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The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections. The main opposition party, the newly amalgamated Conservative Party of Canada, improved its position but with a showing below its expectations. Further information: Results of the Canadian federal election, 2004, Timeline of the 2004 Canadian federal election, and Canadian federal election, 2004 map gallery (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ...
The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada), the head of the Government of Canada, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB (born August 28, 1938, in Windsor, Ontario) is the Prime Minister of Canada. ...
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
This is a seat by seat list of candidates in the 2004 Canadian election. ...
The following is a timeline of the Canadian federal election, 2004. ...
This is a gallery of maps relating to the 2004 Canadian federal election. ...
On May 23, 2004, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Martin, ordered the dissolution of the House of Commons. Following a 36-day campaign, voters elected 308 Members of the House of Commons. May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Governor General of Canada (French: Gouverneur général or Gouverneure générale) is the representative of the Canadian monarch. ...
The Right Honourable Adrienne Louise Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. ...
 The House of Commons after the 2004 election All three major national parties had changed their leaders since the 2000 elections. Although the election was initially widely expected to be a relatively easy romp for Martin to a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government, during the campaign many began instead to predict a far more closely-fought election. Polls started to indicate the possibility of a minority government for the Liberals, or even a minority Conservative government, fuelling speculation of coalitions with the other parties. In the end, the Liberals fared better than the final opinion polls had led them to fear, but not well enough to win a majority. File links The following pages link to this file: Canadian federal election, 2004 ...
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The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ...
A minority government, or a minority cabinet, is a cabinet of a parliamentary system which does not represent a majority in the parliament — or in bicameral parliaments, in that chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial. ...
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...
On election day, polling times were arranged to allow results from most provinces to be announced more or less simultaneously, with the exception of Atlantic Canada, whose results were known before the close of polling in other provinces. Atlantic Canada consists of the four Canadian provinces on the Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. ...
National results
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A party must hold 155 seats to form a majority government. The Liberals came short of this number, winning 135. Until extremely close ridings were decided on the west coast, it appeared as though the Liberals' seat total, if combined with that of the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP), would be sufficient to hold a majority in the House of Commons. In the end, the Conservatives won Vancouver Island North, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, and New Westminster-Coquitlam, after trailing in all three ridings, as sub-totals were announced through the evening. Download high resolution version (774x608, 48 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Canadian federal election, 2004 Categories: GFDL images ...
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This is a seat by seat list of candidates in the 2004 Canadian election. ...
The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism. ...
As a result, the combined seat count of the Liberals and the NDP was 154, while the other 154 seats belonged to the Conservatives, Bloquistes, and one independent Chuck Cadman (previously a Conservative). Rather than forming a coalition with the NDP, the Liberal party has been leading a minority government, obtaining majorities for its legislation on an ad hoc basis. Nevertheless, as the showdown on Bill C-48, a matter of confidence, loomed in the spring of 2005, the Liberals and NDP, who wanted to continue the Parliament, found themselves matched against the Conservatives and the Bloc, who were registering no confidence. The bill just barely passed with support from the Liberals, the NDP, and the independent members of the Commons. Chuck Cadman Charles Chuck Cadman, (February 21, 1948 - July 9, 2005) was a Canadian politician. ...
The 2005 Canadian federal budget was the budget of the Government of Canada for the 2005-2006 fiscal year. ...
Voter turnout nationwide was 60.9%, the lowest ever in Canadian history [1], with 13,683,570 out of 22,466,621 registered voters casting their ballots. The voter turnout fell by more than 3% from the 2000 federal election which had 64.1% turnout [2].
