308 seats in the House of Commons 155 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
60.9% (3.2pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Paul Martin
Stephen Harper
Party
Liberal
Conservative
Leader since
November 14, 2003
March 20, 2004
Leader's seat
LaSalle—Émard
Calgary Southwest
Last election
172 seats, 40.85%
78 seats, 37.68%1
Seats before
168
72
Seats won
135
99
Seat change
33
27
Popular vote
4,982,220
4,019,498
Percentage
36.73%
29.63%
Swing
4.12pp
8.05pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Gilles Duceppe
Jack Layton
Party
Bloc Québécois
New Democratic
Leader since
March 15, 1997
January 24, 2003
Leader's seat
Laurier
Toronto—Danforth
Last election
38 seats, 10.72%
13 seats, 8.51%
Seats before
33
14
Seats won
54
19
Seat change
21
5
Popular vote
1,680,109
2,127,403
Percentage
12.39%[i]
15.68%
Swing
1.67pp
7.17pp
Results by electoral district, shaded by winners' vote share
Results by province and territory
The Canadian parliament after the 2004 election
Prime Minister before election
Paul Martin
Liberal
Prime Minister after election
Paul Martin
Liberal
The 2004 Canadian federal election was held on June 28, 2004, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 38th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority but was able to continue in office as a minority government after the election. This was the first election contested by the newly amalgamated Conservative Party of Canada, after it was formed by the two right-of-centre parties, the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance.
On May 23, 2004, the governor general, Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Martin, ordered the dissolution of the House of Commons, triggering an early election despite the Liberals being only three and a half years into their five-year mandate. Earlier, the election result was widely expected to be a fourth consecutive majority government for the Liberals, but early in 2004 Liberal popularity fell sharply due to the emerging details of the sponsorship scandal. Polls even started to indicate the possibility of a Conservative minority government. In the end, the Liberals won a minority government, though they were well short of a majority and lost nearly three dozen seats.
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 due to the British Columbia Supreme Court's decision in R v Bryan.
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