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40th Canadian general election
Election date:	Writs issued:
On or before October 19, 2009	TBD
Campaign period:	Seats contested:
TBD	308
Incumbent:
Conservative minority
Result:
TBD
Registered parties:
Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party Bloc Québécois Canadian Action Party Christian Heritage Party of Canada Communist Party of Canada Conservative Party of Canada First Peoples National Party Green Party of Canada Liberal Party of Canada Libertarian Party of Canada Marijuana Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada neorhino.ca New Democratic Party People's Political Power of Canada Progressive Canadian Party Western Block Party
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Barring war, insurrection, or an earlier dissolution the 40th Canadian federal election will be held October 19, 2009, in accordance with the provisions of the Canada Elections Act, which were amended in the 1st Session of the 39th Parliament. In the past, the Prime Minister could select an election date of his or her choosing, usually at the four-year mark or when he or she believed that his or her party had the best chance of winning the election. However, in 2007 the Parliament of Canada passed a law fixing federal election dates every four years and scheduling the next election date as October 19, 2009. As the current parliament is led by a minority government, it is possible that an election will occur sooner, as the opposition parties can still bring down the government on a vote of confidence.

More than 65% of all eligible voters cast ballots in the 39th Canadian general election. The Conservative Party received the most votes, with 36% of the vote and 124 seats (now 126). The Liberal Party won 103 seats (now 96), taking 30% of the vote. The Bloc Québécois lost three seats, lowering its total to 51 seats (now 49), with 10.5% of the vote. The New Democratic Party retained its seats held at the dissolution of Parliament, and won 11 more, making its total 29 seats (now 30), with 17.5% of the vote. The Green Party received 4.5% of the vote, a minimal increase from the previous election, but did not win any seats. Independents and other parties constituted 1% of the total vote.

Since the election David Emerson and Wajid Khan, who were both elected as Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs), have joined the Conservative Party, while Garth Turner, elected as a Conservative, was expelled from the Conservative caucus. Turner initially sat as an independent, but then joined the Liberal caucus on February 6, 2007. Joe Comuzzi, also elected as a Liberal, was expelled from the Liberal Caucus for supporting the Budget in 2007. [1] Joe Comuzzi has since joined the Conservative Party of Canada. There were also by-elections in Repentigny and London North Centre after the death of Benoît Sauvageau and resignation of Joe Fontana. Both by-elections reelected a member from the incumbent party.

Canadians' next chance to go to the polls will be Canada's 40^th federal election. Harper's government could formally last until late 2009, although an election may be triggered in 2008 if the government falls on a motion of confidence.

The parliament preceding this election is led by the smallest minority ever in the Canadian House of Commons — a government with just 40.6% of the seats — and led by the Conservative Party of Canada. Although the average length of a minority parliament in Canada is 1 year, 5 months and 22 days, minorities led by the former Progressive Conservative Party tended to be much shorter: the longest previous Conservative minority was just 6 months and 19 days. [2] The 39th Parliament became Canada's longest serving Conservative minority on October 24, 2006.

On May 30, 2006, the Conservatives tabled Bill C-16 which would amend the Canada Elections Act which would provide for fixed elections. The bill states that there will be an election in 2009, and it would be the first to have a fixed election date, the third Monday in October (October 19, 2009). However, the House may still fall before then, and there may be an election still in 2008. The bill has finished the legislative process in the Commons and is currently (as of December 2006) in the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Senate.

It was rumoured by political pundits that Harper would like to have an election in early 2007 in hopes of attaining a majority of the Commons seats. However, it was also speculated that he would hold off calling an election until after Quebec held its provincial election, so as to measure the strength of federalist feelings in that province.

On February 15, 2007, the Globe and Mail reported that the Conservatives were preparing for an election expected to be called shortly after the 2007 budget, due on March 19. Part of the reason for the timing of the election was given as strengthening Conservative poll numbers coupled with the desire to take advantage of the perception that Harper has "better leadership qualities than Liberal counterpart Stéphane Dion". [3]

On March 17, 2007, an internal Conservative Party memo was leaked to the Canadian Press, telling members that they "need to be ready to campaign within the next week." The memo asked members to donate $75 to $150 to help to fund the early stages of the election campaign.

