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

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Jean Chrétien's

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won a third

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. Since the previous election of 1997,

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s had begun attempts to merge the

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and the

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as part of the

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agenda. During that time,

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stepped down as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and former

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took over the party and opposed any union with the Reform Party. In the spring of 2000, the Reform Party became the

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, a political party dedicated to uniting conservatives together into one party. Former Reform Party leader

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lost in a leadership race to

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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

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breakthrough did not happen. The

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and the Progressive Conservatives all suffered slight losses. This was the last election as of 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 vote, although the Conservative Party under

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in 2011 (39.62%) and the

under

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(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

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in 2003). This was also the first election in which

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was its own separate territory (before, it was part of the

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Campaign

On October 22, 2000,

and Liberal Party leader Jean Chrétien advised

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to dissolve parliament and call an

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scheduled for November 27, 2000. This move has been viewed by commentators as an attempt to stem a possible rise of support to the newly formed Canadian Alliance, to stop the leadership ambitions of

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, and to capitalize on the nostalgia created by the recent death of

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. At the time of the election, the Canadian economy was strong and there were few immediate negative issues, as the opposition parties were not prepared for the campaign. The major issue in the election was

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which had risen in public opinion polls to be the most important issue for Canadians.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 122. The public was largely uninterested in the election, with commentators stating that voters expected a repeat of previous regionally divided elections that offered little chance of a change of government. The Liberals' final television advertisement, according to

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's ''

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'', "emphasized the contrast between

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while warning voters about

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Joe Clark's claim that he would form a coalition with the Bloc Québécois in a minority government. The ad told Canadians not to take risks with other parties but to choose a strong, proven team".

Political parties

Liberal Party

The

entered the election with a record of ending the budgetary deficit, making major reductions in federal spending (such as by cuts to the civil service, privatization of crown corporations), creating new environmental regulations, and increasing spending beginning on social programs beginning in 1998 after the budget deficit had ended and a surplus had been achieved.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 16. The Liberal Party came under attack by opposition parties for irregularities in the Department of Human Resources' Transition Job Fund program, but Chrétien managed to capably defend the government's actions. Chrétien was directly attacked by the opposition parties for alleged corrupt involvement from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in providing funding to local projects in Chrétien's riding of Saint-Maurice. The Liberal Party focused its attacks on the Canadian Alliance, accusing it of being a dangerous right-wing movement that was dangerous to national unity. The Liberal Party's most tense problem was the ongoing leadership feud within the Liberal Party between Chrétien and Finance Minister

who wanted to replace Chrétien as Liberal leader and Prime Minister.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 115.

Strategy

Due to the regionalized nature of previous elections, the Liberal Party designed its election strategy along regional lines, aiming to take every seat in Ontario, winning seats in Quebec from the Bloc Québécois, and winning seats in Atlantic Canada, while attempting to minimize losses in

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to the Canadian Alliance. Chrétien only spent parts of nine days campaigning in the West, including only two stops in the province of

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, both in the city of

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while visiting the province of

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only three times, and only in the cities of Victoria and

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. The Liberal Party focused its effort in regaining support in Atlantic Canada, where the party had suffered serious losses in the 1997 election to the New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party due to the Liberal government's imposition of quotas on Atlantic Canadian cod fisheries and the government's cuts to unemployment insurance benefits.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 20. Chrétien gained support during the campaign from former New Brunswick Premier

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and former Chrétien government minister and then the current Premier of

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resigned as Premier and ran as a Liberal Party candidate in his province. During the campaign, Chrétien apologized to Atlantic Canadians for the negative impact of employment insurance reforms which had caused hardship in Atlantic Canada. In Quebec, the Liberal Party benefited from the collapse of support for the Progressive Conservative Party, after the PCs' popular Québécois leader

had resigned in 1998 and was replaced by former Prime Minister

who was unpopular in Quebec which resulted in three PC members from Quebec defecting to join the Liberal Party prior to the election. In Quebec the recently passed

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by the federal government was controversial in that it demanded a clear and concise question on a new referendum on sovereignty.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 22. Chrétien defended the Clarity Act and attacked sovereigntist Quebec premier and former Bloc Québécois leader

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, challenging him to hold another referendum on sovereignty under the new laws, as Chrétien expected that the sovereigntists would lose such a referendum. The Liberal Party promised a number of government projects in Quebec to woo Quebec voters to the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party appealed to Canada's most populous province of Ontario by acting to restore funding that its government had cut in the 1990s in order to cut the deficit of the 1990s.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 24. The Liberal government established a health accord with all premiers in September 2000 that involved major projected increases to public health care spending. Overall, the Liberals increased their number of seats in the House of Commons from 155 seats to 172 seats. They also won the popular vote in their former stronghold of Quebec for the first time since 1980, though they narrowly fell short of winning the most seats in the province, winning 36 seats to the Bloc's 38.

