Mark Carney leads Liberals to minority government victory

Mark Carney headshot from 2025. | Mark Carney Twitter

Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada will remain in Parliament for another term.

The Liberals won the Federal Election for a 4th consecutive time and will form a minority government just like they did in 2021.

As of 2:07am (Tuesday), this was the seat count:

(172 needed for a majority)

  • Liberals (leading or elected): 168 seats (43.5%)
  • Conservatives (leading or elected) : 144 seats (41.4%)
  • Bloc Quebecois: (leading or elected) 23 seats (6.4%)
  • N.D.P: (leading or elected) 7 seats (6.2%)
  • Green Party: (leading or elected) 1 seat (2.4% includes Green and other)

Carney won the Nepean riding with 63.7% of the vote (44,980), with Conservative Barbara Bal finishing second with 33.4% (23,600).

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre failed to win the Carleton riding with 46.9% (29,437) of the vote. Liberal Bruce Fanjoy won with 49.6% (31,110).

Poilievre said he will remain the leader of the Conservative Party.

N.D.P leader Jagmeet Singh was unable to secure the Burnaby Central riding, finishing third with only 18.1% (8,688) of the votes. Liberal Wade Chang won the riding with 41.8% (20,048).

Singh announced he will step down as the NDP leader once a replacement is named.

The national voter turnout was 63.32%.  (18,063,033 of 28,525,638 registered electors — does not include electors who registered on election day.

More information and results can be found on Elections Canada’s website here.

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