In the

2015 Canadian federal election The 2015 Canadian federal election was held on October 19, 2015, to elect the 338 members of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons of the 42nd Canadian Parliament, 42nd Parliament of Canada. In accordance with the Fixed election date ...

, there were 78 members of Parliament elected to the

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from the province of

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, making up 23.1% of all members of the House.

Background

2012 electoral redistribution

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. The House of Commons increased from 308 seats to 338 seats, with Quebec's number of seats increasing from 75 to 78 seats. This made the average population per constituency in Quebec 104,671 (according to the

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Background

2012 electoral redistribution

Timeline

Opinion polling

Predictions

Results

Summary

Comparison with national results

Notes

References