Talk:42nd Canadian Parliament

how many seats do the liberals need to form a majority government?

Calculating size of Goverment Majority

Quick question: How do you calculate the size of the Government Majority for the party standings table? My assumption is that it is the number of seats of the party (or parties) in government, minus the number of all other seats not currently vacant. This makes sense for the first column: 184 - 99 - 44 - 10 - 1 = 30 which is listed as the government majority. However in the third column following Hunter Tootoo's resignation from the Liberal caucus, shouldn't the majority reduce by 2 from 31 to 29? The number of government seats is reduced by one, but the number of non-government seats is also increased by one. Hunter Tootoo could now theoretically vote against the government in a confidence vote. If I have this wrong, please let me know how Government Majority is calculated. Thanks.Jol123(talk)23:17, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

There seems to be no objection. I'll make the change to the Government Majority numbers based on my assumption that it should beNumber of seats held by the government party/parties - Number of seats held by other parties/independents.Jol123(talk)22:24, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

1, why would the Speaker be included in the ranks of the party he or she was elected with? The Speaker only votes when there's a tie, and then, by custom, votes for the status quo. For this reason, once the Speaker has been elected, the standings should change to reduce his party's holdings by one seat until he resigns as Speaker. 2, I want to create a standings change chart for the 34th Parliament but I can't find where the chart in this article (so I can study the coding) is located, because it is not in the article itself.GBC(talk)18:50, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Updating required

According to the HoC website, the NDP have39seats & there's5vacancies.GoodDay(talk)23:40, 15 September 2019 (UTC)