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| Canada election results: One in six seats changed parties | Canada election results: One in six seats changed parties |
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| While the government of Canada may not have changed hands, the federal election results are anything but business as usual. | While the government of Canada may not have changed hands, the federal election results are anything but business as usual. |
| Party leaders lost their own seats, the New Democratic Party (NDP) now faces the possibility of life on the sidelines and the Liberal Party pulled off a dramatic turnaround in fortunes, all while led by a prime minister who wasn't even a member of Parliament (MP). | Party leaders lost their own seats, the New Democratic Party (NDP) now faces the possibility of life on the sidelines and the Liberal Party pulled off a dramatic turnaround in fortunes, all while led by a prime minister who wasn't even a member of Parliament (MP). |
| Validated results for most districts from Elections Canada show that 17% of seats - 58 out of 343 - changed hands in this election, up from just 7% - 22 out of 338 - in 2021. | |
| The rise in the number of available seats in the House of Commons, from 338 to 343, reflects a new political map which accounts for changes in population. | The rise in the number of available seats in the House of Commons, from 338 to 343, reflects a new political map which accounts for changes in population. |
| Leaders from three of the five parties represented in the House of Commons failed to win their seats. | Leaders from three of the five parties represented in the House of Commons failed to win their seats. |
| Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre - who was on course to become prime minister three months ago when his party held a double-digit lead in the polls - lost his seat in Carleton, Ontario to the Liberals. | Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre - who was on course to become prime minister three months ago when his party held a double-digit lead in the polls - lost his seat in Carleton, Ontario to the Liberals. |
| Jagmeet Singh resigned as NDP leader after finishing third in his British Columbia seat of Burnaby Central, while the Green Party's co-leader Jonathan Pedneault came fifth in Outremont, Quebec. | Jagmeet Singh resigned as NDP leader after finishing third in his British Columbia seat of Burnaby Central, while the Green Party's co-leader Jonathan Pedneault came fifth in Outremont, Quebec. |
| Only Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois and Elizabeth May, the other Green co-leader, retained their seats while Mark Carney became an MP for the first time. | Only Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois and Elizabeth May, the other Green co-leader, retained their seats while Mark Carney became an MP for the first time. |
| All 58 seats that flipped went to either the Liberals or Conservatives. | |
| The NDP lost 17 of the 24 seats they were defending - 10 to the Conservatives and seven to the Liberals - and fell short of the 12 seats required for official party status. | The NDP lost 17 of the 24 seats they were defending - 10 to the Conservatives and seven to the Liberals - and fell short of the 12 seats required for official party status. |
| This means the loss of parliamentary funding for things like office budgets and technology equipment, as well as fewer chances to ask questions of the government and sit on committees. | This means the loss of parliamentary funding for things like office budgets and technology equipment, as well as fewer chances to ask questions of the government and sit on committees. |
| NDP losses were part of a wider shift away from Canada's smaller parties. | NDP losses were part of a wider shift away from Canada's smaller parties. |
| The Bloc Québécois had 35 seats going into Monday's vote, taking into consideration the impact of boundary changes on 2021 results - calculated by Elections Canada - and last year's victory in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election. | The Bloc Québécois had 35 seats going into Monday's vote, taking into consideration the impact of boundary changes on 2021 results - calculated by Elections Canada - and last year's victory in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election. |
| It lost 13 of them, with all but one going to the Liberals. | |
| Terrebonne, a suburb of Montreal, had to go to a judicial recount which found that it had been won by the Liberals by just one vote. | |
| Meanwhile, the Greens lost their Kitchener Centre riding, the first Ontario seat in their history, to the Conservatives. | |
| Despite making overall gains it was still a turbulent night for incumbents in the two largest parties. | Despite making overall gains it was still a turbulent night for incumbents in the two largest parties. |
| The Liberals gave up 15 seats - all to the Conservatives - which was twice as many as the eight they lost in 2021. | The Liberals gave up 15 seats - all to the Conservatives - which was twice as many as the eight they lost in 2021. |
| Eight of the 15 losses came in Toronto and the surrounding "905" - places that all share the same area code. | Eight of the 15 losses came in Toronto and the surrounding "905" - places that all share the same area code. |
| Preliminary results suggested the Conservatives had taken another, Milton East-Halton Hills South by 298 votes. However, Elections Canada's vote validation process found it had stayed Liberal by just 29 votes. The result will now go to a judicial recount. | |
| The Conservatives saw 12 of their MPs suffer defeat including Poilievre, up from nine four years ago. | The Conservatives saw 12 of their MPs suffer defeat including Poilievre, up from nine four years ago. |
| All 12 were won by Liberals, including Toronto St Paul's which the Conservatives previously flipped in a 2024 by-election. | All 12 were won by Liberals, including Toronto St Paul's which the Conservatives previously flipped in a 2024 by-election. |
| Correction 11 May: This article was amended to say that the Conservatives won the Kitchener Centre riding, not the Liberals as we previously reported. | |
| RESULTS: How Canada voted - in charts | RESULTS: How Canada voted - in charts |
| ANALYSIS: Why Carney's Liberals won - and the Conservatives lost | ANALYSIS: Why Carney's Liberals won - and the Conservatives lost |
| WATCH: How Canada’s election night unfolded | WATCH: How Canada’s election night unfolded |
| PROFILE: Who is Mark Carney, Canada's new PM? | PROFILE: Who is Mark Carney, Canada's new PM? |
| VOTERS: How I decided who gets my vote | VOTERS: How I decided who gets my vote |
| US VIEW: A turnaround victory made possible by Trump | US VIEW: A turnaround victory made possible by Trump |