Canadian Alliance

The

(the common short form name of Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance) was a new political party in the election, having been created only months earlier as the successor to the

, a party founded as a

protest party which sought to become a national party in the 1990s.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 59. Reform Party leader

was deeply disappointed with the Reform Party's failure to spread eastward in the 1997 election, as the Reform Party lost its only seat in Ontario in that election.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 60. Reform identified vote-splitting with its rival conservative movement, the Progressive Conservative Party as the cause for the Liberals' 1997 election victory, and Manning proposed the solution of a merger of the Reform and Progressive Conservative parties. This agenda by the Reform Party to unite the two parties was called the

which began in 1998, and ultimately resulted in the Alliance. The new party subsequently elected

as leader over Manning. The Alliance had hoped to use the 2000 election to eclipse the PC party in Ontario and Eastern Canada. The Alliance dedicated its campaign to demonstrating that the party was a national party and not as western-based as its predecessor had been perceived as. Day's more media friendly and "easy going" persona was expected to appeal to more

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voters than Manning's reputation as a policy wonk, and after the United Alternative project had integrated the successful Provincial PCs in the party, the

was hoping for major improvements. The Alliance campaigned on: cutting taxes by reducing the Federal taxation rate to two lower tax brackets, an end to the federal gun registration program, and importance of family values. The campaign was dogged by accusations: introducing a

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—the party would allow private health care to exist alongside the public medicare system; and for threatening the protection of gay rights and abortion rights. The latter accusations tended to focus on the party's residual direct democracy provisions in their platform. The accusations against his party platform, along with Day's relative inexperience compared to decades-experienced fixtures like Clark and Chrétien, led to the party fading from contention. While they did not force the Liberals into minority government or finally eclipse the PC party, they did retain their official opposition status, and increased their numbers in the House of Commons by six seats, from 60 to 66. The Alliance ended up winning only two Ontario ridings. On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen-Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.

Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois suffered from the unpopular decision of its provincial counterpart, the ruling

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government's agenda to merge the communities surrounding Quebec City into one community. Many Québécois were angered by this decision and voted in protest against the Bloc or chose to not vote at all to demonstrate their frustration. Bloc leader

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received negative media attention after he decided to personally appoint candidate Noël Tremblay to run in the riding of

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in spite of the Bloc's riding association's selection of Sylvain Gaudreault to run in the riding. The Bloc's 177 page platform was criticized as being far too large and few copies were distributed and few internet users accessed the platform because of is length and was rarely discussed during the campaign. Instead, the Bloc produced large numbers of copies of small booklets that outlined the policies within the large platform.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 145. The Bloc campaigned to try to win over previous supporters of the PC Party. This campaign strategy failed, as the Bloc lost seats to the Liberal Party due to the collapse of Quebec support for the Progressive Conservative Party, whose voters shifted to the Liberal Party. The Bloc won in 38 ridings, six ridings fewer than in the 1997 election.

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party suffered badly in the campaign due to the drop in support for the provincial New Democratic parties over the preceding decade and amid a scandal in 2000 facing

's NDP Premier

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who was forced to resign as Premier.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 114. Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier

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resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party. In Nova Scotia, the provincial NDP lost seats in its 1999 election while the NDP government of the Yukon had been recently defeated. As Canada's major

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political party, it relied on support from the labour movement, but recent strains between the NDP and the

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union and the

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had weakened the party's base of support. The party had received little media attention during the election and 2000 as a whole, due to the media's focus on Canada's newest political party, the

, the political comeback of former Prime Minister

to the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, and the leadership feud within the Liberal Party between Jean Chrétien and

. The NDP did not expect to do well in the election and aimed to win thirty-two "must-win" seats. The NDP's platform and campaign focused on protecting medicare while attacking the Liberal Party for its tax cuts to wealthy Canadians and corporations. The NDP's focus on attacking the Liberals failed to recognize the surging support for the Canadian Alliance in the province of Saskatchewan, which the NDP had hoped to gain seats in. The NDP failed to galvanize support, as it remained low in support in polling results throughout most of the election campaign.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 127–128. NDP leader

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performed badly in the French-language debate due to her not being fluent in French.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 128. In the English-language debate, McDonough attacked Alliance leader Stockwell Day for favouring two-tier health care and attacked Liberal leader Jean Chrétien for giving out tax cuts to the wealthy rather than funding Canada's public health care system.

