Party standings in the Canadian House of Commons

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This article is about the current standing in the Canadian House of Commons by party. For a list of members of the current House, see List of House members of the 39th Parliament of Canada.

In the Party standings in the Canadian House of Commons, Members of Parliament are generally seated as a group with members of the caucus of their political party. The members of the governing party or parties are seated to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, while members of opposition parties are generally seated to the left of the Speaker. Where the governing party or parties have more than half the members of the House, members of the government caucus are seated on the "opposition side", and where the government has less than half of the seats, opposition members are seated on the "government side", as is the case with the current Parliament.

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* * * Martin Volpe Bevilacqua Fry Bennett Brison Dryden Rae Hall Findlay Goodale
Dion
 Ignatieff MacAulay Guarnieri Marleau McGuire Easter Godfrey Minna Crête
Duceppe
 Paquette Lalonde Gagnon Ménard Bachand Laframboise Bigras Asselin
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Harper
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Layton
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Harris Mills Thompson Williams Anders Casson Poilievre Carrie Mackenzie Warawa Hawn Gourde Boucher Lukiwski Lemieux Reid Menzies Bruinooge Yelich Komarnicki Jean Keddy Hiebert Doyle Fitzpatrick Gallant Crowder Charlton Angus Cullen Julian Siksay
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Allen Brown Calkins Cannan Davidson Del Mastro Dykstra Fast Lake Manning Mayes Norlock Petit Epp Shipley Stanton Storseth Sweet Van Kesteren Wallace Warkentin Clarke Harvey Lebel Blaney Arthur Dewar Marston Nash Atamanenko Stoffer *


Light blue represents members of the ministry. White dots are party leaders.
The graphic has been updated in accordance with the May 27, 2008 official seating plan.
Official Seating Plan (pdf format)


Parties BC  AB  SK  MB  ON  QC  NB  NS  PE  NL  YK  NT  NU  Total
Conservative Party * 18 28 13 8 40 11 3 2 3 126
Liberal Party * 8 1 3 51 12 6 6 4 4 1 1 95
Bloc Québécois * 49 49
New Democratic Party * 10 3 12 1 1 2 1 30
Independent * 1 2 1 4
Vacant * 1 2 3
Total 36 28 14 14 106 75 10 11 4 7 1 1 1 308

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