Canadian General Election 2015
The 42 Canadian general election ( english 42nd Canadian General Election , French 42e élection fédérale canadienne ) was held on October 19, 2015. 338 members were elected Canadian House (Engl. House of Commons , fr. Chambre des Communes ). The clear winner was the Liberal Party , which had previously been the third-strongest force and now received the absolute majority of the seats. The new Prime Minister was Justin Trudeau , who succeeded the previous Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper .
background
The 2011 general election resulted in the confirmation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party , while the New Democratic Party (NDP) became the strongest opposition force for the first time and the Liberal Party slipped to third place. Michael Ignatieff resigned as chairman of the Liberals, as did Gilles Duceppe of the separatist Bloc Québécois after both of them had lost their seats in parliament. In July 2011, Jack Layton resigned as NDP chairman for health reasons; he died a few weeks later. Thomas Mulcair was elected Layton's successor in March 2012 .
After Bob Rae had taken over the leadership of the Liberals on an interim basis, Justin Trudeau , the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , was elected in April 2013 . The Bloc Québécois went through turbulent times: the new chairman Daniel Paillé resigned in December 2013 and was replaced by Mario Beaulieu in June 2014, followed by Gilles Duceppe in June 2015. In October 2014, one member of the Bloc and one member of the NDP founded the Forces et démocratie party , which was represented with two seats in the lower house.
Stephen Harper applied to Governor General David Johnston on August 2 to dissolve the House of Commons. As the legislature reached its full four years, the election took place on the third Monday in October, as required by the Canada Elections Act . The election campaign lasted eleven weeks, making it the longest in Canadian history .
The chairmen of the main parties:
Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party)
Stephen Harper (Conservative Party)
Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic Party)
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois)
Elizabeth May (Green Party)
Increase in the number of seats
The number of seats in the House of Commons increased from 308 to 338. Since the last adjustment in 2003, the provinces with the highest population growth have been increasingly underrepresented; H. the number of residents per MP was well above the average. Since the Canadian constitution guarantees the provinces a minimum number of seats on the basis of various criteria, an alignment without changing the constitution could only be made by means of a higher total number of seats. To this end, Parliament passed the Fair Representation Act . This law came into force on December 16, 2011. The 30 additional seats are spread across the following provinces: Alberta (+6, new 34), British Columbia (+6, new 42), Ontario (+15, new 121) and Québec (+3, new 78). Otherwise, the number of seats remained unchanged: Manitoba 14, New Brunswick 10, Newfoundland and Labrador 7, Nova Scotia 11, Prince Edward Island 4, Saskatchewan 14 and 1 each for the three territories.
Opinion polls
The following graph shows the average values of the opinion polls since the official start of the election campaign on August 2nd:
Results
The turnout was 69.1%, the highest it has been since 1993.
Overall result
Official final result:
| Political party | Chairman | candidates data |
Seats 2011 |
upon dissolution |
Seats 2015 |
+/- | be right | proportion of | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Justin Trudeau | 338 | 34 | 36 | 184 | + 150 | 6,943,276 | 39.47% | + 20.56% | |
| Conservative Party | Stephen Harper | 338 | 166 | 159 | 99 | - 67 | 5,613,614 | 31.91% | - 7.71% | |
| New Democratic Party | Thomas Mulcair | 338 | 103 | 95 | 44 | - 59 | 3,470,350 | 19.73% | - 10.89% | |
| Bloc Québécois | Gilles Duceppe | 78 | 4th | 2 | 10 | + 6 | 821.144 | 4.67% | - 1.38% | |
| Green party | Elizabeth May | 336 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 602.944 | 3.43% | - 0.48% | ||
