Canadian General Election 2019
The 43 Canadian general election ( english 43rd Canadian General Election , French 43e élection fédérale canadienne ) was held on October 21 of 2019. The 338 members of the Canadian House of Commons (English House of Commons , French Chambre des Communes ) were elected.
The Liberal Party , led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , remained the strongest force, but lost its previous absolute majority and is expected to form a minority government. Its 33.1% voter share is the lowest of any ruling party in Canadian history. While that could Conservative Party of Andrew Scheer win with 34.4% a slightly higher share of the vote, but to this failed due to the high voter concentration in Alberta and Saskatchewan barely noticeable seat profits down because she cut below average in the rest of the country.
background
The 2015 general election resulted in a majority government of the Liberal Party of Canada led by Justin Trudeau . The Conservative Party of Canada became the official opposition and the New Democrats (NDP) became the third largest party. While members of the Bloc Québécois and the Greens were elected to parliament, both did not reach the required number of MPs for official group status. Shortly after the election, the outgoing Prime Minister and party leader of the Conservatives, Stephen Harper, as well as the party leader of the Bloc Québécois Gilles Duceppe, announced his resignation.
The conservative party elected a new chairman on May 27, 2017 for the first time in 13 years. In the decisive ballot, Andrew Scheer prevailed with less than one percent advantage over Maxime Bernier . In the following year, Bernier founded his own party, the People's Party of Canada , which he tried to establish in the political spectrum on the right of the Conservative Party.
The chairman of the NDP, Thomas Mulcair , initially remained in office after the election, but received only 48% of the votes when the leadership of the NDP was reviewed in April 2016. As a result, the party held a new election on October 1, 2017, in which Jagmeet Singh , until then an NDP MP in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario , was elected as his successor. He made it into the Canadian House of Commons in the Burnaby South constituency by-election in February 2019. At the Bloc Québécois, Martine Ouellet succeeded Duceppe in 2017, who lost a vote of confidence the following year and was replaced by Yves-François Blanchet on January 17, 2019 .
Leading candidates of the parties elected to parliament by 2019:
Justin Trudeau (Liberal)
Andrew Scheer (Conservative)
Jagmeet Singh (NDP)
Elizabeth May (Greens)
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Electoral reform not implemented
In June 2015, Justin Trudeau promised to reform the electoral system if he is elected, saying: "We pledge to ensure that 2015 is the last election to be held on a first-past-the-post principle " . The New Democrats and the Greens also called for reform in their election programs, while the Conservatives supported a referendum on voting rights.
In the new legislative period, a special committee for electoral reform with representatives from all five parties in parliament was formed. The report of the Committee on Strengthening Democracy in Canada, Principles, Process and Public Engagement for Electoral Reform , was presented in December 2016 and recommended the introduction of a proportional electoral system after a national referendum, but without committing to a specific proposal for its design . In February 2017, the government withdrew its support for electoral reform. She cited, among other things, a survey on the web portal mydemocracy.ca , in which 360,000 Canadians had participated, which had "no clear preference or even a consensus".
Opinion polls
The following graph shows the average values of the opinion polls since the official start of the election campaign on September 11th:
Results
The turnout was 65.95%, around 2.5 percentage points lower than in 2015.
Overall result
Interim result after 99.67% of the votes counted:
| Political party | Chairman | candidates data |
Seats 2015 |
upon dissolution |
Seats 2019 |
+/- | be right | proportion of | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Justin Trudeau | 184 | 177 | 157 | - 27 | 33.1% | - 6.4% | |||
| Conservative Party | Andrew Scheer | 99 | 95 | 121 | + 22 | 34.4% | + 3.5% | |||
| New Democratic Party | Jagmeet Singh | 44 | 39 | 24 | - 20 | 15.9% | - 2.8% | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Yves-François Blanchet | 10 | 10 | 32 | + 22 | 7.7% | + 3.0% | |||
| Green party | Elizabeth May | 1 | 2 | 3 | + 2 | 6.5% | + 3.0% | |||
| Independent | 0 | 8th | 1 | + 1 | ||||||
Result by provinces and territories
| Political party | BC | FROM | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NU | NT | YT | total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Seats | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 79 | 35 | 6th | 10 | 4th | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 157 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 26.1 | 13.7 | 11.6 | 26.3 | 41.5 | 34.2 | 37.6 | 41.4 | 43.6 | 44.7 | 31.0 | 40.0 | 33.4 | 33.1 | ||
| Conservative Party | Seats | 17th | 33 | 14th | 7th | 36 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 34.1 | 69.2 | 64.3 | 45.4 | 33.2 | 16.0 | 32.8 | 25.6 | 27.4 | 28.0 | 25.8 | 25.8 | 33.1 | 34.4 | ||
| New Democratic Party | Seats | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 24.4 | 11.5 | 19.5 | 20.7 | 16.8 | 10.7 | 9.4 | 19.0 | 7.6 | 23.9 | 41.2 | 21.8 | 21.8 | 15.9 | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Seats | 32 | 32 | |||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 32.5 | 7.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Green party | Seats | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 12.4 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 5.1 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 17.0 | 11.0 | 20.9 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 10.6 | 10.3 | 6.5 | ||
| People's party | Seats | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Percentage ownership % | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.6 | |||
| Independent | Seats | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | |||||||||
The independent candidate elected is Jody Wilson-Raybould , who served in Justin Trudeau's 29th Canadian cabinet until February 2019 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sarah Turnbull: Trudeau says new cabinet will be sworn in Nov. 20, rules out coalition. CTV , October 23, 2019, accessed on October 25, 2019 .
- ^ Joseph Brean: All-time low share of popular vote is enough for Liberals to win power. National Post , October 22, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
- ^ Kathleen Harris: Andrew Scheer elected new Conservative leader. CBC News , May 27, 2017, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ^ Charlie Pinkerton: Maxime Bernier announces the People's Party of Canada. iPolitics.ca, September 14, 2018, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ^ Ian Bailey: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wins Burnaby South by-election, clearing key hurdle ahead of federal campaign. The Globe and Mail , February 25, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ^ Niko Block: Electoral Reform in Canadan. The Canadian Encyclopedia , February 1, 2017, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Aaron Wherry, John Paul Tasker: Minister 'disappointed' as electoral reform committee recommends referendum on proportional representation. CBC News , December 1, 2016, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Opposition accuses Trudeau of 'betrayal' as Liberals abandon promise of electoral reform. CBC News , February 1, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Canadian election drew nearly 66% of registered voters. CBC News , October 22, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Preliminary Results. Elections Canada, October 22, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
