2004 Canadian federal election

The **2004 Canadian federal election** (more formally, the **38th General Election**), was held on June 28, 2004, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 38th Parliament of Canada.

## National results

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|style="background:lightcoral; width:43.8%; color:white"|135|style="background:cornflowerblue; width:32.1%; color:white"|99|style="background:lightskyblue; width:17.5%; color:white"|54|style="background:sandybrown; width:6.1%; color:white"|19|style="background:gray; width:1%; color:white"|1|
|style="color:lightcoral"|Liberal|style="color:cornflowerblue"|Conservative|style="color:lightskyblue"|Bloc Québécois|style="color:sandybrown"|NDP|style="color:gray"|O|

|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC"
!rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party
!rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party leader
!rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |# of
candidates
!colspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |Seats
!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote
|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC"
| style="text-align:center;" |2000
| 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;" |Paul Martin
| style="text-align:right;" |308
| style="text-align:right;" |172
| style="text-align:right;" |168
| style="text-align:right;" |**135**
| style="text-align:right;" |-21.5%
| style="text-align:right;" |4,982,220
| style="text-align:right;" |36.73%
| style="text-align:right;" |-4.12pp
<sup>1</sup>
| style="text-align:left;" |Stephen Harper
| style="text-align:right;" |308
| style="text-align:right;" |78
| style="text-align:right;" |72
| style="text-align:right;" |**99**
| style="text-align:right;" |+37.5%
| style="text-align:right;" |4,019,498
| style="text-align:right;" |29.63%
| style="text-align:right;" |-8.05pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Gilles Duceppe
| style="text-align:right;" |75
| style="text-align:right;" |38
| style="text-align:right;" |33
| style="text-align:right;" |**54**
| style="text-align:right;" |+42.1%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,680,109
| style="text-align:right;" |12.39%
| style="text-align:right;" |+1.67pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Jack Layton
| style="text-align:right;" |308
| style="text-align:right;" |13
| style="text-align:right;" |14
| style="text-align:right;" |**19**
| style="text-align:right;" |+46.2%
| style="text-align:right;" |2,127,403
| style="text-align:right;" |15.68%
| style="text-align:right;" |+7.17pp

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Independent and No Affiliation
| style="text-align:right;" |64
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |10
| style="text-align:right;" |**1**
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |64,864
| style="text-align:right;" |0.48%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.05pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Jim Harris
| style="text-align:right;" |308
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |582,247
| style="text-align:right;" |4.29%
| style="text-align:right;" |+3.48pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Ron Gray
| style="text-align:right;" |62
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |40,335
| style="text-align:right;" |0.30%
| style="text-align:right;" |–

| style="text-align:left;" |Marc-Boris St-Maurice
| style="text-align:right;" |71
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |33,276
| style="text-align:right;" |0.25%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.27pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Ernie Schreiber
| style="text-align:right;" |16
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |10,872
| style="text-align:right;" |0.08%
| style="text-align:right;" |*

| style="text-align:left;" |Connie Fogal
| 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;" |8,807
| style="text-align:right;" |0.06%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.15pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Sandra L. Smith
| style="text-align:right;" |76
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |8,696
| style="text-align:right;" |0.06%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.03pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Miguel Figueroa
| style="text-align:right;" |35
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |4,426
| style="text-align:right;" |0.03%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.04pp

| style="text-align:left;" |Jean-Serge Brisson
| style="text-align:right;" |8
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |1,949
| style="text-align:right;" |0.01%
| style="text-align:right;" |*
|-

| 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;" |**1,683**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**308**
| style="text-align:right;" |**+2.3%**
| style="text-align:right;" |**13,564,702**
|colspan="2"|**100%**
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" |**Sources:** Elections Canada Web Site -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867
|-
|}**Notes:**

"% change" refers to change from previous election

Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.  In the case of the CHP, which did have 46 candidates in the previous election, the party did not have official status and is not officially compared.

<sup>1</sup> Conservative Party results are compared to the combined totals of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party in the 2000 election.

