Track record

Past accuracy

The tracked Canadian projection archive, shown beside the final result. Hits and misses use the same measurements and appear with the same prominence.

Updated October 2026

89.9%

Mean constituency-winner accuracy across tracked Canadian elections

7

Elections tracked

98.0%

Best result: 2024 Nova Scotia General Election

2025 Canadian federal election

Closest absolute seat-count projection in Canada

On the 2025 Canadian federal election, Poliwave produced the most accurate absolute seat-count projection among Canadian electoral forecasters: the smallest aggregate gap between projected and actual seats across the top four parties.

On constituency-level accuracy (the share of seats whose winner the model correctly identified), Poliwave landed within one percentage point of the long-established national benchmark, despite being substantially newer and built by a small independent group rather than an institutional team. The full election-by-election breakdown is below.

That projection was produced with the Excel model that preceded this website.

Election by election most recent first

2026 Quebec General Election

92.1% seats called 6 total seat gap Web model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
PQ6260+2
PLQ3739−2
PCQ1819−1
QS109+1
CAQ00exact

2025 Canadian Federal Election

86.0% seats called 18 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
LPC167169−2
CPC137144−7
BQ2422+2
NDP137+6
GRN21+1

2025 Ontario General Election

85.0% seats called 24 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
PC8780+7
NDP1527−12
LIB1914+5
GRN22exact
OTH11exact

2024 Nova Scotia General Election

98.0% seats called 2 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
PC4443+1
NDP89−1
LIB22exact
OTH11exact

2024 Saskatchewan General Election

92.0% seats called 10 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
SKP2934−5
NDP3227+5

2024 New Brunswick General Election

90.0% seats called 10 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
LIB2631−5
PC2116+5
GRN22exact

2024 BC General Election

86.0% seats called 4 total seat gap Excel model

PartyProjectedActualDifference
NDP4547−2
CON4644+2
GRN22exact

Accuracy is the share of seats whose winner the model identified correctly. The total seat gap is the sum of the absolute differences between projected and actual seats across every party listed, which is the figure the headline claim above refers to. Poliwave scores seat projections rather than vote-share predictions. How the projections are produced is documented on the methodology page.