2000 Canadian federal election

The **2000 Canadian federal election** was held on November 27, 2000, to elect 301 Members of Parliament of the House of Commons of Canada of the 37th Parliament of Canada.

## Results

|colspan=5|↓|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:;width:57%;color:white"|**172**|style="background:;width:21.9%;color:white"|**66**|style="background:;width:12.6%;color:white"|**38**|style="background:;width:4.3%;color:white"|**13**|style="background:;width:3.9%;color:white"|**12**|
|style="color:"|**Liberal**|style="color:"|**Canadian Alliance**|style="color:"|**BQ**|style="color:"|**NDP**|style="color:"|**PC**|

|- 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;" |1997
| 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;" |155
| style="text-align:right;" |161
| style="text-align:right;" |**172**
| style="text-align:right;" |+11.0%
| style="text-align:right;" |5,252,031
| style="text-align:right;" |40.85%
| style="text-align:right;" |+2.39pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Stockwell Day
| style="text-align:right;" |298
| style="text-align:right;" |60
| style="text-align:right;" |58
| style="text-align:right;" |**66**
| style="text-align:right;" |+10.0%
| style="text-align:right;" |3,276,929
| style="text-align:right;" |25.49%
| style="text-align:right;" |+6.13pp<sup>1</sup>

| style="text-align:left;" | Gilles Duceppe
| style="text-align:right;" |75
| style="text-align:right;" |44
| style="text-align:right;" |44
| style="text-align:right;" |**38**
| style="text-align:right;" |-13.6%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,377,727
| style="text-align:right;" |10.72%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.05pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Alexa McDonough
| style="text-align:right;" |298
| style="text-align:right;" |21
| style="text-align:right;" |19
| style="text-align:right;" |**13**
| style="text-align:right;" |-38.1%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,093,868
| style="text-align:right;" |8.51%
| style="text-align:right;" |-2.54pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Joe Clark
| style="text-align:right;" |291
| style="text-align:right;" |20
| style="text-align:right;" |15
| style="text-align:right;" |**12**
| style="text-align:right;" |-40.0%
| style="text-align:right;" |1,566,998
| style="text-align:right;" |12.19%
| style="text-align:right;" |-6.65pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Joan Russow
| style="text-align:right;" |111
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |104,402
| style="text-align:right;" |0.81%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.38pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Marc-Boris St-Maurice
| style="text-align:right;" |73
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |66,258
| style="text-align:right;" |0.52%
| style="text-align:right;" |*

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Independent and No Affiliation
| style="text-align:right;" |86
| style="text-align:right;" |1
| style="text-align:right;" |4
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-100%
| style="text-align:right;" |55,036
| style="text-align:right;" |0.43%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.04pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Paul T. Hellyer
| style="text-align:right;" |70
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |27,103
| style="text-align:right;" |0.21%
| style="text-align:right;" |+0.08pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Neil Paterson
| style="text-align:right;" |69
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |16,577
| style="text-align:right;" |0.13%
| style="text-align:right;" |-0.16pp

| style="text-align:left;" | Sandra L. Smith
| style="text-align:right;" |84
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |12,068
| style="text-align:right;" |0.09%
| style="text-align:right;" |-

| style="text-align:left;" | Miguel Figueroa
| style="text-align:right;" |52
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:right;" |*
| style="text-align:right;" |8,776
| style="text-align:right;" |0.07%
| style="text-align:right;" |*
|-

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Vacant
| style="text-align:right;" |-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="5" | 
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3" |**Total**
| style="text-align:right;" |**1,808**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**301**
| style="text-align:right;" |**±0.0%**
| style="text-align:right;" |**12,857,773**
| style="text-align:right;" |**100%**
| style="text-align:right;" |-
|-
| 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

<sup>1</sup> – percentage change from Reform Party of Canada in previous election.