| Summary of the 2004 Canadian House of Commons election results | | Party | Party leader | # of
candidates | Seats | Popular vote | | 2000 | Dissolution | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | | | Liberal Party of Canada | Paul Martin | 308 | 172 | 168 | 135 | -21.5% | 4,982,220 | 36.7% | -4.1% | | | Conservative Party of Canada¹ | Stephen Harper | 308 | 78 | 72 | 99 | +37.5% | 4,019,498 | 29.6% | -8.1% | | | Bloc Québécois | Gilles Duceppe | 75 | 38 | 33 | 54 | +42.1% | 1,680,109 | 12.4% | +1.7% | | | New Democratic Party | Jack Layton | 308 | 13 | 14 | 19 | +46.2% | 2,127,403 | 15.7% | +7.2% | | | Independent / No Affiliation | 64 | - | 10 | 1 | | 64,864 | 0.5% | +0.1% | | | Green Party of Canada | Jim Harris | 308 | - | - | - | - | 582,247 | 4.3% | +3.5% | | | Christian Heritage Party of Canada | Ron Gray | 62 | * | - | - | * | 40,335 | 0.3% | * | | | Marijuana Party of Canada | Marc-Boris St-Maurice | 71 | - | - | - | - | 33,276 | 0.2% | -0.3% | | | Progressive Canadian Party | Ernie Schreiber | 16 | * | - | - | * | 10,872 | 0.1% | * | | | Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) | Sandra L. Smith | 76 | - | - | - | - | 8,696 | 0.1% | 0.0% | | | Canadian Action Party | Connie Fogal | 44 | - | - | - | - | 8,807 | 0.1% | -0.1% | | | Communist Party of Canada | Miguel Figueroa | 35 | - | - | - | - | 4,426 | 0.0% | -0.1% | | | Libertarian Party of Canada | Jean-Serge Brisson | 8 | * | - | - | * | 1,949 | 0.0% | * | | | Vacant | 4 | | | Total | 1683 | 301 | 301 | 308 | +2.3 | 13,564,702 | 100% | | Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 | Notes: The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ...
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ...
In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election. ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ...
The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB (born August 28, 1938, in Windsor, Ontario) is the Prime Minister of Canada. ...
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
The Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP, MA (born April 20, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Leader of the Official Opposition. ...
The Bloc Québécois is a left-wing federal political party in Canada that is devoted to the promotion of sovereignty for Quebec. ...
Gilles Duceppe Gilles Duceppe, M.P. (b. ...
The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism. ...
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The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ...
Jim Harris 2006 election campaign photo. ...
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ...
Ronald O. Gray is the current leader of the minor federal level Christian Heritage Party of Canada. ...
The Marijuana Party is a Canadian federal political party that aims to end prohibition of cannabis. ...
Marc-Boris St-Maurice is the leader of the Marijuana Party of Canada. ...
The Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) is a minor federal political party in Canada. ...
Ernie Schreiber is the name of two notable people: Ernie Schreiber is the chair of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors and was editor of the Lancaster New Era. ...
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) is a Canadian federal political party whose platform is the promotion of communism. ...
Sandra L. Smith is the leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (aka the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada) and the widow of the partys founder and long-time leader, Hardial Bains. ...
The Canadian Action Party (CAP) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. ...
Connie Fogal Constance (Connie) Fogal (born 1940) is the leader of the Canadian Action Party. ...
The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. ...
Miguel Figueroa (born 1953) has been the leader of the Communist Party of Canada since 1992. ...
The Libertarian Party of Canada is a minor political party in Canada that adheres to the philosophy of libertarianism. ...
Jean-Serge Brisson was born in 1954 in Embrun, Ontario. ...
"% 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.
x - less than 0.05% of the popular vote
1 Conservative Party results are compared to the combined totals of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party in the 2000 election. The Canadian Alliance (in full, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance) was a Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. ...
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ...
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 Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 36 6 Area - Total - % water Ranked 5th 944,735 km² 2. ...
Motto: Fortis et Liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 28 6 Area - Total - % water Ranked 6th 661,848 km² 2. ...
Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (Latin: From many peoples, strength) Official languages English Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant-Governor Lynda M. Haverstock Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 14 6 Area - Total - % water Ranked 7th 651,036 km² 9. ...
Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) Official languages English Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 14 6 Area - Total - % water Ranked 8th 647,797 km² 14. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 106 24 Area - Total - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395...
The first European explorer to reach Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...
Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope was restored) Official languages English, French Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 10 10 Area - Total - % water Ranked 11th 72 908 km² 2. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant-Governor Myra Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 11 10 Area - Total - % water Ranked 12th 55,283 km² 3. ...
Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (The small under the protection of the great) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Lieutenant-Governor J. Léonce Bernard Premier Pat Binns (PC) Area 5,660 km² (13th) • Land 5,660 km² • Water 0 km² (0%) Population (2004) â...
This is about the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
Motto: Nunavut Sannginivut (Inuktitut: Nunavut our strength or Our land our strength) Official languages Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English, French Capital Iqaluit Largest city Iqaluit Commissioner Ann Meekitjuk Hanson Premier Paul Okalik (independent) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 1 Nancy Karetak-Lindell 1 Willie Adams Area - Total - % water Ranked 1st 2...
Motto: None Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Yellowknife Largest city Yellowknife Commissioner Tony Whitford Premier Joe Handley (Consensus government - no party affiliations) Area 1,346,106 km² (3rd) Land 1,183,085 km² Water 163,021 km² (12. ...
Motto: none Official languages English Capital Whitehorse Largest city Whitehorse Commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber Premier Dennis Fentie (Yukon Party) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 1 1 Area - Total - % water Ranked 9th 482,443 km² 1. ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ...
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
The Bloc Québécois is a left-wing federal political party in Canada that is devoted to the promotion of sovereignty for Quebec. ...
The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism. ...
The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ...
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ...
The Marijuana Party is a Canadian federal political party that aims to end prohibition of cannabis. ...
The Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) is a minor federal political party in Canada. ...
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) is a Canadian federal political party whose platform is the promotion of communism. ...
The Canadian Action Party (CAP) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. ...
The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. ...
The Libertarian Party of Canada is a minor political party in Canada that adheres to the philosophy of libertarianism. ...
10 closest ridings - Western Arctic, NT: Ethel Blondin-Andrew (Lib) def. Dennis Bevington (NDP) by 53 votes
- Jeanne-Le Ber, QC: Liza Frulla (Lib) def. Thierry St-Cyr (BQ) by 72 votes
- Simcoe—Grey, ON: Helena Guergis (Cons) def. Paul Bonwick (Lib) by 100 votes
- New Westminster—Coquitlam, BC: Paul Forseth (Cons) def. Steve McClurg (NDP) by 113 votes
- Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK: Tom Lukiwski (Cons) def. Gary Anderson (Lib) by 122 votes
- Palliser, SK: Dave Batters (Cons) def. Dick Proctor (NDP) by 124 votes
- Edmonton—Beaumont, AB: David Kilgour (Lib) def. Tim Uppal (Cons) by 134 votes
- Cambridge, ON: Gary Goodyear (Cons) def. Janko Peric (Lib) by 224 votes
- Kildonan—St. Paul, MB: Joy Smith (Cons) def. Terry Duguid (Lib) by 278 votes
- Northumberland—Quinte West, ON: Paul Macklin (Lib) def. Doug Galt (Cons) by 313 votes
Western Arctic is a federal electoral district and senate division in Northwest Territories, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. ...
The Honourable Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew, PC, MP (born March 25, 1951, in Tulita, Northwest Territories) is a Canadian politician. ...
Dennis Bevington is a Canadian politician from the Northwest Territories. ...
Jeanne-Le Ber in relation to the other Montreal area ridings Jeanne-Le Ber is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. ...
The Honourable Liza Frulla, PC , MP (born March 30, 1949) is a Canadian politician. ...
Thierry St-Cyr is a engineer and Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec, Canada. ...
Simcoe—Grey is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada. ...
Helena Guergis (born February 19, 1969 in Barrie, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. ...
The Honourable Paul Bonwick, PC (born October 24, 1964) is a lobbyist and former politician in Canada. ...
New Westminster—Coquitlam is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988, and since 2004. ...
Paul Forseth (b. ...
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre is the name of a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada. ...
Tom Lukiwski (born October 5, 1951) is a Canadian politician. ...
Gary J. Anderson is a Canadian farmer and politician who has twice run for the Liberals in the riding of Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre. ...
This article refers to the electoral district in Saskatchewan, for the Alberta electoral district of the same name which existed from 1966-1976 please see Palliser (Alberta electoral district) Palliser is a federal Canadian electoral district in the province of Saskatchewan. ...
