2011 Canadian Federal Election
The orange waveMay 2, 2011 · The modern battleground · 308 seats, 155 for a majority
Stephen Harper finally won his majority while Jack Layton's NDP surged to 103 seats and official opposition for the first time, the 'orange wave' sweeping Quebec. The Liberals fell to third with their worst result ever, and the Bloc was reduced to four seats.
Prime Minister before
Stephen Harper
Conservative
Prime Minister (continued)
Stephen Harper
Conservative
Government formed
Conservative
majority government
Turnout
61.1%
The result
Conservative
Stephen Harper · +23 seats · 39.6%
166
seats
New Democratic
Jack Layton · +67 seats · 30.6%
103
seats
Liberal
Michael Ignatieff · -43 seats · 18.9%
34
seats
Bloc Québécois
Gilles Duceppe · -43 seats · 6.0%
4
seats
Green
Elizabeth May · +1 seats · 3.9%
1
seats
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 21 (45.5%)AB 27 (66.8%)SK 13 (56.3%)MB 11 (53.5%)ON 73 (44.4%)QC 5 (16.5%)NB 8 (43.9%)NS 4 (36.7%)PE 1 (41.2%)NL 1 (28.4%)YT 1 (33.8%)NT 0 (32.1%)NU 1 (49.9%)
166
seats
New Democratic
BC 12 (32.5%)AB 1 (16.8%)SK 0 (32.3%)MB 2 (25.8%)ON 22 (25.6%)QC 59 (42.9%)NB 1 (29.8%)NS 3 (30.3%)PE 0 (15.4%)NL 2 (32.6%)YT 0 (14.4%)NT 1 (45.8%)NU 0 (19.4%)
103
seats
Liberal
BC 2 (13.4%)AB 0 (9.3%)SK 1 (8.6%)MB 1 (16.6%)ON 11 (25.3%)QC 7 (14.2%)NB 1 (22.6%)NS 4 (28.9%)PE 3 (41.0%)NL 4 (37.9%)YT 0 (33.0%)NT 0 (18.4%)NU 0 (28.6%)
34
seats
Bloc Québécois
QC 4 (23.4%)
4
seats
Green
BC 1 (7.7%)AB 0 (5.3%)SK 0 (2.7%)MB 0 (3.6%)ON 0 (3.8%)QC 0 (2.1%)NB 0 (3.2%)NS 0 (4.0%)PE 0 (2.4%)NL 0 (0.9%)YT 0 (18.9%)NT 0 (3.1%)NU 0 (2.1%)
1
seats
Independents and minor parties
BC 0 (0.2%)AB 0 (1.3%)SK 0 (0.2%)MB 0 (0.1%)ON 0 (0.2%)QC 0 (0.6%)NB 0 (0.5%)NL 0 (0.3%)
0
seats
Total seats
308