### Results by province

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|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Liberal|Seats:|align="right"|5|align="right"|2|align="right"|2|align="right"|5|align="right"|100|align="right"|36|align="right"|6|align="right"|4|align="right"|4|align="right"|5|align="right"|1|align="right"|1|align="right"|1|align="right"|172|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Popular vote:|align="right"|27.7|align="right"|20.9|align="right"|20.7|align="right"|32.5|align="right"|51.5|align="right"|44.2|align="right"|41.7|align="right"|36.5|align="right"|47.0|align="right"|44.9|align="right"|69.0|align="right"|45.3|align="right"|32.9|align="right"|40.8|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Canadian Alliance|Seats:|align="right"|27|align="right"|23|align="right"|10|align="right"|4|align="right"|2|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|66|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"|49.4|align="right"|58.9|align="right"|47.7|align="right"|30.4|align="right"|23.6|align="right"|6.2|align="right"|15.7|align="right"|9.6|align="right"|5.0|align="right"|3.9|align="right"||align="right"|17.6|align="right"|27.0|align="right"|25.5|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Bloc Québécois|Seats:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|38|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|38|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|39.9|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|10.7|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New Democratic|Seats:|align="right"|2|align="right"|-|align="right"|2|align="right"|4|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|3|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|13|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"|11.3|align="right"|5.4|align="right"|26.2|align="right"|20.9|align="right"|8.3|align="right"|1.8|align="right"|11.7|align="right"|24.0|align="right"|9.0|align="right"|13.1|align="right"|18.3|align="right"|26.9|align="right"|32.1|align="right"|8.5|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Progressive Conservative|Seats:|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|3|align="right"|4|align="right"|-|align="right"|2|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|12|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"|7.3|align="right"|13.5|align="right"|4.8|align="right"|14.5|align="right"|14.4|align="right"|5.6|align="right"|30.5|align="right"|29.1|align="right"|38.4|align="right"|34.5|align="right"|8.1|align="right"|10.1|align="right"|7.6|align="right"|12.2|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=17|**Parties that won no seats:**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"|2.1|align="right"|0.5|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.9|align="right"|0.6|align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.3|align="right"||align="right"|4.5|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.8|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Vote:|align="right"|0.7|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|1.0|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.4|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.5|Vote:|align="right"|0.8|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.2|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Other|Vote:|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.4|align="right"||align="right"|1.0|align="right"|0.6|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|4.4|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.4|

Source: Elections Canada

## Notes

- **Number of parties**: 11
    - **First appearance**: Marijuana Party of Canada
    - **Reappearance after hiatus**: Communist Party of Canada
    - **Final appearance**: Natural Law Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
    - **First-and-only appearance**: Canadian Alliance

## Other websites

- Elections Canada: 2000 election
- Predicting the 2000 Canadian Election

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2000 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **previous election**: 1997 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 1997
- **next election**: 2004 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 2004
- **seats for election**: 301 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 151
- **turnout**: 64.1% (2.9Percentage Point, pp)
- **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**: 155 seats, 38.46%
- **seats before1**: 161
- **seats1**: **172**
- **seat change1**: 11
- **popular vote1**: **5,252,031**
- **percentage1**: **40.85%**
- **swing1**: 2.39Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 2000 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**: Jean Chrétien
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **after election**: Jean Chrétien
- **previous mps**: 36th Canadian Parliament
- **elected mps**: List of House members of the 37th Parliament of Canada
- **leader2**: Stockwell Day
- **leader since2**: Canadian Alliance leadership elections#2000 leadership election, June 24, 2000
- **leaders seat2**: Okanagan—Coquihalla
- **last election2**: 60 seats, 19.35%
- **seats before2**: 60
- **seats2**: 66
- **seat change2**: 6
- **popular vote2**: 3,276,929
- **percentage2**: 25.49%
- **swing2**: 6.13Percentage Point, pp
- **leader3**: Gilles Duceppe
- **leader since3**: 1997 Bloc Québécois leadership election, March 15, 1997
- **leaders seat3**: Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Laurier—
Sainte-Marie
- **last election3**: 44 seats, 10.67%
- **seats before3**: 44
- **seats3**: 38
- **seat change3**: 6
- **popular vote3**: 1,377,727
- **percentage3**: 10.72%
- **swing3**: 0.04Percentage Point, pp
- **leader4**: Alexa McDonough
- **leader since4**: 1995 New Democratic Party leadership election, October 14, 1995
- **leaders seat4**: Halifax (electoral district), Halifax
- **last election4**: 21 seats, 11.05%
- **seats before4**: 19
- **seats4**: 13
- **seat change4**: 6
- **popular vote4**: 1,093,868
- **percentage4**: 8.51%
- **swing4**: 2.54Percentage Point, pp
- **leader5**: Joe Clark
- **leader since5**: 1998 Progressive Conservative leadership election, November 14, 1998
- **leaders seat5**: Calgary Centre
- **last election5**: 20 seats, 18.84%
- **seats before5**: 15
- **seats5**: 12
- **seat change5**: 3
- **popular vote5**: 1,566,998
- **percentage5**: 12.19%
- **swing5**: 6.65Percentage Point, pp