• February 6, 2006 - Harper Cabinet is sworn in. Liberal David Emerson crosses the floor to join the new government thus changing the standings in the Canadian House of Commons to Conservatives 125, Liberals 102, BQ 51, NDP 29, Independent 1. This has the potential to be very relevant in terms of numbers, as it allows a Conservative-NDP voting block to command a majority.
• February 19, 2006 - Bloc Québécois House Leader Michel Gauthier announces that his party will vote to keep the government in office for a "good while". [4] So long as the Bloc votes with the government on confidence measures, they will pass.
• April 3, 2006 - Peter Milliken is re-elected Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons becoming only the third Opposition MP to serve as Speaker. The Speaker only votes in the event of a tie and then must vote to support the "status quo". The election of a Liberal Speaker effectively gives the Conservatives an additional cushion by denying the Liberals a vote. Numerically, the Conservatives can now pass legislation and win motions of confidence with the support of any one Opposition party, i.e., the Conservatives and the NDP combined have enough seats to win a vote, as they do combined with BQ or the Liberals (assuming all MPs are present and vote without any defections).
• August 28, 2006 - Bloc Member of Parliament Benoît Sauvageau (Repentigny) dies in a car accident.
• September 20, 2006 - Liberal MP for London North Centre Joe Fontana resigns to run for mayor of London, Ontario.
• October 18, 2006 - Conservative MP for Halton Garth Turner is suspended from the Conservative Party. He sits as an Independent.
• November 21, 2006 - Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, a Senator, announces he will run for the House of Commons in this election in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
• November 27, 2006 - By-elections in London North Centre and Repentigny result in holds for the Liberals and Bloc, respectively. The Green Party comes second in London North Centre.
• December 2, 2006 - Stéphane Dion wins the Liberal Party leadership at the Liberal Party leadership convention.
• December 12, 2006 - The Bloc threatens to introduce a non-confidence motion over Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan in the new year
• December 14, 2006 - Liberal leader Stephane Dion says that the Liberals are "preparing" for a spring election.
• December 19, 2006 - Liberal leader Stéphane Dion appoints Scott Brison and Bob Rae as co-chairs of his party's election platform committee and Gerard Kennedy as advisor for election readiness and renewal.
• January 5, 2007 - Liberal MP Wajid Khan crosses the floor to join the Conservatives to retain his position as special advisor to the Prime Minister for the Middle East and Afghanistan.[5]
• January 11, 2007 - Liberal MP Jean Lapierre announces that he will resign his seat of Outremont before the end of the month, which he does on January 28, 2007.
• February 6, 2007 - Independent MP Garth Turner joins the Liberal Party.
• February 14, 2007 - The House of Commons passes third reading on a Private Member's Bill by Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez committing the Government to meet Canada's Kyoto Protocol commitments by 2012.
• February 21, 2007 - Bloc Québécois MP Yvan Loubier resigns his seat of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot to run in the Quebec Provincial Election.
• March 21, 2007 - Liberal MP Joe Comuzzi is expelled from the caucus for supporting the Conservative Budget.
• April 12, 2007 - Bloc Québécois MP Louise Thibault leaves the Bloc Quebecois to sit as an Independent, citing dissatisfaction with Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe as her reason for leaving.
• April 12, 2007 - Liberal and Green Party leaders Stephane Dion and Elizabeth May agree not to run candidates against each other in the upcoming election. The Liberals will not run a candidate in Central Nova and the Greens will not run a candidate in Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.
• May 3, 2007 - Bill C-16 receives Royal Assent. This bill states that the next election must be held on October 19, 2009, unless the government is defeated by a motion of no confidence.
• June 5, 2007 - Bill Casey, the longest-serving member within the Conservative caucus, is expelled for voting against the budget. He now sits as an independent member.
• June 26, 2007 - Independent MP Joe Comuzzi joins the Conservative Party.[6]
• July 2, 2007 - Liberal MP Bill Graham resigns his seat of Toronto Centre
• July 12, 2007 - First-term Liberal MP Gary Merasty announces he will resign his seat in August to move to the private sector. Liberal MP Jim Peterson also resigns his seat, as he previously announced in June.
• July 27, 2007 - Liberal MP Stephen Owen resigns his seat to accept an academic position.
• July 28, 2007 - By-elections are called to be held in the vacant seats of Outremont and Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot on September 17.
• July 29, 2007 - Bloc Québécois MP Michel Gauthier resigns his seat.
• August 11, 2007 - By-election is called to be held in the vacant seat of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean on September 17.
• August 16, 2007 - New political party Neorhino.ca is officially recognized by Elections Canada.
• September 17, 2007 - By-elections held in three ridings. The Conservatives, Bloc, and NDP each win one. The NDP's Thomas Mulcair becomes only the second MP for that party ever elected in Quebec.
• October 28, 2007 - Liberal MP Blair Wilson resigns from the national caucus. He will sit as an independent, styling himself a "non-caucus Liberal".
• December 2, 2007 - Liberal leader Dion announces he will be seeking a spring 2008 election, possibly before the budget.^[1]

