2008 Canadian Federal Election
October 14, 2008 · The modern battleground · 308 seats, 155 for a majority
Harper's gamble on an early election strengthened his minority to 143 seats against Stéphane Dion's Liberals, on the lowest turnout in Canadian federal history, 58.8%.
Prime Minister before
Stephen Harper
Conservative
Prime Minister (continued)
Stephen Harper
Conservative
Government formed
Conservative
minority government
Turnout
58.8%
The result
| Share of House | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Stephen Harper | 143 | +16 | 5,209,069 | 37.6% | +1.4 | |
| Liberal | Stéphane Dion | 77 | -18 | 3,633,185 | 26.3% | -4.0 | |
| Bloc Québécois | Gilles Duceppe | 49 | +1 | 1,379,991 | 10.0% | -0.5 | |
| New Democratic | Jack Layton | 37 | +7 | 2,515,288 | 18.2% | +0.7 | |
| Green | Elizabeth May | 0 | -1 | 937,613 | 6.8% | +2.3 |
2 further seats 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.
| Conservative | 2244.5% | 2764.7% | 1353.8% | 948.9% | 5139.2% | 1021.7% | 639.4% | 326.1% | 136.2% | 016.6% | 134.9% | 037.6% | 032.7% | 14337.7% |
| Liberal | 519.3% | 011.4% | 114.9% | 119.1% | 3833.8% | 1423.8% | 332.5% | 529.8% | 347.7% | 646.8% | 029.1% | 013.6% | 145.8% | 7726.3% |
| Bloc Québécois | 4938.1% | 4910.0% | ||||||||||||
| New Democratic | 926.1% | 112.7% | 025.5% | 424.0% | 1718.2% | 112.2% | 121.9% | 228.9% | 09.8% | 133.7% | 027.6% | 141.4% | 08.7% | 3718.2% |
| Independent / No affiliation | 10.6% | 16.6% | 20.7% | |||||||||||
| Total seats | 36 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 106 | 75 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 308 |