The Latest: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win election
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney s Liberal Party has won Canada s federal poll The preeminence Monday capped a dramatic turnaround for the Liberals fueled by U S President Donald Trump s threats to Canada s economic activity and sovereignty The Liberals looked headed for defeat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and soaring immigration But U S President Donald Trump began threatening Canada s business sector and sovereignty infuriating Canadians and generating a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the ballot narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power The country is also grappling with the aftermath of a fatal car ramming attack on Saturday in Vancouver The tragedy prompted the suspension of campaigning for several hours Police ruled out terrorism and stated the suspect is a local man with a history of mental robustness issues The Latest Mark Carney s Liberals win ballot Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects The win Monday caps a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U S President Donald Trump s annexation threats and commerce war The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the national general broadcaster mentioned the Liberals will win more of Parliament s seats than the Conservatives It wasn t clear yet if the Liberals will win an outright majority which would allow them to pass law without needing help The Liberals looked headed for a crushing defeat until the American president started attacking Canada s market and threatening its sovereignty suggesting it should become the st state Trump s actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the ballot narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power The opposition Conservative Party s leader Pierre Poilievre hoped to make the poll a referendum on former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose But Trump attacked Trudeau resigned and Carney a two-time central banker became the Liberal Party s leader and prime minister All polls closed across Canada As of p m EDT all polls have closed across Canada Plenty of areas across Eastern Central and Mountain Time wrapped up voting at the same time p m EDT as well as in Saskatchewan Those poll closures also included Ontario and Quebec Canada s greater part populous provinces The remaining two provinces British Columbia and Yukon closed polls minutes later Canadians aren t directly electing their prime minister Voters in each of Canada s federal electoral districts are only electing their local representative to the House of Commons The leader of whichever party wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons will form a new ruling body and serve as prime minister If no party wins a majority a party usually the one with the largest part seats can form a minority executive but must rely on backing from various opposition members In rare cases two or more parties might reach a formal agreement to form a coalition administration together In this vote it s paper ballots only Elections Canada has announced it s sticking with paper ballots which are hand counted for these federal elections Candidates may appoint representatives to oversee the count Results from polling stations are announced to Elections Canada which releases them online Results typically trickle out as polls close since ballot boxes themselves aren t relocated to centralized places for counting Several say they voted for change Sisters Laiqa and Mahira Shoaib mentioned they both voted for change in Monday s voting process Laiqa a -year-old wellbeing care worker voted for the New Democratic Party Mahira who works at a bank supported the Conservative Party The sisters who immigrated from Pakistan a decade ago say the business sector has worsened and job opportunities have dried up under Liberal rule It was different when we arrived Laiqa Shoaib disclosed after casting her ballot at a population center in Mississauga Ontario just outside of Toronto We need to get out of Liberals Mahira Shoaib announced Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the best candidate to improve the country s financial picture He is business-minded and that s what we need right now she mentioned Both sisters revealed President Trump s rhetoric and tariff plans also influenced their voting decisions Elbows up pops up as a way to show Canadian unity What does it mean It comes from hockey Canada s signature sport but it s playing a role in this year s elections too The phrase dates back to Gordie Howe a longtime Detroit Red Wings hockey athlete from Saskatchewan known for his toughness and use of his elbows in fending off opponents Since Trump s comments about annexing Canada as a U S state and his tariffs on Canadian exports Elbows up has popped up across social media as a way to show Canadian unity against Trump s threats Comedian Mike Myers a Canadian appeared in an ad with Carney both men clad in Never jerseys and popping up their elbows alongside a hockey rink Last month Myers also appeared on NBC s Saturday Night Live in a Canada Is Not For Sale T-shirt Trump insists that Canada demands the US more than the US demands it Trump reinserted himself into Canada s polling during a signing ceremony inside the Oval Office saying Canada would cease to exist as a country if the U S stopped buying its goods I have to be honest as a state it works great explained Trump who previously threatened to make the country the st state through economic coercion Trump reiterated his claim that the U S doesn t need anything from Canada including autos and oil Carney reported last week that eliminating contract hindrances within Canada would benefit Canadians as he made his situation to retain power Carney has set a goal of free business within the country s provinces and three territories by July Canada has long had interprovincial exchange limitations We can give ourselves far more than Donald Trump can ever take away Carney stated We can have one market system This is within our grasp Read more about Trump and Carney s comments Trump says Canada as a US state would be great As Canadians vote Trump has reiterated his stance on incorporating the northern neighbor In an interview with The Atlantic posted online Monday the U S president explained his country doesn t need gasoline oil lumber or strength of any type from Canada Nearly a quarter of the oil America consumes per day comes