Prime Minister Mark Carney will extend the Liberal Party’s years in power as they were able to secure a minority government in Monday’s election. Conservative populist leader Pierre Poilievre conceded defeat but assured that he and his party will continue to question and hold the minority government accountable.
The Canadian election comes months after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and soaring immigration. In a victory speech before supporters in Ottawa, Mr. Carney stressed the importance of Canadian unity in the face of the threats coming from Washington. He also reiterated a belief he shared while campaigning: that the mutually beneficial system Canada and the U.S. had shared since World War II had ended. “We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” he said.
After polls closed, the Liberals were projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservative Party, though it wasn’t immediately clear if they would win an outright majority or would need to rely on one or more smaller parties to form a government and pass legislation.
Indo-Canadian leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Jagmeet Singh, announced his intent to resign from his post on a night that also saw him lose his own riding of Burnaby Central in British Columbia.
It was a terrible outcome for Singh personally, as he finished third in the constituency with less than 19 percent of the vote share, trailing both the Liberal Party’s Wade Chang and the Conservative Party’s James Yan, each of whom were thousands of ballots ahead of him.
The casting of the ballots for Canada election 2025 began at 7 am local time (7.30 pm IST) in major provinces like Ontario. A record 7.3 million Canadians cast ballots before election day. Each polling place counts its election day vote by hand after polls close and reports the results to the district’s local Elections Canada office, which then posts the results on the Elections Canada website. Results are also released directly to Canadian news organisations.
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