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
|- 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;" |&nbsp;
| 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" |&nbsp;
|-
| 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;" |&nbsp;
|-
| 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
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