Progressive Conservative Party

The Progressive Conservative Party aimed to regain its former place in Canadian politics under the leadership of former Prime Minister

. The PC Party had a very disappointing election, falling from 20 to 12 seats, and being almost exclusively confined to the

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and Newfoundland. It won the 12 seats needed for

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in the House of Commons, however. Failure to win 12 seats might have marginalized the party in the House of Commons, and likely led to a more rapid decline. Governing parties have the option of extending party status to caucuses of less than twelve members at their discretion. Had the Progressive Conservatives been just a few seats short of the requisite twelve ''and'' the NDP had stayed at least twelve seats, the Liberal government would likely have exercised this option as they had done for

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Results

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, style="text-align:right;" , 73 , style="text-align:right;" , * , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , * , style="text-align:right;" , 66,258 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.52% , style="text-align:right;" , * , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Independent and No Affiliation , style="text-align:right;" , 86 , style="text-align:right;" , 1 , style="text-align:right;" , 4 , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , -100% , style="text-align:right;" , 55,036 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.43% , style="text-align:right;" , -0.04pp , style="text-align:left;" , Paul T. Hellyer , style="text-align:right;" , 70 , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , 27,103 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.21% , style="text-align:right;" , +0.08pp , style="text-align:left;" , Neil Paterson , style="text-align:right;" , 69 , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , 16,577 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.13% , style="text-align:right;" , -0.16pp , style="text-align:left;" , Sandra L. Smith , style="text-align:right;" , 84 , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , 12,068 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.09% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Miguel Figueroa Miguel Figueroa (born July 29, 1952) is a Canadian political activist who was the leader of the Communist Party of Canada from 1992 to 2015. He is known for the landmark Figueroa case, which redefined the role of small parties and Canadian Parl ...

, style="text-align:right;" , 52 , style="text-align:right;" , * , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , * , style="text-align:right;" , 8,776 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.07% , style="text-align:right;" , * , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" , Vacant , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:center;" colspan="5" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="3" , Total , style="text-align:right;" , 1,808 , style="text-align:right;" , 301 , style="text-align:right;" , 301 , style="text-align:right;" , 301 , style="text-align:right;" , ±0.0% , style="text-align:right;" , 12,857,773 , style="text-align:right;" , 100% , style="text-align:right;" , - , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Sources: http://www.elections.c
History of Federal Ridings since 1867
, - Notes: "% change" refers to change from previous election * - Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election ¹ - percentage change from

in previous election.

Vote and seat summaries

Results by province

Source
Elections Canada

Gains and losses

The following seats changed allegiance from the 1997 election: ;Liberal to Alliance * Lanark—Carleton *

Provencher Provencher is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1871. It is a largely rural district in the province's southeast corner. Its largest community is the city of St ...

* Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke *

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a ...

;Liberal to NDP * Windsor—St. Clair ;Alliance to PC *

Calgary Centre Calgary Centre (french: Calgary-Centre; formerly known as Calgary South Centre) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. The riding consists of many young ad ...

;Bloc to Liberal *

Beauharnois—Salaberry Beauharnois—Salaberry is a former federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 2015. Geography In 2003, the riding was re-defined to consist of the regional county municipa ...

Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok (formerly known as Gaspé—Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004. ...

Frontenac—Mégantic Frontenac—Mégantic was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004. It was created in 1996 from the Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead riding. It was abolished in 2 ...

* Laval East *

Louis-Hébert Louis-Hébert could refer to: * Louis-Hébert (provincial electoral district) * Louis-Hébert (federal electoral district) {{Disambiguation ...

* Portneuf *

Quebec East Quebec East (also known as Québec-Est and Québec East) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004. While its boundaries changed over the decades, it was essent ...

;NDP to Liberal * Beauséjour—Petitcodiac * Bras d'Or—Cape Breton * Churchill River *

Halifax West Halifax West (french: Halifax-Ouest) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. Its population in 2021 was 111,944. Demographics ''From the 2016 census'' Eth ...

Sydney—Victoria Sydney—Victoria is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. It was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Ca ...

Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

;NDP to Alliance * Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys * Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre *

Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar (formerly known as Saskatoon—Rosetown) was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015. Geography The district consisted of the s ...

;PC to Liberal *

Burin—St. George's Burin—St. George's was a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 2004. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Burin—Burgeo, Humber—St. Geo ...

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and co ...