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Summary of the 40th Canadian House of Commons election results

Party		Party leader	Candidates[23]	Seats				Popular vote
				2006	Current	40th	Change	#	%	Change
	Conservative Party of Canada	Stephen Harper	241 (as of December 22, 2007)	124	125
	Liberal Party of Canada	Stéphane Dion	149 (as of December 14, 2007)	103	95
	Bloc Québécois	Gilles Duceppe	39 (as of December 22, 2007)	51	49
	New Democratic Party	Jack Layton	67 (as of December 22, 2007)	29	30
	Green Party of Canada	Elizabeth May	77 (as of December 22, 2007)
	Christian Heritage Party of Canada	Ron Gray	14 (as of December 14, 2007)
	Progressive Canadian Party	Sinclair M. Stevens
	Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)	Sandra L. Smith
	Marijuana Party of Canada	Blair Longley
	Canadian Action Party	Connie Fogal	31 (as of December 20, 2007)
	Communist Party of Canada	Miguel Figueroa
	Libertarian Party of Canada	Jean-Serge Brisson
	First Peoples National Party of Canada	Barbara Wardlaw
	Western Block Party	Doug Christie
	Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party	Liz White
	People's Political Power	Roger Poisson
	Neorhino.ca	Richelle Cloutier
	Work Less Party	Conrad Schmidt
	Newfoundland and Labrador First Party	Thomas V. Hickey
	Independents and no affiliation			1	5
	Vacant				4
Total				308	308
Source: Elections Canada

The following is a list of ridings which were narrowly lost by the indicated party. For instance, under the Liberal column are the 30 seats in which they came closest to winning but did not. Listed is the name of the riding, followed by the party which was victorious (in parentheses) and the margin, in terms of percentage of the vote, by which the party lost.

These ridings are likely to be targeted by the specified party because the party lost them by a very slim margin in the 2006 election.

Up to 15 are shown, with a maximum margin of victory of 15%.

* Indicates incumbent not running again. To clarify further; this is a list of federal election winners with their party in parentheses, and their margin as a percentage of the vote over the party whose list the seat is on (not the same as the margin of victory if the party potentially "targeting" the seat in that list did not finish second in the previous election).

