301 seats in the House of Commons 151 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
64.1%[1] (2.9pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Jean Chrétien
Stockwell Day
Gilles Duceppe
Party
Liberal
Alliance
Bloc Québécois
Leader since
June 23, 1990
June 24, 2000
March 15, 1997
Leader's seat
Saint-Maurice
Okanagan—Coquihalla
Laurier— Sainte-Marie
Last election
155 seats, 38.46%
60 seats, 19.35%
44 seats, 10.67%
Seats before
161
58
44
Seats won
172
66
38
Seat change
11
8
6
Popular vote
5,252,031
3,276,929
1,377,727
Percentage
40.85%
25.49%
10.72%[i]
Swing
2.39pp
6.13pp
0.04pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Alexa McDonough
Joe Clark
Party
New Democratic
Progressive Conservative
Leader since
October 14, 1995
November 14, 1998
Leader's seat
Halifax
Calgary Centre
Last election
21 seats, 11.05%
20 seats, 18.84%
Seats before
19
15
Seats won
13
12
Seat change
6
3
Popular vote
1,093,868
1,566,998
Percentage
8.51%
12.19%
Swing
2.54pp
6.65pp
Results by electoral district, shaded by winners' vote share
Results by province and territory
Prime Minister before election
Jean Chrétien
Liberal
Prime Minister after election
Jean Chrétien
Liberal
Map of Canada, showing the results of the 2000 election by riding.
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 37th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberal Party won a third majority government.
Since the previous election of 1997, small-c conservatives had begun attempts to merge the Reform Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as part of the United Alternative agenda. During that time, Jean Charest stepped down as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and former Prime Minister Joe Clark took over the party and opposed any union with the Reform Party. In the spring of 2000, the Reform Party became the Canadian Alliance, a political party dedicated to uniting conservatives together into one party. Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning lost in a leadership race to Stockwell Day who became leader of the new Canadian Alliance party.
The federal government called an early election after being in office for just over three years (with a maximum allowed mandate of five years). The governing Liberal Party of Canada won a third consecutive majority government, winning more seats than in 1997. The Canadian Alliance only made minor gains, and an Eastern breakthrough did not happen. The Bloc Québécois, New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservatives all suffered slight losses.
This was the last election as of 2024 in which an incumbent government successfully defended its parliamentary majority. It was also the last election in which a single party won more than 40% of the popular vote, although the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper in 2011 (39.62%) and the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau in 2015 (39.47%) would both come close. This was the only election contested by the Canadian Alliance and the last by the Progressive Conservatives (as they both merged into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003). This was also the first election in which Nunavut was its own separate territory (before, it was part of the Northwest Territories).
^Pomfret, R. "Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums". Elections Canada. Elections Canada. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
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