Canada Election Results: Trudeau Wins Re-Election—With a Minority
Seats leading and percentage of national vote
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have won a second term with a parliamentary minority. Even though they were trailing in the polls for most of the summer, the Liberals managed to pull ahead of the Conservatives in the final seat count on election day, winning 27 fewer ridings compared with the 2015 election.
Despite better than expected results, Trudeau has lost the popular vote nationally to his Conservative rival Andrew Scheer, and must now work with opposition parties to advance his government’s agenda.
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Seats by province or territory
- Liberals
- Conservatives
- New Democrats
- Green Party
- Bloc Quebecois
- Independent
1 British Columbia
The Liberals lost six seats here, and former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, at the center of the SNC-Lavalin affair, retained her seat in Vancouver as the country’s only independent.
2 The Prairies
The Liberals were wiped out in Alberta and Saskatchewan, in terms of seats, but also in terms of the popular vote, with respectively just 14 and 12% in each province, mainly due to anger at their energy policy.
3 Ontario and Toronto
The needle barely moved for the Conservatives in seat-rich and heavily populated Ontario, with no net gain at all in Toronto.
4 Quebec
If the Liberals ever had hopes of winning enough seats for a majority, they were dashed by the Bloc Quebecois’ resurgence in the French-speaking province, going from 10 to 32 seats here.
Correction: A previous version of this graphic incorrectly stated that the Liberals lost 20 seats compared with the 2015 election. They lost 27 seats.