6|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.5|style="text-align:right;"|7.6|style="text-align:right;"|8.9|style="text-align:right;"|0.5|
|colspan=16|**Parties that won no seats:**|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|2.0|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.4|Natural Law|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.6|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.3|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|1.0|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.1|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.1|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Source: Elections Canada

## Notes

- **Number of parties**: 10
    - **First appearance**: Canadian Action Party
    - **Final appearance**: Reform Party of Canada
    - **Final appearance before hiatus**: Christian Heritage Party of Canada (returned in 2004)
- 1997 was one of only three elections in Canadian history (the others were 1993 and 2008) where the official Opposition did not have the majority of the opposition's seats. 60 seats for the Reform Party, yet 86 seats for the other opposition parties and independents combined.

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 1997 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **previous election**: 1993 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 1993
- **previous mps**: 35th Canadian Parliament
- **elected mps**: List of House members of the 36th Parliament of Canada
- **next election**: 2000 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 2000
- **seats for election**: 301 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 151
- **turnout**: 67.0% (3.9Percentage Point, pp)
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Jean Chrétien
- **leader since1**: 1990 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, June 23, 1990
- **leaders seat1**: Saint-Maurice (electoral district), Saint-Maurice
- **last election1**: 177 seats, 41.24%
- **seats before1**: 174
- **seats1**: **155**
- **seat change1**: 19
- **popular vote1**: **4,994,277**
- **percentage1**: **38.46%**
- **swing1**: 2.78Percentage Point, pp
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Preston Manning
- **leader since2**: Reform Party of Canada#Political roots and the party's creation, November 1, 1987
- **leaders seat2**: Calgary Southwest
- **last election2**: 52 seats, 18.69%
- **seats before2**: 50
- **seats2**: 60
- **seat change2**: 10
- **popular vote2**: 2,513,080
- **percentage2**: 19.35%
- **swing2**: 0.66Percentage Point, pp
- **image3**:
- **leader3**: Gilles Duceppe
- **leader since3**: 1997 Bloc Québécois leadership election, March 15, 1997
- **leaders seat3**: Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Laurier—
Sainte-Marie
- **last election3**: 54 seats, 13.52%
- **seats before3**: 50
- **seats3**: 44
- **seat change3**: 6
- **popular vote3**: 1,385,821
- **percentage3**: 10.67%
- **swing3**: 2.85Percentage Point, pp
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Alexa McDonough
- **leader since4**: 1995 New Democratic Party leadership election, October 14, 1995
- **leaders seat4**: Halifax (electoral district), Halifax
- **last election4**: 9 seats, 6.88%
- **seats before4**: 9
- **seats4**: 21
- **seat change4**: 12
- **popular vote4**: 1,434,509
- **percentage4**: 11.05%
- **swing4**: 4.17Percentage Point, pp
- **image5**:
- **leader5**: Jean Charest
- **leader since5**: Progressive Conservative leadership elections#1995 Progressive Conservative leadership convention, April 29, 1995
- **leaders seat5**: Sherbrooke (electoral district), Sherbrooke
- **last election5**: 2 seats, 16.04%
- **seats before5**: 2
- **seats5**: 20
- **seat change5**: 18
- **popular vote5**: 2,446,705
- **percentage5**: 18.84%
- **swing5**: 2.80Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 1997 Federal Election.svg
- **map size**: 400px
- **map caption**: 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.
- **title**: Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister
- **before election**: Jean Chrétien
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **after election**: Jean Chrétien