This page shows results of Canadian federal elections on Vancouver Island.
Like most of British Columbia outside of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island tends to be a battleground between the Conservatives and the New Democratic Party (NDP). This is as true now, as has been in the past, except between 1988 and 2004. In 1988, the NDP swept the island in a wave of popular support that saw the party win the most seats in its history. This was wiped out in 1993 however, when many NDP voters switched to the Reform Party which won every seat except Victoria, which was picked up by the Liberals for the first time since 1968. This arrangement continued until the resurgence of the NDP in 2004, which led to it picking up Nanaimo—Cowichan, while the Liberals benefited by the seat switching of Keith Martin in Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, whose personal popularity allowed him to be re-elected as a Liberal.
Since winning their first seat in the region in seventeen years in 2004, the NDP won two more seats here in 2006 picking up Victoria from the Liberals and Vancouver Island North from the Tories. The Tories won Vancouver Island North back in 2008. In 2011, the NDP picked up Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca from the Liberals while Green Party leader Elizabeth May defeated Tory cabinet member Gary Lunn in Saanich—Gulf Islands to win her party's first elected parliamentary seat in history. The Liberals failed to cross the 15 percent mark in any Vancouver Island-based riding. The island swung hard to the NDP in 2015; May was the only non-NDP MP elected here. In 2019, the Greens were able to pick up Nanaimo-Ladysmith, as well as win over 25% of the vote in Victoria and Esquimalt-Saanich Sooke. The Island is now a 3 way race between the NDP, the Conservatives, and the Greens.
| 2021 election results on Vancouver Island | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
| Total | % | |||
| New Democratic | 170,555 | 37.0 | 6 | |
| Green | 66,819 | 14.6 | 1 | |
| Conservative | 118,160 | 25.7 | ||
| Liberal | 81,548 | 17.8 | ||
| 20,575 | 4.5 | |||
| 681 | 0.15 | |||
| 310 | 0.07 | |||
| 273 | 0.0 | |||
| 201 | 0.0 | |||
| Total | 459,122 | 100 | 7 |
| Election | / | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 33,829 11.5% | 125,184 42.5% | 2,543 0.9% | 129,186 43.9% | 3,613 1.2% | ||||||||
| 1988 | 49,742 15.7% | 138,695 43.9% | 3,012 1.0% | 94,076 29.8% | 26,695 8.4% | 3,994 1.3% | |||||||
| 1993 | 85,732 25.6% | 64,369 19.2% | 3,401 1.0% | 32,638 9.7% | 124,229 37.1% | 24,526 7.3% | |||||||
| 1997 | 79,350 26.1% | 65,325 21.5% | 8,670 2.9% | 16,319 5.4% | 130,561 42.9% | 3,844 1.3% | |||||||
| 2000 | 88,094 28.0% | 40,367 12.8% | 12,291 3.9% | 25,512 8.1% | 140,877 44.8% | 7,486 2.4% | |||||||
| 2004 | 89,248 25.7% | 108,848 31.4% | 111,322 32.1% | 35,182 10.1% | 2,241 0.6% | ||||||||
| 2006 | 83,579 22.7% | 124,640 33.9% | 132,333 36.0% | 24,175 6.6% | 3,112 0.8% | ||||||||
| 2008 | 67,821 18.7% | 142,006 39.3% | 113,924 31.5% | 35,755 9.9% | 2,251 0.6% | ||||||||
| 2011 | 30,125 7.9% | 146,783 38.4% | 146,878 38.5% | 56,751 14.9% | 1,395 0.4% | ||||||||
| 2015 | 100,557 21.3% | 99,934 21.2% | 157,187 33.3% | 111,988 23.8% | 1,854 0.4% | ||||||||
| 2019 | 76,739 15.9% | 116,262 24.1% | 150,437 31.2% | 130,021 27.0% | 8,652 1.8% | ||||||||
| 2021 | 81,548 17.8% | 118,160 25.7% | 170,555 37.0% | 66,819 14.6% | 22,040 4.8% | ||||||||
See main article: 2021 Canadian federal election. |-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Courtenay—Alberni||Susan Farlinger
9,276
13.39%||Mary Lee
22,181
32.03%|||Gord Johns
30,612
44.21%||Susanne Lawson
3,590
5.18%||Robert Eppich
3,467
5.01%||Barbara Biley (M-L)
124
0.18%|||Gord Johns|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Cowichan—Malahat—Langford||Blair Herbert
10,320
16.37%||Alana DeLong
17,870
28.35%|||Alistair MacGregor
26,968
42.78%||Lia Versaevel
3,922
6.22%||Mark Hecht
3,952
6.27%|||||Alistair MacGregor|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke||Doug Kobayashi
14,466
22.07%||Laura Anne Frost
13,885
21.18%|||Randall Garrison
28,056
42.81%||Harley Gordon
5,891
8.99%||Rob Anderson
2,995
4.57%||Tyson Riel Strandlund (Comm.)
