Canadian federal election, 2000

The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000.

The governing Liberals won a third consecutive majority government easily, as they had been expected to do when the election was called in October, and throughout the campaign. The election was regarded as a great success by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal Party, but a failure for every other party. Without important issues or a very exciting campaign, voter turn-out reached a record low.

Voter turn-out: 64.1% (corrected from initial reporting of 61.2%)

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Popular vote map with bar graphs showing seats by province and territory

The parties:

The Liberals campaigned on their successful economic record and their relatively scandal-free seven years in office. The Liberals increased their number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons from 155 seats to 172 seats. The Liberals also regained ground in eastern Canada that they lost during the 1997 election due to a change to unemployment rules that hurt seasonal workers.

The Canadian Alliance went into the election with great hopes. New leader Stockwell Day was expected to appeal far more to the crucial Ontario voters, and the Canadian Alliance was hoping for major improvements. The Alliance campaigned on tax cuts, an end to the federal gun registration program, and family values. The campaign was dogged by accusations that the party would allow private health care to operate along-side the public Medicare system and introduce two-tier health care, and for threatening gay rights and abortion rights, all of which the party denied. Day's personal image also suffered, particularly due to gaffes along the campaign trail. The Alliance ended up winning only two Ontario ridings. This led to the eventual downfall of Day the next year. At one point, the Alliance was at 30.5% in the polls, and some thought they could win the election. While they did not do so, they did, however, retain their official opposition status, and increased their numbers in the House of Commons by six seats, from 60 to 66.

The Bloc Québécois failed to attract much interest in their campaign, and Gilles Duceppe, despite performing well in the debates, was not a very popular leader in Quebec. The Bloc's seat total fell from 44 to 38. Many analysts thought the party would do worse, but the other parties split the federalist vote in Quebec, allowing the Bloc to win many seats that they would not have won if the federalist vote had been united.

The New Democratic Party campaigned intensely on the issue of medicare, but failed to make much headway with voters. Their seat count fell from 21 to 13. The NDP's vote remained high in eastern Canada, especially Nova Scotia, where it traditionally has not done so well.

The Progressive Conservatives, despite great hope of regaining their lost glory under former Prime Minister Joe Clark, had a very disappointing election, falling from 20 to 12 seats, and being almost exclusively confined to the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland. The party, however, won the 12 seats needed for Official party status in the House of Commons. Failure to win 12 seats would have marginalized the party in the House of Commons and likely led to a more rapid decline.

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37th Parliament

On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.

Contents

1 National results

2 Results by province

3 Seat by seat results

4 Notes

4.1 10 closest ridings

5 External links

National results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular Vote
Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	1997	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/row	Liberal	Jean Chrétien	301	155	161	172	+11.0%	5,252,031	40.85%	+2.39% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Alliance/row	Canadian Alliance	Stockwell Day	298	60	58	66	+10.0%	3,276,929	25.49%	+6.13%¹ Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ/row	Bloc Québécois	Gilles Duceppe	75	44	44	38	-13.6%	1,377,727	10.72%	+0.04% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP/row	New Democratic	Alexa McDonough	298	21	19	13	-38.1%	1,093,868	8.51%	-2.54% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives/row	Progressive Conservative	Joe Clark	291	20	15	12	-40.0%	1,566,998	12.19%	-6.65% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Green/row	Green	Joan Russow	111	-	-	-	-	104,402	0.81%	+0.38% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Marijuana/row	Marijuana	Marc-Boris St-Maurice	73	*	-	-	*	66,258	0.52%	* Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Action/row	Canadian Action	Paul T. Hellyer	70	-	-	-	-	27,103	0.21%	+0.08% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Natural Law/row	Natural Law	Neil Paterson	69	-	-	-	-	16,577	0.13%	-0.16% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Marxist-Leninist/row	Marxist-Leninist	Sandra L. Smith	84	-	-	-	-	12,068	0.09%	- Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Communist/row	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	52	*	-	-	*	8,776	0.09%	* Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	Independent	29	1	4	-	-100%	17,445	0.14%	-0.32% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	No affiliation	57	-	-	-	-	37,591	0.29%	+0.28%
	Vacant				-
	Total		1,808	301	301	301	-	12,997,185	100%	-
Sources: http://www.elections.ca History of Federal Ridings since 1867 (http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E)

Notes:

"% change" refers to change from previous election

Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election

² - percentage change from Reform Party of Canada in previous election.

Results by province

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Party Name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NU	NT	YK	Total
Liberal	Seats:	5	2	2	5	100	36	6	4	4	5	1	1	1	172 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/row	Popular Vote:	27.7	20.9	20.7	32.5	51.5	44.2	41.7	36.5	47.0	44.9	69.0	45.3	32.9	40.8 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Alliance/row	Canadian Alliance	Seats:	27	23	10	4	2	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	66 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Alliance/row	Vote:	49.4	58.9	47.7	30.4	23.6	6.2	15.7	9.6	5.0	3.9	17.6	27.0	25.5 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ/row	Bloc Québécois	Seats:				38			38 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/BQ/row	Vote:						39.9							10.7 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP/row	New Democratic	Seats:	2	-	2	4	1	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	-	13 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP/row	Vote:	11.3	5.4	26.2	20.9	8.3	1.8	11.7	24.0	9.0	13.1	18.3	26.9	32.1	8.5 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives/row	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	-	1	-	1	-	1	3	4	-	2	-	-	-	12 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives/row	Vote:	7.3	13.5	4.8	14.5	14.4	5.6	30.5	29.1	38.4	34.5	8.1	10.1	7.6	12.2
Liberal	Total seats:			34	26	14	14	101	75	10	11	4	7	1	1	1	301														Canadian Alliance																														Bloc Québécois																							New Democratic																															Progressive Conservative
Parties that won no seats:
Green	Vote:	2.1	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.9	0.6		0.1	0.3		4.5			0.8
Marijuana	Vote:	0.7	0.2		0.1	0.3	1.0	0.1	0.4						0.5 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Action/row	Canadian Action	Vote:	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2									0.2 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Natural Law/row	Natural Law	Vote:	0.1				0.1	0.3	0.2		0.1	0.1				0.1 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Marxist-Leninist/row	Marxist-Leninist	Vote:	0.1				0.1	0.2		0.1					0.1 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Communist/row	Communist	Vote:	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1			0.1 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	Other	Vote:	0.4	0.4		1.0	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.1	4.4			0.4	0.4