In the party standings in the Canadian Senate, Senators

Canadian Senate

The Senate of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the monarch . The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister...

 are generally seated as a group with members of the caucus

Caucus

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 of their political party. The members of the governing party or parties are seated to the right of the Speaker

Speaker of the Canadian Senate

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 in the Senate of Canada, 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 Senate, 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."

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McCoy

Poy

Moore

Banks

Mitchell

Mahovlich

Chaput

Mercer

Jaffer

Massicotte

Sibbeston

Peterson

Zimmer

Kenny

Dallaire

Dawson

Day

Downe

Hubley

Munson

Poulin

Ringuette

Cordy

Campbell

Merchant

Harb

Dyck

Lovelace Nicholas

Furey

Callbeck

Robichaud*

Joyal*

Fairbairn*

Hervieux-Payette*

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Fraser

Fox*

De Bané*

Smith*

Eggleton*

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Watt

Baker*

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Champagne*

St. Germain*

Verner*

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Comeau

Di Nino

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Johnson

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Oliver

Meighen

Stratton

Thachuk

Angus

Nolin

Nancy Ruth

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Brown

Dickson

Greene

MacDonald

Duffy

Mockler

Wallace

Poirier

Marshall

Rivard

Eaton

Gerstein

Wallin

Raine

Martin

Neufeld

Lang

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Demers

Finley

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Patterson

Plett

Seidman

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Manning

Smith

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Capitalized text represents party leaders. An asterisk (*) represents a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

The Queen's Privy Council for Canada ), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs, though responsible government requires the sovereign or her viceroy,...

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This graphic reflects the Official Seating Plan as of October 26, 2011.

Affiliation		Senators
	Conservative Party Conservative Party of Canada The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...	54
	Liberal Party Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...	43
	Progressive Conservative Caucus Progressive Conservative Party of Canada The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....	1
	Independent	2
	Vacant	5
Total		105