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Federal Election Results - Page 2

© David Newman

The Prairies are a different story. The Manitoba seats were devided between the Liberals (5) the Canadian Alliance (4) and the New Democratic Party, the remaining seat going to Tory Rick Borotsik of Brandon-Souris. Saskatchewan was dominated by the Canadian Alliance and the New Democrats lost seats. the Canadian Alliance won ten seats, two which were gained from the NDP the rest were won in the previous election. The Liberals won two seats reelecting Ralph Goodale but defeating the NDP in Churchill River by Liberal Candidate Rick Laliberte. The NDP managed to hold on to two seats.

Alberta is Wild Alliance Country and its a surprise that three seats escaped them. 23 of the 26 ridings went to Alliance, the same ridings they had won in the 1997 election. These ridings saw reknown Alliance candidates such asPreston Manning, Jason Kenney and Deborah Gray. The Liberals managed to keep their two Edmonton ridings held by David Kilgour and Anne McLellan. The Tories won the other riding, of course, this one being Joe Clark's Calgary Centre gain of the formerly Canadian Alliance seat.

British Columbia is more diverse but still mainly dominated by the Alliance who won 27 seats. Most of them were seats they already held but managed to gain Kamloops Thompson and Highland Valleys from the NDP and Port Moody-Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam and Richmond from the Liberals. Of Course, Stockwell Day won his riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla. Vancouver seams to be the exception of CA rule where 4 ridings went to the Liberals and one to the NDP. The Liberals were also reelected in Victoria, the NDP also geting the riding of Burnaby-Douglas.

The Three teritories were a sweep by the Liberals who were re-elected in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut whereas Larry Bagnell of the Yukon gained a seat from the Liberals.

The Liberals led the national popular vote with an improved 40.8% of the vote. Following is the Canadian Alliance with 25.5%, up from the two previous elections (as the Reform Party). The Tories got 12.2%, which shows decrease in support for the Tories compared to previous elections. The NDP follow a similar path with 8.5%, which is better than what they got in 1993 yet down from 1997. The Bloc Quebecois also lost support although to a lesser extent with 10.7% of the national vote, which is pretty good considering they only run in Quebec.

Of all the minor parties the Green Party of Canada leads with 0.81%. They are followed by the Marijuana Party with 0.52%. The Canadian Action Party received 0.21% and the Natural Law Party of Canada received 0.13% of the vote. The Communist vote was split between the Marxist Lenninist Party of Canada (0.10%) and the Communist Party of Canada (0.07%). The remaining 0.44% were votes to Independant candidates or to individuals with no affiliation.

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