1993 Canadian Federal Election

The PC collapse

October 25, 1993 · Mulroney & the great collapse · 295 seats, 148 for a majority

The most dramatic result in Canadian history: Kim Campbell's Progressive Conservatives fell from 156 seats to 2, the Bloc Québécois became official opposition in its first election, Reform swept the West, and Jean Chrétien's Liberals took a majority of 177.

Prime Minister before

Kim Campbell

Progressive Conservative

Prime Minister after

Jean Chrétien

Liberal

Government formed

Liberal

majority government

Turnout

69.6%

The result

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Liberal

Jean Chrétien · +96 seats · 41.2%

177

seats

Bloc Québécois

Lucien Bouchard · +44 seats · 13.5%

seats

Reform

Preston Manning · +51 seats · 18.7%

seats

New Democratic

Audrey McLaughlin · -35 seats · 6.9%

seats

Progressive Conservative

Kim Campbell · -154 seats · 16.0%

seats


Liberal	Jean Chrétien	177	+96	5,647,952	41.2%	+9.3
Bloc Québécois	Lucien Bouchard	54	+44	1,846,024	13.5%	—
Reform	Preston Manning	52	+51	2,559,245	18.7%	+16.6
New Democratic	Audrey McLaughlin	9	-35	939,575	6.9%	-13.5
Progressive Conservative	Kim Campbell	2	-154	2,186,422	16.0%	-27.0

1 further seat went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.

The result by province & territory

Seats won and vote share in each province and territory. Blank cells mean the party did not contest the province; the results table splits allied labels (Liberal-Conservatives, farmers' candidates, independents) that the headline figures group together.

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Liberal

BC 6 (28.1%)AB 4 (25.1%)SK 5 (32.1%)MB 12 (45.0%)ON 98 (52.9%)QC 19 (33.0%)NB 9 (56.0%)NS 11 (52.0%)PE 4 (60.1%)NL 7 (67.3%)NT 2 (65.4%)YT 0 (23.2%)

177

seats

Bloc Québécois

QC 54 (49.3%)

seats

Reform

BC 24 (36.4%)AB 22 (52.3%)SK 4 (27.2%)MB 1 (22.4%)ON 1 (20.1%)NB 0 (8.5%)NS 0 (13.3%)PE 0 (1.0%)NL 0 (1.0%)NT 0 (8.4%)YT 0 (13.1%)

seats

New Democratic

BC 2 (15.5%)AB 0 (4.1%)SK 5 (26.6%)MB 1 (16.7%)ON 0 (6.0%)QC 0 (1.5%)NB 0 (4.9%)NS 0 (6.8%)PE 0 (5.2%)NL 0 (3.5%)NT 0 (7.7%)YT 1 (43.4%)

seats

Progressive Conservative

BC 0 (13.5%)AB 0 (14.6%)SK 0 (11.3%)MB 0 (11.9%)ON 0 (17.6%)QC 1 (13.5%)NB 1 (27.9%)NS 0 (23.5%)PE 0 (32.0%)NL 0 (26.7%)NT 0 (16.2%)YT 0 (17.7%)

seats

Other

BC 0 (0.3%)AB 0 (0.4%)SK 0 (1.0%)MB 0 (0.1%)ON 0 (0.8%)QC 1 (1.1%)NB 0 (1.3%)NS 0 (2.1%)

seats

Total seats

295


Liberal	628.1%	425.1%	532.1%	1245.0%	9852.9%	1933.0%	956.0%	1152.0%	460.1%	767.3%	265.4%	023.2%	17741.3%
Bloc Québécois						5449.3%							5413.5%
Reform	2436.4%	2252.3%	427.2%	122.4%	120.1%		08.5%	013.3%	01.0%	01.0%	08.4%	013.1%	5218.7%
New Democratic	215.5%	04.1%	526.6%	116.7%	06.0%	01.5%	04.9%	06.8%	05.2%	03.5%	07.7%	143.4%	96.9%
Progressive Conservative	013.5%	014.6%	011.3%	011.9%	017.6%	113.5%	127.9%	023.5%	032.0%	026.7%	016.2%	017.7%	216.0%
Other	00.3%	00.4%	01.0%	00.1%	00.8%	11.1%	01.3%	02.1%					10.8%
Total seats	32	26	14	14	99	75	10	11	4	7	2	1	295