Dave Batters (born 1970, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. ...
Dick Proctor (born in Toronto, February 12, 1941) is a Canadian political activist and former New Democratic Party Member of Parliament as well as a former journalist. ...
Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada. ...
The Honourable David Kilgour, PC (born February 18, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. ...
Cambridge is the name of a federal electoral district and a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. ...
Gary Goodyear (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. ...
Janko Peric had a fairly unsucsesful carrer in politics. ...
Kildonan—St. ...
Joy Ann Smith (born February 20, 1947) is a Canadian politician. ...
Terry Duguid is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. ...
Northumberland—Quinte West is the name of a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada. ...
The Honourable Paul Harold Macklin, PC , MP (born May 22, 1944 in Northumberland County, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. ...
Doug Galt is a politician in Ontario, Canada. ...
Seat by seat results Further information: Canadian federal election, 2004 map gallery Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Throughout most of recent history, the Liberals have dominated in federal politics in Quebec, even when Quebec voters were simultaneously electing the Parti Québécois at the provincial level. ...
Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Throughout most of recent history, the Liberals have dominated in federal politics in Quebec, even when Quebec voters were simultaneously electing the Parti Québécois at the provincial level. ...
Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Throughout most of recent history, the Liberals have dominated in federal politics in Quebec, even when Quebec voters were simultaneously electing the Parti Québécois at the provincial level. ...
Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Throughout most of recent history, the Liberals have dominated in federal politics in Quebec, even when Quebec voters were simultaneously electing the Parti Québécois at the provincial level. ...
Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Throughout most of recent history, the Liberals have dominated in federal politics in Quebec, even when Quebec voters were simultaneously electing the Parti Québécois at the provincial level. ...
Ontario Ontario is predicted to be the battle ground of this election. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
Manitoba Manitoba is traditionally split between the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives. ...
This is a gallery of maps relating to the 2004 Canadian federal election. ...
Notes The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
The Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) is a minor federal political party in Canada. ...
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ...
The Libertarian Party of Canada is a minor political party in Canada that adheres to the philosophy of libertarianism. ...
Major parties - Main articles: List of political parties in Canada, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]], and [[{{{5}}}]]
This article lists political parties in Canada. ...
Liberal Party of Canada
 Until the sponsorship scandal, most pundits were predicting that new Prime Minister Paul Martin would lead the Liberal Party of Canada to a fourth majority government, possibly setting a record for number of seats won. New logo for Liberal Party of Canada This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
The sponsorship scandal is an ongoing scandal that has affected the government of Canada, and particularly the ruling Liberal Party of Canada for a number of years, but rose to especially great prominence in 2004. ...
The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada), the head of the Government of Canada, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB (born August 28, 1938, in Windsor, Ontario) is the Prime Minister of Canada. ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ...
In the Westminster System, a majority government is one in which the government enjoys an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or Parliament. ...
However, polls released immediately after the scandal broke showed Liberal support down as much as 10% nationwide, with greater declines in its heartland of Quebec and Ontario. Although there was some recovery in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, Liberal hopes of making unprecedented gains in the west faded. The unpopularity of some provincial Liberal parties may also have had an effect on federal Liberal fortunes. In Ontario, for instance, the provincial Liberal government introduced an unpopular budget the week of the expected election call, and their federal counterparts then fell into a statistical dead heat with the Conservatives in polls there. The Liberals were also harmed by high profile party infighting that have been plaguing the party since Martin's earlier ejection from Cabinet by now-former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. The first European explorer to reach Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 106 24 Area - Total - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395...
Atlantic Canada consists of the four Canadian provinces on the Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 106 24 Area - Total - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395...
The Ontario Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. ...
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
The period between Paul Martins assumption of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada on November 14, 2003, and the 2004 federal election being called on May 23, 2004, saw a lot of infighting within the party. ...
The campaign was criticized openly by Liberal candidates, one incumbent Liberal comparing it to the Keystone Kops. The Keystone Kops was a series of silent film comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. ...
