2004 Canadian federal election

The 2004 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th General Election), was held on June 28, 2004, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 38th Parliament of Canada.

2004 Canadian federal election

June 28, 2004 (2004-06-28)
308 seats in the House of Commons 155 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	60.9% (3.2pp)
First party Second party   Leader Paul Martin Stephen Harper Party Liberal Conservative Leader since November 14, 2003 March 20, 2004 Leader's seat LaSalle—Émard Calgary Southwest Last election 172 seats, 40.85% 78 seats, 37.68%1 Seats before 168 72 Seats won 135 99 Seat change 33 27 Popular vote 4,982,220 4,019,498 Percentage 36.73% 29.63% Swing 4.12pp 8.05pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Gilles Duceppe Jack Layton Party Bloc Québécois New Democratic Leader since March 15, 1997 January 24, 2003 Leader's seat Laurier Toronto—Danforth Last election 38 seats, 10.72% 13 seats, 8.51% Seats before 33 14 Seats won 54 19 Seat change 21 5 Popular vote 1,680,109 2,127,403 Percentage 12.39% 15.68% Swing 1.67pp 7.17pp
Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by province but instead via results by each riding.
Prime Minister before election Paul Martin Liberal Prime Minister after election Paul Martin Liberal

National results

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135	99	54	19	1
Liberal	Conservative	Bloc Québécois	NDP	O

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Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				2000	Dissol.	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Paul Martin	308	172	168	135	-21.5%	4,982,220	36.73%	-4.12pp
	Conservative1	Stephen Harper	308	78	72	99	+37.5%	4,019,498	29.63%	-8.05pp
	Bloc Québécois	Gilles Duceppe	75	38	33	54	+42.1%	1,680,109	12.39%	+1.67pp
	New Democratic	Jack Layton	308	13	14	19	+46.2%	2,127,403	15.68%	+7.17pp
	Independent and No Affiliation		64	-	10	1	-	64,864	0.48%	+0.05pp
	Green	Jim Harris	308	-	-	-	-	582,247	4.29%	+3.48pp
	Christian Heritage	Ron Gray	62	*	-	-	*	40,335	0.30%	–
	Marijuana	Marc-Boris St-Maurice	71	-	-	-	-	33,276	0.25%	-0.27pp
	Progressive Canadian	Ernie Schreiber	16	*	-	-	*	10,872	0.08%	*
	Canadian Action	Connie Fogal	44	-	-	-	-	8,807	0.06%	-0.15pp
	Marxist–Leninist	Sandra L. Smith	76	-	-	-	-	8,696	0.06%	-0.03pp
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	35	-	-	-	-	4,426	0.03%	-0.04pp
	Libertarian	Jean-Serge Brisson	8	*	-	-	*	1,949	0.01%	*
	Vacant				4
Total			1,683	301	301	308	+2.3%	13,564,702	100%
Sources: Elections Canada Web Site -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

Notes:

"% change" refers to change from previous election

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. In the case of the CHP, which did have 46 candidates in the previous election, the party did not have official status and is not officially compared.

¹ Conservative Party results are compared to the combined totals of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party in the 2000 election.

Vote and seat summaries

Popular vote
Liberal			36.73%
Conservative			29.63%
NDP			15.68%
Bloc Québécois			12.39%
Green			4.29%
Others			1.28%

Seat totals
Liberal			43.83%
Conservative			32.14%
Bloc Québécois			17.53%
NDP			6.17%
Independents			0.32%

Results by province

Party name			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	NU	NT	YK	Total
	Liberal	Seats:	8	2	1	3	75	21	7	6	4	5	1	1	1	135
		Popular vote:	28.6	22.0	27.2	33.2	44.7	33.9	44.6	39.7	52.5	48.0	51.3	39.4	45.7	36.7
	Conservative	Seats:	22	26	13	7	24	-	2	3	-	2	-	-	-	99
		Vote:	36.3	61.7	41.8	39.1	31.5	8.8	31.1	28.0	30.7	32.3	14.4	17.2	20.9	29.6
	Bloc Québécois	Seats:						54								54
		Vote:						48.9								12.4
	New Democratic	Seats:	5	-	-	4	7	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	19
		Vote:	26.6	9.5	23.4	23.5	18.1	4.6	20.6	28.4	12.5	17.5	15.2	39.1	25.7	15.7
	No Affiliation	Seats:	1		-		-									1
		Vote:	1.0		x		x									0.1
Total seats:			36	28	14	14	106	75	10	11	4	7	1	1	1	308
Parties that won no seats:
	Green	Vote:	6.3	6.1	2.7	2.7	4.4	3.2	3.4	3.3	4.2	1.6	3.3	4.3	4.6	4.3
	Christian Heritage	Vote:	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.9	0.5	x		0.1	0.1				0.8	0.3
	Marijuana	Vote:	0.2	0.2		0.4	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1					2.4	0.2
	Progressive Canadian	Vote:		x			0.2		0.3							0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Vote:	0.1	x			0.1	0.1		x						0.1
	Canadian Action	Vote:	0.3	0.1		x	x	x	0.1							0.1
	Communist	Vote:	0.1	x		0.9	x	x								x
	Libertarian	Vote:	0.1				x	x								x
	Independents	Vote:	0.3	x	4.6	x	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1		0.6	15.7			0.3

Source: Elections Canada

2004 Canadian Federal Election Media

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  Gilles Duceppe 2011-04-01 (cropped)

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  2004 Canadian General Election

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  Jim Harris, Greens Leader

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  Voting intentions during the 2004 Canadian federal election campaign

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    NDP: 19 seats

References

Notes

General

• Dornan, Chris; Pammett, Jon H. (2004), The Canadian general election of 2004, Dundurn Group, ISBN 1-55002-516-3