249
0.38%|||Randall Garrison|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Nanaimo—Ladysmith||Michelle Corfield
9,314
13.54%||Tamara Kronis
18,627
27.09%|||Lisa Marie Barron
19,826
28.83%||Paul Manly
17,640
25.65%||Stephen Welton
3,358
4.88%|||||Paul Manly|-|rowspan=2 style="background-color:whitesmoke" |North Island—Powell River|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Jennifer Grenz
7,922
13.15%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Shelley Downey
21,670
35.96%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Rachel Blaney
23,833
39.55%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Jessica Wegg
3,656
6.07%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Paul Macknight
2,795
4.64%||Stacey Gastis (Mav.)
310 0.51%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Rachel Blaney|-||Carla Neal (M-L)
77 0.13%|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Saanich—Gulf Islands||Sherri Moore-Arbour
12,056
18.40%||David Busch
14,775
22.55%||Sabina Singh
11,959
18.25%|||Elizabeth May
24,648
37.62%||David Hilderman
1,943
2.97%||Dock Currie (Comm.)
141
0.22%|||Elizabeth May|-|rowspan=2 style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Victoria|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Nikki Macdonald
18,194
27.26%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Hannah Hodson
9,152
13.71%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Laurel Collins
29,301
43.90%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Nick Loughton
7,472
11.19%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |John Randal Phipps
2,065
3.09%||Jordan Reichert (Animal)
273 0.41%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2 |Laurel Collins|-||Janis Zroback (Comm.)
291 0.44%|}
See main article: 2019 Canadian federal election. |-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Courtenay—Alberni||Jonah Baden Gowans
8,620
11.93%||Byron Horner
23,936
33.12%|||Gord Johns
29,790
41.21%||Sean Wood
9,762
13.51%||||Barbara Biley (M-L)
172
0.24%|||Gord Johns|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Cowichan—Malahat—Langford||Blair Herbert
10,301
15.79%||Alana DeLong
16,959
26.00%|||Alistair MacGregor
23,519
36.06%||Lydia Hwitsum
13,181
20.21%||Rhonda Chen
1,066
1.63%||Robin Morton Stanbridge (CHP)
202
0.31%|||Alistair MacGregor|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke||Jamie Hammond
12,554
17.90%||Randall Pewarchuk
13,409
19.12%|||Randall Garrison
23,887
34.06%||David Merner
18,506
26.39%||Jeremy Gustafson
1,089
1.55%||Fidelia Godron (Ind.)
99
0.14%
Louis Lesosky (Ind.)
100
0.14%
Philip Ney (Ind.)
83
0.12%
Josh Steffler (Libert.)
287
0.41%
Tyson Strandlund (Comm.)
111
0.16%|||Randall Garrison|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Nanaimo—Ladysmith||Michelle Corfield
9,735
13.55%||John Hirst
18,634
25.93%||Bob Chamberlin
16,985
23.63%|||Paul Manly
24,844
34.57%||Jennifer Clarke
1,049
1.46%||James Chumsa (Comm.)
104
0.14%
Brian Marlatt (PC)
207
0.29%
Geoff Stoneman (Ind.)
235
0.33%
Echo White (Ind.)
71
0.10%|||Paul Manly|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |North Island—Powell River||Peter Schwarzhoff
8,251
13.11%||Shelley Downey
20,502
32.59%|||Rachel Blaney
23,834
37.88%||Mark de Bruijn
8,891
14.13%||Brian Rundle
1,102
1.75%||Carla Neal (M-L)
48
0.08%
Glen Staples (Ind.)
287
0.46%|||Rachel Blaney|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Saanich—Gulf Islands||Ryan Windsor
11,326
16.62%||David Busch
13,784
20.23%||Sabina Singh
8,657
12.70%|||Elizabeth May
33,454
49.09%||Ron Broda
929
1.36%|||||Elizabeth May|-| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Victoria||Nikki Macdonald
15,952
22.30%||Richard Caron
9,038
12.63%|||Laurel Collins
23,765
33.21%||Racelle Kooy
21,383
29.89%||Alyson Culbert
920
1.29%||Robert Duncan (Comm.)
113
0.16%
Jordan Reichert (Animal)
221
0.31%
Keith Rosenberg (VCP)
46
0.06%
David Shebib (Ind.)
111
0.16%|||Murray Rankin†|}
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