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
Conservative
Stephen Harper · +16 seats · 37.6%
143
seats
Liberal
Stéphane Dion · -18 seats · 26.3%
77
seats
Bloc Québécois
Gilles Duceppe · +1 seats · 10.0%
49
seats
New Democratic
Jack Layton · +7 seats · 18.2%
37
seats
Green
Elizabeth May · -1 seats · 6.8%
0
seats
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
BC 22 (44.5%)AB 27 (64.7%)SK 13 (53.8%)MB 9 (48.9%)ON 51 (39.2%)QC 10 (21.7%)NB 6 (39.4%)NS 3 (26.1%)PE 1 (36.2%)NL 0 (16.6%)NU 1 (34.9%)NT 0 (37.6%)YT 0 (32.7%)
143
seats
Liberal
BC 5 (19.3%)AB 0 (11.4%)SK 1 (14.9%)MB 1 (19.1%)ON 38 (33.8%)QC 14 (23.8%)NB 3 (32.5%)NS 5 (29.8%)PE 3 (47.7%)NL 6 (46.8%)NU 0 (29.1%)NT 0 (13.6%)YT 1 (45.8%)
77
seats
Bloc Québécois
QC 49 (38.1%)
49
seats
New Democratic
BC 9 (26.1%)AB 1 (12.7%)SK 0 (25.5%)MB 4 (24.0%)ON 17 (18.2%)QC 1 (12.2%)NB 1 (21.9%)NS 2 (28.9%)PE 0 (9.8%)NL 1 (33.7%)NU 0 (27.6%)NT 1 (41.4%)YT 0 (8.7%)
37
seats
Independent / No affiliation
QC 1 (0.6%)NS 1 (6.6%)
2
seats
Total seats
308