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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May has been re-elected in her Vancouver Island seat of Saanich-Gulf Islands. May fended off challenges from Liberal David Beckham and Conservative Cathie Ounsted, while the NDP’s Colin Plant placed a distant fourth.May credited her win to her campaign’s ground game, but said it was an uphill battle amid intense media speculation she would lose the race.“It developed a momentum based on a rumour, and it became a very hard thing to fight,” he said.“And the reason we were successful here … Greens win, and we’ve always seen this from the devotion and the commitment of volunteers.”May won the riding handily in 2021 with 37.6 per cent of the vote, compared to 22....

Mark Carney has done the unthinkable. With little more than a month’s experience as a politician under his belt, the career bureaucrat brought a flatlining Liberal Party back from the brink and, on Monday night, was projected to win the most extraordinary election in Canada’s recent history.Not that you’d know it from the crowd size at Liberal Party headquarters — Lansdowne Park’s TD Place — as votes began streaming in. At about 10.15pm on Monday night, a raucous applause erupted from a modest crowd assembled on the arena floor when the major media outlets projected a Carney win. But up until about 9.30pm, the cavernous arena was completely devoid of anyone but journalists and security; Liberal supporters were out canvassing until the minute the polls closed.As of midnight, it is still unc...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liberal Leader Mark Carney is projected by Global News to win his Ottawa riding of Nepean in Monday’s federal election, gaining a seat in the House of Commons for the first time. Global News is projecting the Liberals under Carney will form government, giving the party their fourth mandate and keeping Carney in the Prime Minister’s Office.However, it is not clear at this time whether the Liberals will form a majority or minority government. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Carney, the former governor of the Bank ...

The first polls in Canada’s federal election have closed in Newfoundland and Labrador as millions of Canadians cast their ballot in the 2025 federal general election.To watch as the live results of the election roll in, click here.Newfoundland and Labrador was the first province where polls closed on Monday at 8:30 p.m. local time (7 p.m. Eastern or 4 p.m. Pacific time).  Liberal Leader Mark Carney casts his vote in Ottawa on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Election workers count special ballots, ballots cast by Canadians outside their ridings, at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre on the day of the federal election, in Ottawa, on Monday, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is once again calling on Canadians to consider becoming the 51st state — this time on the morning of the federal election. On Monday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Canadians should elect a leader who would lower taxes, increase military might and eradicate tariffs, though he didn’t mention any specific candidate.“Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America,” he posted.“No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. L...

It is voting day in Canada. Global News will have live, real-time results in the maps and interactives on this page from all 343 ridings in Canada as people across the country are heading to the polls to cast their ballot in the 2025 federal election.Voters will elect 343 members of Parliament — five more than in the 2021 election — to serve as their representatives in Ottawa.A party needs 172 seats for a majority government. Global News will have robust coverage online and on-air beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT and hosted by Dawna Friesen, along with senior national affairs correspondent Eric Sorensen and chief political correspondent David Akin, who will be breaking down real-time results from ridings across Canada.Merce...

After a campaign that lasted 35 days, Canadians head to the polls Monday in a federal election punctuated by record-breaking early voter turnout, U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and his repeated attacks on the country’s sovereignty with calls to make Canada the 51st state.Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault spent the past month traversing the country vying for votes. Story continues below advertisement The Liberal party holds a four-point lead heading into Monday, according an Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News that was released Sunday.Preliminary early voting turnout figures from Elections Cana...

Voters across Ontario are heading to the polls to choose Canada’s next prime minister in Monday’s federal election, knowing ballots cast in their province will decide more than one-third of the country’s ridings. The 2025 Canadian election is being fought by candidates over 343 ridings, 122 of which are in Ontario. Parties of all stripes list Toronto’s seat-rich suburbs, in particular, as a key route to power.In recent elections, Ontario has delivered a significant number of Liberal MPs to the House of Commons, with the party completing near-perfect sweeps of Toronto and the surrounding suburbs.The Conservatives have traditionally performed well across rural Ontario, and the NDP has been able to rely on seats in the north and union-heavy parts of western Ontario. The Greens held Kitchener ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size As voters head to the polls Monday, attention is being paid to the four provinces in Atlantic Canada, which are known to offer an early indication of how elections will go. There are 32 seats in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Due to time zones, these ridings report their results first.At dissolution, 23 of those 32 seats were held by Liberal MPs. The Conservatives held eight seats.Meanwhile, there was one vacant seat in Halifax after Liberal MP Andy Fillmore stepped down to run for — and eventually win — mayor of Halifax. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current aff...

As Canadians head to the polls Monday, attention is being paid to whether Quebec voters will put sovereignty on the backburner this federal election in the face of the threats from the United States. Ipsos polls conducted for Global News throughout the campaign have showed signs the province’s decades-long separatist movement might be put to the side and replaced with Canadian solidarity.The province’s electoral landscape has swung dramatically in the federal Liberals’ favour since U.S. President Donald Trump‘s turbulent return to office in January. 2:11 Canada Election 2025: Final poll in campaign shows Liberals with 4 point lead on Conservatives ...