Conservative	Liberal
Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK (Lib) 0.3%* Brant, ON (Lib) 0.9% West Nova, NS (Lib) 1.1% Vancouver Island North, BC (NDP) 1.1% Oakville, ON (Lib) 1.3% West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC (Lib) 1.5% London West, ON (Lib) 2.2% Madawaska—Restigouche, NB (Lib) 2.4% Newton—North Delta, BC (Lib) 3.6% Saint Boniface, MB (Lib) 3.6% Saint John, NB (Lib) 3.6% Mississauga South, ON (Lib) 4.1% Richmond, BC (Lib) 4.1% Random—Burin—St. George's, NL (Lib) 4.7% Kenora, ON (Lib) 5.5%	Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON (Con) <0.1% Winnipeg South, MB (Con) 0.3% Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON (Con) 0.4% Tobique—Mactaquac, NB (Con) 0.9% St. Catharines, ON (Con) 1.1% Ahuntsic, QC (BQ) 1.7% Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC (Con) 1.9% London—Fanshawe, ON (NDP) 1.9% Ottawa—Orléans, ON (Con) 2.0% Simcoe North, ON (Con) 2.0% Brossard—La Prairie, QC (BQ) 2.2% Papineau, QC (BQ) 2.2% Burnaby—Douglas, BC (NDP) 2.6% Barrie, ON (Con) 2.7% Kitchener—Conestoga, ON (Con) 2.7%
Bloc Québécois	New Democratic
Louis-Hébert, QC (Con) 0.4% Beauport—Limoilou, QC (Con) 1.6% Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC (Con) 2.7% Hull—Aylmer, QC (Lib) 3.3% Honoré-Mercier, QC (Lib) 3.8% Pontiac, QC (Con) 5.0% Laval—Les Îles, QC (Lib) 6.1% Outremont, QC (Lib) 6.3% Bourassa, QC (Lib) 11.4% Jonquière—Alma, QC (Con) 12.8% Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC (Ind) 13.9%	Thunder Bay—Superior North, ON (Lib) 1.0% Newton—North Delta, BC (Lib) 1.6% Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON (Lib) 1.7% Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON (Lib) 3.7% Nickel Belt, ON (Lib) 4.6%* Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC (Lib) 4.6% Welland, ON (Lib) 4.8% Oshawa, ON (Con) 5.2% Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission, BC (Con) 5.2% Beaches—East York, ON (Lib) 5.4% Kenora, ON (Lib) 5.7% Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, SK (Con) 6.5% Central Nova, NS (Con) 7.8% South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS (Con) 8.3% Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC (Con) 8.3%

• The Green Party of Canada did not come within 15% of winning any riding in the 2006 election, but since came 9.0% short of winning London North Centre, ON (Lib) in a by-election.

1. Tony Clement, Health and Federal Economic Initiaitve for Northern Ontario: 0.1% over Lib in Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON
2. Lawrence Cannon, Transport, Infrastructure and Communities: 5.0% over BQ in Pontiac, QC
3. Jim Flaherty, Finance: 5.7% over Lib in Whitby—Oshawa, ON
4. Rob Nicholson, Justice: 5.9% over Lib in Niagara Falls, ON
5. Carol Skelton, Revenue: 6.5% over NDP in Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, SK
6. Peter MacKay, Defence and Atlantic Opportunities: 7.8% over NDP in Central Nova, NS
7. John Baird, Environment: 9.0% over Lib in Ottawa West—Nepean, ON

The dates listed are normally the date the survey was concluded. Most news and political affairs sources use the convention of using the last date that the poll was conducted in order to establish the inclusion/exclusion of current events.

