The latest results from Elections Canada, with 99.8 percent of the results counted, show that the Liberals are poised to form another minority government.
Preliminary results on the afternoon of April 29 show that the Liberals have won 169 seats, three short of the 172 required to form a majority government. The results could change in the days to come as recounts are expected in some close races.
While it became clear that the Liberals would form government shortly after polls closed in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta at 9:30 p.m. EST on April 28, the high turnout and large number of people voting by mail and in advance polls meant more time was needed to fully tabulate the votes to determine if the party would form a minority or majority government.
According to the preliminary results, the Conservatives have won 144 seats, the Bloc Québécois 22 seats, the NDP seven seats, and the Greens one seat.
With 75,349 polls reported out of the 75,479 across Canada as of 5:30 p.m. EST, just one riding has not yet been called. In Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge in B.C., the Conservative incumbent Mark Dalton is leading the Liberal candidate, Angie Rowell, by over 1,000 votes.
In the 2021 election, the Liberals formed a minority government with 160 seats. The Conservatives won 119 seats in that election, the Bloc 32, the NDP 25, and the Greens two.
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The House of Commons had 338 seats in the 2021 election, but the seat count was increased to 343 ahead of the 2025 election with the introduction of new boundaries, accounting for population growth in Canada.
Party Leaders
Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney said in his victory speech after the April 28 election that he would focus on national unity and building Canada’s economy, while also dealing with U.S. tariffs.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre did not win re-election in his Ottawa seat of Carleton, despite having held the riding for over two decades. Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy received 50.6 percent of the vote in the riding, while Poilievre received 46 percent.
When speaking to supporters just after 1:00 a.m. EST on April 29, before Carleton had been called for Fanjoy, Poilievre said it would be an “ honour to continue to fight for you and to be a champion,” and that political change “takes time.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh also did not win re-election in the riding of Burnaby Central, garnering just 18 percent of the vote to the Liberals’ 42 percent and the Conservatives’ 38 percent. He announced he would step down once his party had chosen an interim leader, but said New Democrats “built the best of Canada, and we aren’t going anywhere.”
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet comfortably won his seat in the Quebec riding of Beloeil-Chambly, while Green Party Co-leader Elizabeth May won re-election in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands.
On April 29, Elections Canada reported that the estimated voter turnout for the latest election was over 68 percent of eligible Canadians, at 19.5 million votes cast. This was the highest number since 2015, but the record for voter turnout in Canada was in 1958 when 79.4 percent of eligible Canadians voted.
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