Saturday March 22, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
There are 343 electoral areas across Canada for the 45th federal election. The election date is April 28, 2025.
That’s up from 338 seats in the House of Commons due to population growth and some boundary revisions.
At dissolution, the seat count in the House of Commons (with 338 seats) will be Liberal 152, Conservative 120, Bloc 33, NDP 24, Green Party 2, Independent 3, and four vacant seats.
Currently the largest number of MPs represent electoral areas in Ontario (121), Quebec (78) and BC (42).
Number of candidates (at March 22):
- The well-financed Conservative and Liberal parties are expected to have candidates in all 343 ridings, one for each riding across the country. Both major party leaders are running in Ottawa-area ridings (Carney in Nepean and Poilievre in Carleton).
- The NDP is still working to run candidates in all ridings, currently showing NDP new candidates in 107 ridings in addition to the 24 NDP incumbents( (not all of whom are seeking re-election including Charlie Angus and Rachel Blaney).
- The Greens so far has 82 candidates, aiming to focus on where they are most likely to win.
- The Bloc Quebecois will only run candidates in Quebec, being a Quebec nationalist party.
BC note:
- The Liberals currently have 14 seats in BC (with currently one Liberal cabinet minister from BC).
- The Conservatives also have 14 seats in BC.
- Of the 42 MPs elected in BC in the last election (in 2021), 12 are NDP. That includes NDP Party Leader Jagmeet Singh holding Burnaby South. The NDP has held six of the seven ridings on Vancouver Island since 2011.
- The Green Party has one MP (their party co-leader Elizabeth May) in BC; the other MP is in Ontario.
- One BC seat is currently vacant.
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