Polling Firm	Last Date of Polling	Link	Conservative	Liberal	New Democratic	Bloc Québécois	Green
Harris-Decima	December 17, 2007	HTML	30	32	15	-	12
Angus Reid Strategies	December 14, 2007	HTML	33	28	17	10	10
Strategic Counsel	December 9, 2007	PDF	32	29	16	10	13
Ipsos-Reid	December 6, 2007	HTML	35	29	16	10	9
Harris-Decima	December 2, 2007	HTML	36	28	17	-	11
Ipsos-Reid	November 22, 2007	HTML	39	29	15	8	8
Harris-Decima	November 19, 2007	PDF	36	28	17	8	9
Strategic Counsel	November 13, 2007	PDF	34	31	16	11	8
Harris-Decima	November 12, 2007	HTML	33	29	17	8	12
Strategic Counsel	November 11, 2007	PDF	32	32	12	11	13
SES Research	November 08, 2007	PDF	35	34	17	9	6
Ipsos-Reid	November 08, 2007	HTML	42	28	15	8	7
Ipsos-Reid	November 01, 2007	HTML	39	28	13	12	7
Harris-Decima	October 29, 2007	HTML	33	29	17	9	10
Ipsos-Reid	October 25, 2007	HTML	39	27	17	9	8
Unimarketing	October 18, 2007	HTML	36	25	19	10	9
Ipsos-Reid	October 18, 2007	HTML	40	27	14	9	8
Angus Reid Strategies	October 17, 2007	HTML	34	29	17	9	9
Environics	October 14, 2007	HTML	33	29	19	8	11
Strategic Counsel	October 14, 2007	HTML	34	29	15	10	12
Ipsos-Reid	October 13, 2007	HTML	40	28	16	8	7
Harris-Decima	October 9, 2007	HTML	35	28	17	8	10
Harris-Decima	October 3, 2007	HTML	33	31	16	7	10
Harris-Decima	September 18, 2007	HTML	32	29	17	5	14
Angus Reid Strategies	August 23, 2007	HTML	33	29	19	9	9
SES Research	August 14, 2007	PDF	36	33	13	10	8
Strategic Counsel	August 12, 2007	PDF	33	33	17	10	8
Ipsos-Reid	July 27, 2007	HTML	34	32	17	8	8
Angus Reid Strategies	July 18, 2007	PDF	33	28	19	9	8
Strategic Counsel	July 15, 2007	HTML	31	31	17	10	10
Environics	June 30, 2007	HTML	37	28	17	7	11
Angus Reid Strategies	June 18, 2007	PDF	34	27	19	10	8
Decima	June 11, 2007	HTML	29	32	18	9	9
Ipsos Reid	May 31, 2007	HTML	34	31	16	10	9
Leger Marketing	May 27, 2007	PDF	37	30	14	8	9
Ipsos Reid	May 24, 2007	HTML	37	31	16	7	9
Angus Reid Strategies	May 23, 2007	HTML	35	28	18	9	9
Decima	May 20, 2007	HTML	33	31	17	8	10
Strategic Counsel	May 17, 2007	HTML	34	31	16	10	9
Ipsos Reid	May 17, 2007	HTML	36	32	14	9	7
Ipsos Reid	May 10, 2007	HTML	31	32	17	9	9
SES Research	May 3, 2007	HTML	32	33	17	9	10
Ipsos Reid	May 3, 2007	HTML	35	34	14	9	7
Decima	April 29, 2007	HTML	30	31	15	9	13
Ipsos Reid	April 26, 2007	HTML	38	31	14	8	8
Strategic Counsel	April 24, 2007	PDF	36	30	13	9	12
Decima Research	April 21, 2007	HTML	30	29	18	8	11
Ipsos Reid	April 19, 2007	HTML	39	29	16	9	7
Decima Research	April 15, 2007	HTML	34	31	15	7	11
Ipsos Reid	April 12, 2007	HTML	38	32	14	8	8
SES Research	April 5, 2007	PDF	36	33	16	10	6
Decima Research	April 5, 2007	HTML	39	30	13	8	8
Environics	April 3, 2007	HTML	36	28	16	8	12
Ipsos Reid	March 28, 2007	HTML	36	31	15	8	9
Angus Reid Strategies	March 28, 2007	pdf	39	22	17	10	11
Decima Research	March 25, 2007	HTML	35	31	13	8	10
Léger Marketing	March 25, 2007	HTML	41	27	14	9	6
Ipsos-Reid	March 22, 2007	HTML	40	29	14	9	7
Strategic Counsel	March 21, 2007	HTML	39	31	13	8	9
Ipsos-Reid	March 15, 2007	HTML	36	34	12	9	8
Strategic Counsel	March 13, 2007	HTML	36	31	15	9	10
Angus Reid Strategies	March 07, 2007	HTML	38	28	15	10	8
Decima Research	March 04, 2007	HTML	35	29	15	7	11
Ipsos-Reid	March 03, 2007	HTML	36	32	15	8	8