Conservative Party of Canada In the final months of 2003, the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance were running a distant third and fourth, respectively, in public opinion polls. Logo of the Conservative Party of Canada This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ...
The Canadian Alliance (in full, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance) was a Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. ...
Many pundits predicted that the combination of the popular and fiscally conservative Martin, along with continued vote-splitting on the right, could have led to the almost total annihilation of the Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance. This fear prompted those two parties to form a united Conservative Party of Canada, which was approved by the members of the Canadian Alliance on December 5, 2003 and controversially by the delegates of the Progressive Conservatives on December 6, 2003. The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The new Conservative Party pulled well ahead of the NDP in the polls just before the election, although its support remained below the combined support that the Progressive Conservatives and the Alliance had as separate parties. On March 20, the Conservatives elected Stephen Harper as their new leader. March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ...
The Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP, MA (born April 20, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Leader of the Official Opposition. ...
The Conservatives gained more ground in polls after Harper became leader, and the poll results in the weeks before the election had them within one to two points of the Liberals, sometimes ahead, sometimes behind them. Party supporters hoped that the voters would react negatively to the Liberal attacks on what they called Harper's "hidden agenda," and that anger over the sponsorship scandal and other Liberal failures would translate to success at the polls. Although on the eve of the election the party was polling slightly ahead of the Liberals everywhere west of Quebec, it had dropped in support, polling behind or an par with Liberals everywhere except Alberta and British Columbia, where it held onto its traditional support. All together the new Conservatives fell from the combined Canadian Alliance-Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 of 37%, to only 29% of the vote, yet still gained 21 extra seats.
New Democratic Party
 Before the announcement of the union of the right-of-centre parties, some were predicting that the New Democratic Party would form the official opposition because the NDP was polling ahead of both right-of-centre parties. A new leader (Jack Layton) and clear social democratic policies helped revitalize the NDP. Polls suggested that the NDP had returned to the 18% to 20% level of support it enjoyed in the 1984 election and 1988 election. Layton suggested that the NDP would win more than the 43 seats won under former leader Ed Broadbent. Broadbent was returned to Parliament after many years of absence. 2004 orange-and-green version of New Democratic Party of Canadas bilingual logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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The NDP focused the campaign on winning ridings in Canada's urban centres, hoping especially to win seats in central Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Winnipeg. The party's platform was built to cater to these regions and much of Layton's time was spent in these areas. Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ...
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The campaign stumbled early when the Liberals attacked Layton for blaming the deaths of homeless people on Paul Martin. They accused the NDP of negative campaigning. The NDP benefited from the decline in Liberal support, but not to the same extent as the Conservatives. There was an increasing prospect that NDP voters would switch to the Liberals to block a Conservative government. This concern did not manifest itself in the polls, however, and the NDP remained at somewhat below 20 percent mark in the polls for most of the campaign.
Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (BQ) continued to slide in the polls in most of 2003 after the election of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party at the National Assembly of Quebec under Jean Charest, and during the long run-up to Paul Martin becoming leader of the federal Liberals. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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However, things progressively changed during 2003, partly because of the decline in popularity of the Liberal Party of Quebec government of Jean Charest, and partly because support for independence in Quebec rose again (49% in March). The tide took its sharp turn when, in February 2004, the sponsorship scandal (uncovered in considerable part by the Bloc) hit the Liberal federal government. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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These events led to a resurgence of the BQ, putting it ahead of the pack once again: according to an Ipsos-Reid poll carried out for The Globe and Mail and CTV between the 4th and the 8th of June, 50% of Quebecers intended to vote for the BQ against 24% for the Liberals. Ipsos-Reid is a research company founded in 1975 by Didier Truchot, a Paris-based communications specialist. ...
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Speculation was ongoing about the possibility of the Bloc forming alliances with other opposition parties or with an eventual minority government to promote its goals of social democracy and respect of the autonomy of provinces. Leader Gilles Duceppe stated that the Bloc, as before, would co-operate with other opposition parties or with the government when interests were found to be in common, but that the Bloc would not participate in a coalition government. Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...
