Canadian federal election, 2011

  • Green: 1
  • NDP: 103
  • Lib: 34
  • BQ: 4
  • Kon: 166

The 41st Canadian General Election (english 41st Canadian General Election, French 41e élection fédérale canadienne ) took place on May 2, 2011. Be elected 308 members of the Canadian House of Commons (English House of Commons, French Chambre des Communes ). These elections have become necessary because the minority Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has party lost a no-confidence vote on March 25, 2011. The Conservatives, who had ruled with a minority since 2006, won for the first time since its foundation, the absolute majority of seats.

Background

The lower house elections in 2008 had brought only minor changes and resulted in the continuation of the minority government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper Conservative Party. The subsequent legislative session was marked by two controversial adjournments of Parliament ( in the parliamentary process of the country the Governor-General assigns usually an adjournment to when the conditions laid down in the throne speech targets are considered to be met, and the exposed Parliament operation is then resumed with the next King's Speech ).

At the request of Harper's Governor General Michaëlle Jean granted on 4 December 2008 an adjournment until 26 January 2009. The government justified this step with the need to take more time for the development of a new economic program. The opposition, however, saw nothing more than an attempt to forestall a no-confidence vote on 27 November requested. The second controversial adjournment occurred on December 30, 2009, when Harper a further suspension of the operation Parliament asked the Governor General to 3 March 2010, and this in turn founded with the elaboration of an economic program. Opposition representatives called this measure as a contempt of democratic institutions and accused the government, they would simply avoid uncomfortable questions about the use of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. This led in various Canadian cities to demonstrations against the " closure of democracy."

The Election Commission Elections Canada complained in February 2011 to the Conservative Party, as they have by law limited campaign expenditures exceeded by over a million dollars at the general election in 2006 and the additional expenditure was veiled. After a parliamentary commission of inquiry had come to the conclusion that Harper's government denied the Parliament in various cases, important information or had concealed, the opposition parties refused to assent to the budget. The Liberal party has requested in response to a no-confidence vote, which was successful with 156 to 145 votes on March 25, 2011.

Opinion polls

Throughout the legislative session since the general election in 2008 there were in the opinion polls relatively small fluctuations. Also in the first three weeks of the campaign, no major changes seemed to emerge. The situation changed significantly, as mid-April 2011, the New Democratic Party caught up with the Liberals in the polls and how they came up with a share of 25 %.

In the following two weeks, the rising support for the social-democratic NDP was particularly obvious in the province of Quebec. After they had been there in 2008, only four of the strongest party, she sat now clearly at the top and rounded on the date selector strongest party, the separatist Bloc Québécois. In the other provinces, the NDP has seen rising levels of agreement, made ​​nationwide liberals behind and reduced the gap with the Conservatives clearly.

Summary

The reasons given by Prime Minister Stephen Harper Conservatives have been confirmed as the ruling party and can now govern with a slim majority of the seats, instead of the current as a minority government. The best result in its history achieved the New Democratic Party, thanks mainly to an outstanding performance in the province of Quebec, where the party had ever won before since its inception only twice a seat. Thus, the NDP chairman Jack Layton will lead the opposition. The Liberal Party achieved the worst result in its history. The separatist Bloc Québécois, who had always won the majority of seats in Quebec in the six preceding general election had, suffered a crushing defeat, winning only four seats. Michael Ignatieff and Gilles Duceppe, the chairman of the Liberal and the Bloc Québécois, both documents in their constituency and gave their resignation. For the first time the Greens won a seat in the House of Commons, through their chairman Elizabeth May

Results

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Overall result

Result by provinces and territories

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