Angus Reid Strategies	February 27, 2007	HTML	40	26	15	10	8
Decima Research	February 26, 2007	HTML	36	27	13	8	13
Ipsos-Reid	February 24, 2007	HTML	36	34	13	9	8
Decima Research	February 18, 2007	HTML	32	30	15	9	11
Strategic Counsel	February 18, 2007	HTML	34	29	14	11	12
Decima Research	February 12, 2007	HTML	32	33	15	9	8
SES Research	February 8, 2007	PDF	33	33	17	10	7
Léger Marketing	February 4, 2007	PDF	38	31	14	8	7
Decima Research	January 22, 2007	HTML	32	33	13	13	9
Léger Marketing	January 21, 2007	HTML	35	32	13	8	9
Ipsos-Reid	January 18, 2007	HTML	33	37	13	-	-
Decima Research	January 15, 2007	HTML	32	33	13	10	9
Strategic Counsel	January 14, 2007	HTML	31	35	15	11	8
Environics	December 30, 2006	HTML	34	32	14	8	11
Decima Research	December 30, 2006	HTML	34	31	15	10	8
Ipsos-Reid	December 14, 2006	HTML	34	36	13	10	5
Decima Research	December 13, 2006	HTML	32	35	12	11	7
EKOS	December 9, 2006	HTML	33	40	10	9	8
Ipsos-Reid	December 7, 2006	HTML	32	38	13	11	5
Decima Research	December 3, 2006	PDF	31	35	12	10	11
Strategic Counsel	December 3, 2006	HTML	31	37	14	11	7
Léger Marketing	November 26, 2006	HTML	34	32	15	10	6
Decima Research	November 13, 2006	HTML	31	33	15	10	10
SES Research	November 09, 2006	PDF	34	32	16	13	5
Environics	November 06, 2006	HTML	33	32	19	9	5
Decima Research	November 05, 2006	HTML	31	28	18	10	9
Ipsos-Reid	November 02, 2006	HTML	37	29	19	9	5
Decima Research	October 16, 2006	HTML	32	30	15	11	10
Strategic Counsel	October 15, 2006	HTML	32	32	17	11	9
EKOS	October 12, 2006	HTML	36	31.7	16.2	9.9	6.2
Environics	October 12, 2006		37	28	18	9	7
Strategic Counsel	September 17, 2006	HTML	35	26	19	12	8
EKOS	September 14, 2006	PDF	38.7	28.8	17.0	8.4	7.0
Decima Research	September 4, 2006		34	30	14	11	10
Decima Research	August 28, 2006	PDF	33	28	19	10	8
Ipsos-Reid	August 24, 2006		38	29	17	10	5
SES Research	August 23, 2006	PDF	36	30	18	11	5
Decima Research	August 13, 2006	PDF	36	29	15	10	7
Decima Research	July 31, 2006	PDF	32	31	16	11	8
Strategic Counsel	July 30, 2006	HTML	38	29	15	11	8
Ipsos-Reid	July 27, 2006	HTML	39	27	17	10	7
Decima Research Without Greens Surveyed With Greens Surveyed	July 23, 2006 July 16, 2006 July 16, 2006	HTML PDF	36 36 36	30 30 29	17 19 16	- 11 10	- - 8
Strategic Counsel	July 16, 2006	HTML	37	26	18	11	8
Environics	June 23, 2006	HTML	39	25	21	9	4
Decima Research	June 18, 2006	HTML	38	28	19	10	-
Strategic Counsel	June 8, 2006	PDF	36	27	19	9	9
Decima Research	May 28, 2006	PDF	38	29	21	8	-
Ipsos-Reid	May 18, 2006	HTML	43	25	15	9	5
SES Research	May 9, 2006	PDF	38	28	19	9	6
Strategic Counsel	May 3, 2006	HTML	35	31	16	10	9
Decima Research	April 23, 2006	HTML	41	26	19	10	-
Strategic Counsel	April 09, 2006	HTML	39	29	14	11	5
Environics	March 31, 2006	HTML	41	22	21	10	5
Decima Research	March 26, 2006	HTML	39	28	19	11	-
Ipsos-Reid	March 23, 2006	HTML	38	28	19	9	5
Decima Research	March 13, 2006	HTML	37	28	19	10	-
Decima Research	February 27, 2006	HTML	35	28	21	10	-
Ipsos-Reid	February 23, 2006	HTML	39	27	20	8	5
Strategic Counsel	February 21, 2006	HTML	39	28	19	8	-
Decima Research	February 13, 2006	PDF	35	25	24	8	-
SES Research	February 9, 2006	PDF	33	34	18	9	7
Election 2006	January 23, 2006	HTML	36.3	30.2	17.5	10.5	4.5

