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

↓155604421201LiberalReformBQNDPPCI

|- 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;" |Dissol.
| 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

Vote and seat summaries

Results by province

Party NameBCABSKMBONQCNBNSPENLNTYKTotalLiberal Seats:6 2 1 6 101 26 3   4 4 2    155  Popular vote:28.8 24.0 24.7 34.3 49.5 36.7 32.9 28.4 44.8 37.9 43.1 22.0 38.5 Reform Seats:25 24 8 3                 60  Vote:43.1 54.6 36.0 23.7 19.1 0.3 13.1 9.7 1.5 2.5 11.7 25.3 19.4 Bloc Québécois Seats:          44             44  Vote:          37.9             10.7 New Democrats Seats:3   5 4     2 6       1 21  Vote:18.2 5.7 30.9 23.2 10.7 2.0 18.4 30.4 15.1 22.0 20.9 28.9 11.0 Progressive Conservative Seats:      1 1 5 5 5   3     20  Vote:6.2 14.4 7.8 17.8 18.8 22.2 35.0 30.8 38.3 36.8 16.7 13.9 18.8 Other Seats:        1               1  Vote:0.6 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.4   0.4   0.5 7.6 8.9 0.5 Total seats: 34 26 14 14 103 75 10 11 4 7 2 1 301 Parties that won no seats: Vote:2.0 0.4     0.4 0.1       0.2     0.4 Natural Law Vote:0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.2     0.3  Vote:0.4 0.1   0.4 0.4       0.2     1.0 0.2  Vote:    0.3   0.2               0.1  Vote:0.1     0.2 0.1 0.1             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.

References

Category:1997 elections
Category:1990s elections in Canada
Category:Canadian federal elections
Category:1997 in Canada