2006 Canadian federal election

The **2006 Canadian federal election** (more formally, the **39th General Election**) was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 39th Parliament of Canada.

### Overall results

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|style="background:cornflowerblue; width:40.26%; color:white"|124|style="background:lightcoral; width:33.44%; color:white"|103|style="background:lightskyblue; width:16.56%; color:white"|51|style="background:sandybrown; width:9.42%; color:white"|29|style="background:gray; width:0.1%; color:white"|1|
|style="color:cornflowerblue"|Conservative|style="color:lightcoral"|Liberal|style="color:lightskyblue"|BQ|style="color:sandybrown"|NDP|style="color:gray"|I|

### 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;"|YT|style="text-align:center;"|Total||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|rowspan=2|Conservative|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|**17**|style="text-align:right;"|**28**|style="text-align:right;"|**12**|style="text-align:right;"|**8**|style="text-align:right;"|**40**|style="text-align:right;"|**10**|style="text-align:right;"|**3**|style="text-align:right;"|**3**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**3**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**124**|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|37.3|style="text-align:right;"|65.0|style="text-align:right;"|48.9|style="text-align:right;"|42.8|style="text-align:right;"|35.1|style="text-align:right;"|24.6|style="text-align:right;"|35.7|style="text-align:right;"|29.69|style="text-align:right;"|33.4|style="text-align:right;"|42.67|style="text-align:right;"|29.6|style="text-align:right;"|19.8|style="text-align:right;"|23.67|style="text-align:right;"|36.25|rowspan=2|Liberal|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|**9**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**2**|style="text-align:right;"|**3**|style="text-align:right;"|**54**|style="text-align:right;"|**13**|style="text-align:right;"|**6**|style="text-align:right;"|**6**|style="text-align:right;"|**4**|style="text-align:right;"|**4**|style="text-align:right;"|**1**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**1**|style="text-align:right;"|**103**|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|27.6|style="text-align:right;"|15.3|style="text-align:right;"|22.4|style="text-align:right;"|26.0|style="text-align:right;"|39.9|style="text-align:right;"|20.7|style="text-align:right;"|39.2|style="text-align:right;"|37.15|style="text-align:right;"|52.5|style="text-align:right;"|42.82|style="text-align:right;"|39.1|style="text-align:right;"|34.9|style="text-align:right;"|48.52|style="text-align:right;"|30.2|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;"|**51**|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;"|**51**|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;"|42.1|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;"|10.5|rowspan=2|New Democrat|Seats:|style="text-align:right;"|**10**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**3**|style="text-align:right;"|**12**|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;"|**1**|style="text-align:right;"|-|style="text-align:right;"|**29**|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|28.6|style="text-align:right;"|11.6|style="text-align:right;"|24.0|style="text-align:right;"|25.4|style="text-align:right;"|19.4|style="text-align:right;"|7.5|style="text-align:right;"|21.9|style="text-align:right;"|29.84|style="text-align:right;"|9.6|style="text-align:right;"|13.58|style="text-align:right;"|17.6|style="text-align:right;"|42.1|style="text-align:right;"|23.85|style="text-align:right;"|17.5|Vote:|style="text-align:right;"|5.3|style="text-align:right;"|6.5|style="text-align:right;"|3.2|style="text-align:right;"|3.9|style="text-align:right;"|4.7|style="text-align:right;"|4.0|style="text-align:right;"|2.4|style="text-align:right;"|2.6|style="text-align:right;"|3.9|style="text-align:right;"|0.9|style="text-align:right;"|5.9|style="text-align:right;"|2.1|style="text-align:right;"|4.0|style="text-align:right;"|4.5|
|rowspan=2|Independent / No affiliation|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;"|**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;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"||style="text-align:right;"|0.9|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;"|0.1|Total seats:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

### Notes

David Emerson, elected on January 23 as a Liberal in the British Columbia riding of Vancouver Kingsway, changed parties on February 6 to join the Conservatives before the new Parliament had taken office. He is reflected here as a Liberal.

André Arthur was elected as an independent candidate in the Quebec riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier.

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2006 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2004 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 2004
- **previous mps**: List of House members of the 38th Parliament of Canada
- **next election**: 2008 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 2008
- **elected mps**: List of House members of the 39th Parliament of Canada
- **seats for election**: 308 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
 155 seats needed for a majority
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling in the Canadian federal election, 2006
- **turnout**: 64.7% (3.8Percentage Point, pp)
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Stephen Harper
- **leader since1**: 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, March 20, 2004
- **leaders seat1**: Calgary Southwest
- **last election1**: 99 seats, 29.63%
- **seats before1**: 98
- **seats1**: **124**
- **seat change1**: 26
- **popular vote1**: **5,374,071**
- **percentage1**: **36.27%**
- **swing1**: 6.64Percentage Point, pp
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Paul Martin
- **leader since2**: 2003 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, November 14, 2003
- **leaders seat2**: LaSalle—Émard
- **last election2**: 135 seats, 36.73%
- **seats before2**: 133
- **seats2**: 103
- **seat change2**: 30
- **popular vote2**: 4,479,415
- **percentage2**: 30.23%
- **swing2**: 6.50Percentage Point, pp
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Gilles Duceppe
- **leader since4**: 1997 Bloc Québécois leadership election, March 15, 1997
- **leaders seat4**: Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Laurier—
Sainte-Marie
- **last election4**: 54 seats, 12.39%
- **seats before4**: 53
- **seats4**: 51
- **seat change4**: 2
- **popular vote4**: 1,553,201
- **percentage4**: 10.48%
- **swing4**: 1.91Percentage Point, pp
- **image5**:
- **leader5**: Jack Layton
- **leader since5**: 2003 New Democratic Party leadership election, January 24, 2003
- **leaders seat5**: Toronto—Danforth
- **last election5**: 19 seats, 15.68%
- **seats before5**: 18
- **seats5**: 29
- **seat change5**: 11
- **popular vote5**: 2,589,597
- **percentage5**: 17.48%
- **swing5**: 1.80Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 2006 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
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **before election**: Paul Martin
- **after election**: Stephen Harper