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Canada 2019 federal election

What was the result of the 2019 federal election in Canada?

Liberal Party of Canada won 157 of 338 seats with 33.1% of the vote. 71.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.

  • Canada
  • Held:
  • Final result
  • ParlGov, read 5 October 2026

Which party won the most seats?

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 157 of 338 seats with 33.1% of the vote; 71.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.8 points on 2015.

  • Conservative Party of Canada 121 +22 seats 34.3% +2.5 points
  • Liberal Party of Canada 157 −27 seats 33.1% −6.3 points
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 24 −20 seats 16.0% −3.7 points
  • Bloc Québécois 32 +22 seats 7.6% +3.0 points
  • Green Party of Canada 3 +2 seats 6.5% +3.1 points
  • People's Party of Canada 0 1.6%
  • Seats won
  • Change on the previous election at the right
  • Share of the vote
  • Share at the previous election
  • Change in points at the right

Changes are against the Canada 2015 federal election, party by party.

170 of 338 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 33.1%

    Share of the vote won by Liberal Party of Canada

    Liberal Party of Canada won 157 of 338 seats. A majority needs 170.

  2. +22 seats

    Seats gained by Conservative Party of Canada

    The largest gain in seats compared with 2015. Liberal Party of Canada lost 27 seats.

  3. 71.3%

    Voter turnout

    Up 2.8 points on 2015.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Conservative Party of Canada121+2234.3+2.56,239,227
Liberal Party of Canada157−2733.1−6.36,018,728
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party24−2016.0−3.72,903,722
Bloc Québécois32+227.6+3.01,387,030
Green Party of Canada3+26.5+3.11,189,607
People's Party of Canada01.6294,092
Independents1+10.4+0.272,546

± is the change against the Canada 2015 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Conservative Party of Canada 6,239,227
  • Liberal Party of Canada 6,018,728
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,903,722
  • Bloc Québécois 1,387,030
  • Green Party of Canada 1,189,607
  • People's Party of Canada 294,092
  • Independents 72,546

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes.

How many people voted?

71.3% of the 27,126,166 registered voters cast a ballot (19,345,308 ballots), up 2.8 points on 2015. 18,170,880 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1988 in our data.

How do the votes compare with the seats?

  • Liberal Party of Canada33.1% of votes46.4% of seats
  • Conservative Party of Canada34.3% of votes35.8% of seats
  • Bloc Québécois7.6% of votes9.5% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party16.0% of votes7.1% of seats
  • Green Party of Canada6.5% of votes0.9% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 2.8 by seats; Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 1.2 points of the vote.

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