## 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;"|NU|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;"|8|style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"|75|style="text-align:right;"|21|style="text-align:right;"|7|style="text-align:right;"|6|style="text-align:right;"|4|style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|135|Popular vote:|style="text-align:right;"|28.6|style="text-align:right;"|22.0|style="text-align:right;"|27.2|style="text-align:right;"|33.2|style="text-align:right;"|44.7|style="text-align:right;"|33.9|style="text-align:right;"|44.6|style="text-align:right;"|39.7|style="text-align:right;"|52.5|style="text-align:right;"|48.0|style="text-align:right;"|51.3|style="text-align:right;"|39.4|style="text-align:right;"|45.7|style="text-align:right;"|36.7|rowspan="2"|Conservative|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|22|style="text-align:right;"|26|style="text-align:right;"|13|style="text-align:right;"|7|style="text-align:right;"|24|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"|3|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|2|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|99|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|36.3|style="text-align:right;"|61.7|style="text-align:right;"|41.8|style="text-align:right;"|39.1|style="text-align:right;"|31.5|style="text-align:right;"|8.8|style="text-align:right;"|31.1|style="text-align:right;"|28.0|style="text-align:right;"|30.7|style="text-align:right;"|32.3|style="text-align:right;"|14.4|style="text-align:right;"|17.2|style="text-align:right;"|20.9|style="text-align:right;"|29.6|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;"|54|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;"|54|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;"|48.9|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;"||style="text-align:right;"|12.4|rowspan="2"|New Democratic|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|5|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|4|style="text-align:right;"|7|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|1|style="text-align:right;"|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;"|19|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|26.6|style="text-align:right;"|9.5|style="text-align:right;"|23.4|style="text-align:right;"|23.5|style="text-align:right;"|18.1|style="text-align:right;"|4.6|style="text-align:right;"|20.6|style="text-align:right;"|28.4|style="text-align:right;"|12.5|style="text-align:right;"|17.5|style="text-align:right;"|15.2|style="text-align:right;"|39.1|style="text-align:right;"|25.7|style="text-align:right;"|15.7|rowspan="2"|No Affiliation|Seats:|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;"||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;"|1.0|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|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;"|0.1|
|colspan=17|**Parties that won no seats:**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|6.3|style="text-align:right;"|6.1|style="text-align:right;"|2.7|style="text-align:right;"|2.7|style="text-align:right;"|4.4|style="text-align:right;"|3.2|style="text-align:right;"|3.4|style="text-align:right;"|3.3|style="text-align:right;"|4.2|style="text-align:right;"|1.6|style="text-align:right;"|3.3|style="text-align:right;"|4.3|style="text-align:right;"|4.6|style="text-align:right;"|4.3|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.9|style="text-align:right;"|0.5|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"||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;"|0.8|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.4|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;"|2.4|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|Progressive Canadian|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.3|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;"|0.1|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|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;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|x|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|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.9|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|x|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;"|x|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|x|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;"|x|Independents|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|4.6|style="text-align:right;"|x|style="text-align:right;"|0.3|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"|0.2|style="text-align:right;"|0.1|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.6|style="text-align:right;"|15.7|style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.3||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Source: Elections Canada

## References

**Notes**

**General**

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2004 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **previous election**: 2000 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 2000
- **next election**: 2006 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 2006
- **seats for election**: 308 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 155
- **previous mps**: 37th Canadian Parliament
- **elected mps**: List of House members of the 38th Parliament of Canada
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling in the Canadian federal election, 2004
- **turnout**: 60.9% (3.2Percentage Point, pp)
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Paul Martin
- **leader since1**: 2003 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, November 14, 2003
- **leaders seat1**: LaSalle—Émard
- **last election1**: 172 seats, 40.85%
- **seats before1**: 168
- **seats1**: **135**
- **seat change1**: 33
- **popular vote1**: **4,982,220**
- **percentage1**: **36.73%**
- **swing1**: 4.12Percentage Point, pp
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Stephen Harper
- **leader since2**: 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, March 20, 2004
- **leaders seat2**: Calgary Southwest
- **last election2**: 78 seats, 37.68%<sup>1</sup>
- **seats before2**: 72
- **seats2**: 99
- **seat change2**: 27
- **popular vote2**: 4,019,498
- **percentage2**: 29.63%
- **swing2**: 8.05Percentage Point, pp
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Gilles Duceppe
- **leader since4**: 1997 Bloc Québécois leadership election, March 15, 1997
- **leaders seat4**: Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Laurier
- **last election4**: 38 seats, 10.72%
- **seats before4**: 33
- **seats4**: 54
- **seat change4**: 21
- **popular vote4**: 1,680,109
- **percentage4**: 12.39%
- **swing4**: 1.67Percentage Point, pp
- **image5**:
- **leader5**: Jack Layton
- **leader since5**: 2003 New Democratic Party leadership election, January 24, 2003
- **leaders seat5**: Toronto—Danforth
- **last election5**: 13 seats, 8.51%
- **seats before5**: 14
- **seats5**: 19
- **seat change5**: 5
- **popular vote5**: 2,127,403
- **percentage5**: 15.68%
- **swing5**: 7.17Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 2004 Federal Election.svg
- **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**: Paul Martin
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **after election**: Paul Martin