Provincial and Territorial
The following table summarizes the results of the most recent provincial and territorial elections. A link to complete lists for each province and territory is below. The winning party is indicated in bold and by the coloured bar at the left of the table. The table does not show the current state of the parties within the legislative bodies; refer to the articles on the individual houses for the current state.
In some cases the provincial parties are not associated with the federal party of the same name. Thus, names of provincial parties are sometimes misleading when associating a provincial party with a national party, although the respective ideologies are usually fairly similar.
None of the current provincial Progressive Conservative Parties are formally linked with the federal Conservatives - the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada resulted in the formal disbanding of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The new federal party has never asked the provincial PC parties to re-establish any formal links, although informal links do exist in most provinces and the membership lists in many provinces are quite similar. Some provincial parties (such as Alberta) formally broke off links with the federal party prior to the merger. Both the Saskatchewan and Yukon parties are also closely tied to the Conservative party.
In British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec the provincial Liberals are wholly emancipated from the federal Liberals. The other provincial Liberal parties are autonomous entities but retain formal links with the federal party.
On the other hand, all provincial wings of the New Democratic Party are fully integrated with the federal NDP.
As stated above: this table does not show the current state of provincial legislatures, but rather the party standings as a result of the most recent election.
| Province or territory | Date of most recent election |
Total seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | Liberal | New Democrat | Other | ||||
| Quebec | September 4, 2012 | 502 | 54 (Parti Québécois) 19 (Coalition Avenir Québec) 2 (Québec Solidaire) |
125 | |||
| Alberta | April 23, 2012 | 61 | 52 | 4 | 17 (Wildrose Party) | 87 | |
| Saskatchewan | November 7, 2011 | 9 | 49 (Saskatchewan Party) | 58 | |||
| Yukon | October 11, 2011 | 2 | 6 | 11 (Yukon Party) | 19 | ||
| Newfoundland & Labrador | October 11, 2011 | 37 | 6 | 5 | 48 | ||
| Ontario | October 6, 2011 | 37 | 532 | 17 | 107 | ||
| Manitoba | October 4, 2011 | 19 | 1 | 37 | 57 | ||
| Northwest Territories | October 3, 2011 | 191 | 19 | ||||
| Prince Edward Island | October 3, 2011 | 5 | 22 | 27 | |||
| New Brunswick | September 27, 2010 | 42 | 13 | 55 | |||
| Nova Scotia | June 9, 2009 | 10 | 11 | 31 | 52 | ||
| British Columbia | May 12, 2009 | 492 | 35 | 1 (Independent) | 85 | ||
| Nunavut | October 27, 2008 | 191 | 19 | ||||
For lists of general elections in each province and territory, see the infobox at the bottom of the article.
1Note: Nunavut does not have political parties, and political parties in the Northwest Territories were disbanded in 1905. MLAs in both territories are elected as independents and the legislatures function under a consensus government model.
2Note: Provincial Liberal parties that are not affiliated with the federal Liberal Party of Canada.
Read more about this topic: Elections In Canada
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