Compton—Stanstead Compton—Stanstead is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. It was created in 1996 from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe ridings. Geograp ...

Madawaska—Restigouche Madawaska—Restigouche is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. Its population in 2001 was 65,877. Political geography The district includes all of the ...

* Markham * Shefford * Tobique—Mactaquac *

West Nova West Nova (french: Nova-Ouest) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. South Western Nova and South West Nova were ridings that covered roughly the same geo ...

;PC to Bloc *

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...

;Independent to Liberal *

York South—Weston York South—Weston (french: York-Sud—Weston) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. In 2015, York South—Weston elected Canada's first MP of Somali de ...

Notes

*Number of parties: 11 **First appearance:

Marijuana Party of Canada The Marijuana Party (french: Parti Marijuana) is a Canadian federal political party, whose agenda focuses on issues related to cannabis in Canada. Apart from this one issue, the party has no other official policies, meaning party candidates ar ...

**Reappearance after hiatus:

Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada (french: Parti communiste du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it does not currently have any parliamentary representation, the party's can ...

**Final appearance:

Natural Law Party of Canada The Natural Law Party of Canada (NLPC) was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practised Transcendental Meditation. Description and history The ...

**First-and-only appearance:

10 closest ridings

Champlain Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fr ...

, QC:

Marcel Gagnon Marcel Gagnon (born April 19, 1936) is a former Canadian politician. A businessman, he served as a legislator for both the National Assembly of Quebec and the House of Commons. Provincial politics Gagnon ran as a Parti Québécois candidat ...

(BQ) def.

Julie Boulet Julie Boulet (born June 16, 1959 in Saint-Tite, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. Boulet is the current Member of National Assembly for the Quebec riding of Laviolette in the Mauricie region. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she was Minis ...

(Lib) by 15 votes
2.

Laval Centre Laval Centre (french: Laval-Centre; formerly known as Laval-des-Rapides) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 2004. It was created as "Laval-des-Rapides" riding i ...

, QC: Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral (BQ) def. Pierre Lafleur (Lib) by 42 votes
3. Leeds—Grenville, ON:

Joe Jordan Joseph Jordan (born 15 December 1951) is a Scottish football player, coach and manager. He is currently a first-team coach at AFC Bournemouth. A former striker, he played for Leeds United, Manchester United, and Milan, among others at club ...

(Lib) def. Gord Brown (CA) by 55 votes
4.

, SK:

Carol Skelton Carol Skelton, (born December 12, 1945 in Biggar, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. She is a member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee which oversees the operation of Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She formerly served ...

(CA) def. Dennis Gruending (NDP) by 68 votes
5.

, YT:

Larry Bagnell Lawrence Bagnell (born December 19, 1949) is a former Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Yukon from 2000 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2021. He served as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada ...

(Lib) def. Louise Hardy (NDP) by 70 votes
6. Tobique—Mactaquac, NB: Andy Savoy (Lib) def. Gilles Bernier (PC) by 150 votes
7. Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK: Larry Spencer (CA) def. John Solomon (NDP) by 161 votes
8.

Regina—Qu'Appelle Regina–Qu'Appelle (formerly Qu'Appelle) is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968 and since 1988. Geography The district includes the northeastern ...

, SK:

Lorne Nystrom Lorne Edmund Nystrom, (born April 26, 1946) is a Canadian politician and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2004. He is a member of the New Democratic Party. Nystrom has been a prominent fig ...

(NDP) def. Don Leier (CA) by 164 votes
9. Palliser, SK:

Dick Proctor Dick Proctor (born February 12, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian political activist, former New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament, and a former journalist. Career Politics Proctor has been active with the NDP in a number ...

(NDP) def.

Don Findlay Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name *Don, Benin, a town in Benin *Don, Dang, a vill ...

(CA) by 209 votes
10. Matapédia—Matane, QC: Jean-Yves Roy (BQ) def. Marc Bélanger (Lib) by 276 votes
11. Cardigan, PE:

Lawrence MacAulay Lawrence A. MacAulay (born September 9, 1946) is a Canadian politician, who has represented the riding of Cardigan, Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons since 1988. On June 11, 1997, he joined the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean Chré ...

(Lib) def.

Kevin MacAdam Kevin Joseph MacAdam (born February 28, 1967) is a Canadian political advisor and former politician . Born in West Saint Peters, the son of Stephen MacAdam, he was educated at the University of Prince Edward Island, and worked as a researcher ...

(PC) by 276 votes

References

Bibliography

External links

Elections Canada: 2000 electionPredicting the 2000 Canadian Election
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian Federal Election, 2000