Aside from conducting the usual opinion surveys on general party preferences, polling firms also survey public opinion on who would make the best Prime Minister:

Polling Firm	Last Date of Polling	Link	Stephen Harper	Stephane Dion	Jack Layton	Gilles Duceppe	Elizabeth May
SES Research	November 08, 2007	PDF	37	13	17	6	5
Unimarketing	October 18, 2007	HTML	40	10	16	1	4
Angus Reid Strategies	October 17, 2007	PDF	30	10	-	-	-
Environics	October 17, 2007	HTML	37	12	19	5	4
SES Research	August 4, 2007	PDF	31	23	18	6	5
Angus Reid Strategies	July 16, 2007	HTML	33	14	-	-	-
Angus Reid Strategies	June 18, 2007	PDF	33	17	-	-	-
SES Research	April 5, 2007	HTML	42	17	16	7	4
Ipsos Reid	February 19, 2007	HTML	46	25	29	-	-

Sometimes the information is further broken down, as in this Strategic Counsel poll conducted from February 15 - February 18, 2007:

Leader	Clearest Vision for Canada	Most Decisive Leader	Most Charismatic
Stephen Harper	50	53	35
Stéphane Dion	22	19	20
Jack Layton	20	20	36
Gilles Duceppe	8	8	10

40th Canadian federal election (candidates)

By party:

• Green Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• Liberal Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• New Democratic Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• Bloc Québécois candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• Christian Heritage Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• Independent candidates, 40th Canadian federal election
• Conservative Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election

• Joe Comuzzi, Thunder Bay—Superior North, Ontario ^[2]
• Norman Doyle, St. John's East, Newfoundland and Labrador ^[3]
• Ken Epp, Edmonton—Sherwood Park, Alberta ^[4]
• Brian Fitzpatrick, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ^[5]
• Art Hanger, Calgary Northeast, Alberta ^[6]
• Carol Skelton, Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, Saskatchewan ^[7]
• Myron Thompson, Wild Rose, Alberta ^[8]
• John Williams, Edmonton—St. Albert, Alberta ^[9]

• Raymond Bonin, Nickel Belt, Ontario ^[10]
• Brenda Chamberlain, Guelph, Ontario ^[11]
• John Godfrey, Don Valley West, Ontario ^[12]
• Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Nunavut, Nunavut ^[13]
• Paul Martin, LaSalle—Émard, Quebec ^[14]
• Bill Matthews, Random—Burin—St. George's, Newfoundland and Labrador ^[15]
• Joe McGuire, Egmont, Prince Edward Island ^[16]
• Lucienne Robillard, Westmount—Ville-Marie, Quebec ^[17]
• Andy Scott, Fredericton, New Brunswick ^[18]
• Paul Steckle, Huron—Bruce, Ontario ^[19]
• Belinda Stronach, Newmarket—Aurora, Ontario ^[20]
• Tom Wappel, Scarborough Southwest, Ontario ^[21]

• Bill Blaikie, Elmwood—Transcona, Manitoba ^[22]

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