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The 338Canada project is a statistical model of electoral projections based on opinion polls, electoral history, and demographic data. This web site is a creation of Philippe J. Fournier, physics and astrophysics professor at Cégep de Saint-Laurent in Montreal.

Philippe J. Fournier is a political columnist for Politico and L'actualité magazine, as well as a regular political contributor for CTV Montreal, Noovo, and Radio-Canada. He also co-hosts a new political podcast The Numbers with Éric Grenier.

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338Canada Federal Projection


Latest update: November 26, 2023

Popular vote projection 41% ± 4% 26% ± 3% 19% ± 3%▲ 7% ± 1% 5% ± 1% 3% ± 2% 338Canada Popular vote projection | November 26, 2023
This projection is calculated using a weighted average of polls by the 338Canada model to estimate current party support. This is not a poll, but the result of an aggregation of polls and modelization of various data. Read more on 338Canada's methodology here.
338Canada seat projection | 170 seats for a majority 208 [172-228] 73▲ [53-105] 30▼ [25-38] 25 [13-38] 2 [1-3] 0 338Canada seat projection | November 26, 2023
The seat projections are a forecast of the most likely results if a general election were held today. The brackets indicate the current ranges from worst to best possible outcomes. The distributions follow Gaussian-like curves, so the extremes are not as likely as the values near the mean. Does it work? See 338Canada's full record here.

50% 100% 338Canada Odds of winning the most seats >99% <1% <1% Tie Odds of winning | November 26, 2023
The odds of winning and of outcome are those if a general election were held today. They are calculated by the 338Canada Monte Carlo-type program that runs thousands of general election simulations, using vote projections per riding, past results, and various demographic data as the main variables.
50% 100% 338Canada Odds of outcome 96%▼ CPC maj. 4%▲ CPC min. <1% LPC min. <1% Tie Odds of outcome | November 26, 2023

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Projection of potential coalitions


CPC 208 LPC+BQ 103 L+N+G 100 LPC+NDP 98 LPC+GPC 75 LPC 73 338Canada | November 26, 2023Seat projections of potential coalitions* 170 seats
Not all party combinations are shown on the chart.
50% 100% 96% CPC 4% CPC+BQ 4% CPC+NDP <1% LPC+BQ <1% LPC+NDP <1% L+N+G <1% LPC+GPC <1% LPC 338Canada | November 26, 2023Odds of reaching 170 seats
These are the probabilities of reaching 170 seats in a coalition by necessity. For example: the probability of CPC+BQ is the one where the CPC needs the BQ to reach this threshold.


338Canada popular vote projection

LPC CPC NDP GPC BQ PPC LPC 26% ± 3% CPC 41% ± 4% NDP 19% ± 3% GPC 5% ± 1% BQ 7% ± 1% PPC 3% ± 2% Popular vote projection % 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 2022► 2022-01-01 2022-05-01 2022-09-01 2023► 2023-01-01 2023-05-01 2023-09-01 2024► 2024-01-01 2024-05-01 2024-09-01

338Canada seat projection

LPC 73 [53-105] CPC 208 [172-228] NDP 25 [13-38] GPC 2 [1-3] BQ 30 [25-38] Seat projection 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 2022► 2022-01-01 2022-05-01 2022-09-01 2023► 2023-01-01 2023-05-01 2023-09-01 2024► 2024-01-01 2024-05-01 2024-09-01 LPC CPC NDP GPC BQ Majority: 170 seats

338Canada odds of winning the most seats

LPC <1% CPC >99% Tie <1% 338Canada Odds of winning the most seats 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 2022► 2022-01-01 2022-05-01 2022-09-01 2023► 2023-01-01 2023-05-01 2023-09-01 2024► 2024-01-01 2024-05-01 2024-09-01 LPC CPC Tie

338Canada odds of election outcome

LPC minority <1% CPC majority 96% CPC minority 4% Tie <1% 338Canada Odds of election outcome 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 2022► 2022-01-01 2022-05-01 2022-09-01 2023► 2023-01-01 2023-05-01 2023-09-01 2024► 2024-01-01 2024-05-01 2024-09-01 LPC majority LPC minority CPC majority CPC minority Tie