1997 Canadian Election Results

One of the most interesting sites available on the 1997 elections is the interactive map resource, created by Statistics Canada and Natural Resources Canada.  The clickable map allows you to zoom in on regions right down to the constituency level and filter results by party and several demographic variables.

When you examine the results of the 1997 elections, bear in mind that the party standings at the time of dissolution in October 2000 were rather different.

For data on the riding by riding results, connect to either the Elections Canada site or CANOE's 1997 Election site. 

Voter turnout for the elections held between 1984 and 1997, both nationally and for each province, is available at Elections Canada.

You can see the disparity between the share of votes and the share of seats won by the major parties in a chart that compares the 1988, 1993 and 1997 elections.

The results of the 1997 Canada Election Study are available either in raw frequencies or you can download the full data set in SPSS .sav format, as well as the Technical Manual in pdf format, to analyze on your own computer.

The Canadian Election Study team have written a number of articles on voting behaviour in the 1997 federal election which are now available in full text on-line, including:

• Campaign Dynamics in the 1997 Canadian Election
• The Impact of Issues and the Economy in the 1997 Canadian Election
• Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec 
• Measuring Strategic Voting in Multiparty Plurality Elections