from Canada About of U S crude oil imports are from Canada as are of U S electricity imports Nearly billion Canadian US billion worth of goods and services cross the dividing line each day Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel aluminum and uranium to the U S and has critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national shield Elections Canada says majority of ballots will be counted on polling night Elections Canada says it expects to count the vast majority of ballots on voting process night Each polling place counts its referendum day vote by hand after polls close and reports the results to the district s local Elections Canada office which then posts the results on the Elections Canada website Results are also distributed directly to Canadian news organizations Results from mail voting and ballots cast at special locations such as military bases and correctional institutions are also informed on the Elections Canada website and published to the news media but they can take longer to tabulate Only preliminary results are available on balloting night Vote totals are double-checked in the days following the electoral process but final official results typically are not available until about six months after vote day according to Elections Canada Elections Canada does not declare winners in any district or in the overall contest for prime minister Canadian media organizations typically announce winners based on their own independent analysis of electoral process results Here s how votes are counted All ballots are counted by hand by federal polling executives in the presence of spectators usually campaign or party representatives Ballots cast in person on voting process day are counted at each local polling place after polls close Ballots cast in person before balloting day and mail ballots cast from within the district are tabulated at the district s local Elections Canada office Ballots from incarcerated voters members of the military Canadians living overseas and voters who live in Canada but outside their home district such as specific college students are counted at a centralized Elections Canada facility in Ottawa Poll closings are somewhat synchronized across six time zones Canada s vast expanse has six time zones but polls are somewhat synchronized to end at about the same time across the country Polls in Newfoundland close at p m EDT Areas just west of that including Nova Scotia are on Atlantic Time and vote until p m EDT Countless areas across Eastern Central and Mountain Time all wrap up voting at p m EDT as well as in Saskatchewan Polls in Pacific Time are open until p m EDT Others are in contention and another party leader urges voters to protect Canada Other parties are fielding candidates as well One is Jagmeet Singh who heads the progressive New Democratic Party and responded on X to Trump s remarks by telling voters that You can protect what makes Canada Canada Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country And never back down There s also Yves-Fran ois Blanchet who leads Bloc Qu b cois a Quebec nationalist party In March Carney called for Parliament to be dissolved to pave the way for the polling At the time the Liberals held seats and the Conservatives had Bloc Qu b cois held seats and the NDP held Others were held by unrecognized parties independents or were vacant Canada is a constitutional monarchy with Britain s King Charles III serving as ceremonial head of state The country s electoral system is modeled after the U K s How the prime minister and members of Parliament are elected A member of the House of Commons will be elected in each of the nation s federal electoral districts also known as a constituency or a riding The winner in each district is the candidate who receives the greater part votes A majority vote is not required to get elected to Parliament This is sometimes called a first-past-the-post system The leader of the party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons will form a new ruling body and serve as prime minister If no party wins a majority a party usually the one with the majority of seats can form a minority establishment but must rely on advocacy from specific opposition members In rare cases two or more parties might reach a formal agreement to form a coalition executive together Canada s Parliament has an upper chamber called the Senate but those members are appointed and do not play a role in determining the prime minister A Toronto voter says Poilievre sounds like mini-Trump Toronto resident Reid Warren says he voted Liberal because Poilievre sounds like mini-Trump to me And he says Trump s tariffs are a worry Canadians coming together from you know all the shade The winner will face a multitude of challenges Canada has been dealing with a cost-of-living problem for various time and Trump s threat to impose sweeping tariffs and his desire to get North American automakers to move Canada s production south could severely damage the Canadian financial system Both Carney and Poilievre noted that if elected they would accelerate renegotiations of a free pact deal between Canada and the U S to end the uncertainty hurting both of their economies Carney has notable experience navigating economic crises after running Canada s central bank and later becoming the first non-U K citizen to run the Bank of England Poilievre urges Trump to stay out of poll Poilievre who has been criticized for not taking a firmer stance against Trump responded to the U S president s post with a post of his own President Trump stay out of our electoral process The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box he posted Canada will inevitably be proud sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the st state Poilievre and his wife voted in their suburban district near the nation s capital Ottawa Trump s attacks have put Poilievre and the Conservative Party on the defensive The Americans want to break us so they can own us Carney mentioned in recent times Those aren t just words That s what s at pitfall Trump trolls Canadians on referendum day The U S president trolled Canadians on social media suggesting that he himself is on the ballot repeating that Canada should become the st state and incorrectly claiming that the U S subsidizes Canada It makes no sense unless Canada is a State Trump posted Canadians have canceled U S vacations refused to buy U S and voted early a record million Canadians cast ballots before their Electoral process Day Source