| Independent / non-partisan | 80 | 8th | 49,616 | 0.28% | - 0.21% | |||||
| Libertarian party | Tim Moen | 72 | 36,772 | 0.21% | + 0.17% | |||||
| Christian Heritage | Rod Taylor | 30th | 15,232 | 0.09% | - 0.04% | |||||
| Marxist-Leninists | Anna Di Carlo | 70 | 8,838 | 0.05% | - 0.02% | |||||
| Forces et democratie | Jean-François Fortin | 17th | 2 | 8,274 | 0.05% | + 0.05% | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Sébastien Corriveau | 27 | 7,263 | 0.04% | + 0.01% | |||||
| Progressive Canadian Party | Sinclair Stevens | 8th | 4,476 | 0.03% | - 0.01% | |||||
| Communist Party | Miguel Figueroa | 26th | 4,393 | 0.02% | ||||||
| Animal Alliance | Liz White | 8th | 1,699 | 0.01% | ||||||
| Marijuana party | Blair Longley | 8th | 1,557 | 0.01% | ||||||
| Democratic Advancement | Stephen Garvey | 4th | 1,187 | 0.01% | + 0.01% | |||||
| Pirate party | Roderick Lim | 5 | 908 | < 0.01% | - 0.01% | |||||
| Canadian Action Party | Jeremy Arney | 3 | 401 | < 0.01% | - 0.01% | |||||
| other small parties | 6th | 834 | < 0.01% | |||||||
| vacant | 4th | |||||||||
| total | 1792 | 308 | 308 | 338 | + 30 | 17,592,778 | 100.0% | |||
Result by provinces and territories
| Political party | BC | FROM | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NU | NT | YT | total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Seats | 17th | 4th | 1 | 7th | 80 | 40 | 10 | 11 | 4th | 7th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 184 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 35.2 | 24.6 | 23.9 | 44.6 | 44.8 | 35.7 | 51.6 | 61.9 | 58.3 | 64.5 | 47.2 | 48.3 | 53.6 | 39.5 | ||
| Conservative Party | Seats | 10 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 33 | 12 | 99 | ||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 30.0 | 59.5 | 48.5 | 37.3 | 35.0 | 16.7 | 25.3 | 17.9 | 19.3 | 10.3 | 24.8 | 18.0 | 24.0 | 31.9 | ||
| New Democratic Party | Seats | 14th | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8th | 16 | 44 | ||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 25.9 | 11.6 | 25.1 | 13.8 | 16.6 | 25.4 | 18.3 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 21.0 | 26.5 | 30.8 | 19.5 | 19.7 | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Seats | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 19.3 | 4.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Green party | Seats | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 8.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 6.0 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.4 | ||
| Independent | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 0.2 | |||||
Voting cards
The following maps show the parties' votes by state and constituency.
Liberal Party:- below 10%
- 10-19%
- 20-29%
- 30-39%
- 40-49%
- 50-59%
- 60-69%
- more than 70%
Conservative Party:- below 10%
- 10-19%
- 20-29%
- 30-39%
- 40-49%
- 50-59%
- 60-69%
- more than 70%
New Democratic Party:- below 10%
- 10-19%
- 20-29%
- 30-39%
- 40-49%
- 50-59%
- 60-69%
- more than 70%
Bloc Quebecois:- below 10%
- 10-19%
- 20-29%
- 30-39%
- 40-49%
- 50-59%
- 60-69%
- more than 70%
Green Party:- less than 1%
- 1 %
- 2%
- 3%
- 4%
- 5%
- 6%
- over 7%
- no participation
See also
Web links
- Elections Canada (Electoral Authority)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Election by the House of Commons (Canada) planned for November 3, 2015, swearing in by the Governor, on behalf of the Queen , within 24 hours (see macleans.ca )
- ↑ Canada Elections Act (p. 76) (pdf)
- ↑ Canada election 2015: Stephen Harper confirms the start of 11-week federal campaign. CBC News, August 2, 2015, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ^ Fair Representation Act. Government of Canada, September 2, 2015, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ^ House of Commons Seat Allocation by Province. Elections Canada, March 23, 2012, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Federal election voter turnout reached 69 per cent, highest in 22 years: updated vote count. CBC News, November 5, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Canada votes 2015. (txt) Elections Canada, accessed on December 3, 2015 (English).