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Campaign slogans These are the official slogans for the 2004 campaigns. The optional parts of the mottos (sometimes not used for efficiency) are put in brackets. | Liberal Party | Moving [Canada] Forward - Allons [or Aller] droit devant (avec l'Équipe Martin) | Choose your Canada | | Conservative Party | Demand Better - C'est assez! | | Bloc Québécois | Un parti propre au Québec | Parce qu'on est différent (pre-election) | | New Democratic Party | [New Energy.] A Positive Choice. - [Une force nouvelle.] Un choix Positif. | | Green Party | Someday is now - L'avenir c'est maintenant | | Marijuana Party | Let's roll! - Y faut que ça roule! | | Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada | Annexation No! Sovereignty Yes! - Annexation Non! Souveraineté Oui! | The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ...
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Issues Important issues in the election: - Sponsorship scandal: badly hurt the Liberals in the polls and the theme of widespread corruption was used by all opposition parties, especially the Bloc.
- Health care: all parties support Canada's government-administered health care system but acknowledge that improvements must be made to meet new demographic challenges and to reduce long wait times. Transfer payments to the provinces have been cut substantially to 16% by the federal Liberal government and it was difficult for Paul Martin to reconcile these cuts with his plan to improve the system.
- Fiscal imbalance: all major parties except the Liberals claimed that there was a monetary imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces and spoke of plans to reduce it, the Bloc Québécois probably being the strongest denouncer of the situation.
- Taxation: for the Conservatives, significantly lowering taxes, to stimulate the economy, was a central issue. The Conservatives also promised to end "corporate welfare" and replace it with tax cuts for all businesses. The Liberals, Communist Party and NDP opposed large tax cuts and argued that money should instead be spent to improve social programs.
- Child care: The Liberals and NDP promised national child care programs.
- Parliamentary reform: The Conservatives accused the Liberals of perpetuating "undemocratic practices" in Parliament, by limiting the powers of MPs. Martin called for some reform, but not to the satisfaction of the Conservatives. The Conservatives promised an elected Senate and standing committee and provincial review of judicial appointments. The NDP spoke of abolishing the Senate.
- Electoral reform: Conservatives promised fixed election dates. The NDP, Green Party, Communist Party and the CHP promoted the idea of proportional representation voting.
- Same-sex marriage: The Bloc Québécois and the NDP strongly favoured same sex marriage. The NDP considers it a human rights issue, and requires its MPs to either support legislation favouring same-sex marriage or abstain on such questions. The Bloc, on the other hand, treats it as a matter of conscience, allowing its members free votes on the issue. The Liberals sent the issue to be ruled upon by the Supreme Court, and the Liberal caucus was publicly divided on the issue. The majority of Conservative candidates opposed it; the Conservative party's official stance was for the issue to be resolved by a free vote in the Commons.
- National Missile Defence: the Bush administration in the U.S. wanted Canada to join the missile shield. The Conservatives strongly supported such a plan while the Bloc and the NDP opposed it. Although the Liberals reiterated past opposition to the weaponization of space, they did not have an expressed opinion on the shield.
- 2003 invasion of Iraq: the Conservatives supported the United States over Iraq, while the other parties generally opposed it.
- Gun registry: The Conservatives strongly opposed the gun registry while the other parties support it.
- Marijuana: The Liberals have introduced measures to decriminalize possession of small quantities of marijuana, a move generally supported by the other opposition parties. The Conservative Party opposes such legislation. The Bloc Québécois is more explicit in its support for decriminalization, while the NDP wishes to study the issue and consider going beyond mere decriminalization.
- Abortion: This was not a significant issue in this election. Abortion is legal in Canada after Parliament's failure to pass legislation to replace previous restrictions ruled illegal by the courts. Many Conservatives and a few Liberals oppose abortion. The Liberals tried to use it as a wedge issue after comments from pro-life Conservatives, but it didn't change the outcome.
- Ontario budget: The introduction by the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty of "Ontario Health Premiums" was very unpopular, despite Mr. McGuinty's claim that this new tax was necessary because of the budgetary deficit left by the previous Progressive Conservative government. The Conservatives and the NDP capitalized on this and other unpopular fiscal and tax-related policy to attack the Liberals at the federal level.
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