Canada election 2025 live: Pierre Poilievre congratulates Mark Carney after Liberal party wins
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre concedes defeat, congratulates Carney
Conservative leader Stone has congratulated prime minister Mark Carney on his projected election victory, although he noted that he would be leader of a minority government.
He also appeared to rule out stepping down as Conservative leader, despite leading his party to an election loss that was unexpected just months ago.
“It will be an honour to continue to fight for you and be a champion for your cause as we go forward,” Poilievre told supporters.
“We gained well over 20 seats, we got the highest vote share our party has received since 1988.”
Key events
Our correspondent Leyland Cecco in Ottawa writes that Mark Carney has long professed a simple article of faith when navigating through crisis: “A plan beats no plan.”
But Leyland argues that Carney’s election victory was shaped by a series of chance events that hinged more on luck and circumstance than meticulous forethought.
Read his full analysis here:
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre concedes defeat, congratulates Carney
Conservative leader Stone has congratulated prime minister Mark Carney on his projected election victory, although he noted that he would be leader of a minority government.
He also appeared to rule out stepping down as Conservative leader, despite leading his party to an election loss that was unexpected just months ago.
“It will be an honour to continue to fight for you and be a champion for your cause as we go forward,” Poilievre told supporters.
“We gained well over 20 seats, we got the highest vote share our party has received since 1988.”
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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has commented on the election results coming out of Canada, which show Liberal leader Mark Carney on track to defeat the Poile stone-led Conservatives. He said:
Well it looks very positive for him. I’ve had a couple of really warm conversations with him. I thank him for defending Vegemite – [that was] a really practical outcome of the friendship that we have between Australia and Canada. We have a close relationship, we are very similar countries, both part of the Commonwealth, we share a lot in common.
Albanese is asked if it’s a positive for the western alliance that Canada’s incumbent government retained power.
Mark Carney has shown in the short time that he’s been prime minister that he’s determined represent the national interest of Canada.
Asked about Carney’s tough approach to dealing with US president Donald Trump, the prime minister said:
Mark Carney has stood up for national interests, just as I stand up for Australia’s interest.
Jagmeet Singh steps down as leader of NDP after losing seat
Jagmeet Singh has said he will step down as leader of the left-wing New Democratic party (NDP) after conceding the loss of his seat in Burnaby Central. He said he would stay on in the interim until a new leader was found.
Singh thanked his supporters and his family at the NDP election party and congratulated Liberal leader Mark Carney on his victory. He said Carney had “an important job to do” to protect Canada “from the threats of Donald Trump”.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh at risk of losing seat, early results show
Jagmeet Singhleader of the left-wing New Democratic party (NDP)is also facing the potential loss of his seat in Burnaby Central. Early results have him in third place, trailing on 19% behind the Liberals’ Wade Chang and the Conservatives’ James Yan.
The NDP, which previously propped up Trudeau’s minority government, is poised for its biggest-ever loss overall with opinion polls showing it has bled support to the Liberals.
It is currently projected to win just eight seats in the new parliament, meaning it will lose its official party status in the House of Commons for which 12 seats are needed. In the last parliament it was the fourth largest party with 24 seats.
Green party co-leader Elizabeth Maywhom it had been feared would lose her seat, is now projected to win in her riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands with 43%.
The party currently has two parliamentary seats, but pre-election polls had put the party on only around 2%, its worst level in recent years, and there were fears it would struggle to defend them.
Early results showed May’s fellow Green MP, Mike Morrice, trailing in second place in his seat of Kitchener Centre.
May’s co-leader, political newcomer co-leader Jonathan Pedneaultis also trailing behind all other major party candidates on 10% in his riding of Outremont in Montreal.
Full report
Leyland Cecco
Canada’s Liberal party has won a fourth term, capping a miraculous political resurrection for the party – and marking a landmark victory for former central banker and political novice Mark Carney as he prepares to face off against US president Donald Trump.
Late on Monday, the Liberals had won or were leading in enough seats to prevent any other party from forming government, according to the national broadcaster CBC. As results from Canada’s Atlantic provinces and vote-rich Quebec and Ontario came in late on Monday, supporters at the Liberals’ election night party erupted in cheers.
It was not immediately clear if the Liberals will have enough seats for a majority government. A minority government would means Carney’s party will need the support of political opponents to govern. After a narrow victory at the previous federal election, the Liberals relied on the leftwing New Democratic party to help it pass legislation.
For the Liberals, the win marks a remarkable recovery for a party that was, until recently, on track for electoral devastation. Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau served as prime minister for nearly 10 years, but the twilight of his leadership was marked by repeated threats of mutiny, bitter feuding and a fed-up electorate.
The Conservative leader Stone is in a tight race to win his seat of Carleton, which he has held for the last seven terms.
In protest of the country’s “first past the post” electoral system, activists for electoral reform have added 90 names to the ballot – making the ballot more than a metre-long and creating headaches for Elections Canada and the scrutineers.
Early results show Liberal Bruce Fanjoy leading Poilievre by 53% to 43%.
Chrystia Freelandthe former deputy prime minister whose resignation set in train the events that eventually led to Justin Trudeau’s own resignation, has been speaking to CBC after she was projected to retain her riding in University-Rosedale in Ontario with 61.5% of the vote.
She said the Liberal victory was “a remarkable turnaround” and that she was “delighted by our party’s comeback”, adding that the vote came at “an existential moment for Canada”.
Back in December, “people had totally written us off … and now you’re talking about what the strength of our government will be,” she said, adding “kudos to our prime minster Mark Carney … he has been a great campaigner”. Freeland had stood for the Liberal leadership but lost out to Carney.
She said that Canadians had “recognised that this was a critical moment for our country” with the question on the ballot being “who can fight for Canada, who can stand up to Donald Trump”.
Nathalie Provosta survivor of the 1989 massacre at Montreal’s École Polytechnique and now a prominent gun control advocate, is expected to win her seat for the Liberals in the riding of Châteauguay-les Jardins-de-Napiervillein Quebec.
Supporters had feared for her candidacy after prime minister Mark Carney managed to mangle both her name and get the location of the massacre wrong in the same sentence at a campaign event in March.
Preliminary results have her on 44.5% of the vote.
Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, a polling firm, has told Reuters the Liberal win hinged on three factors. He said:
It was the ‘anybody-but-Conservative’ factor, it was the Trump tariff factor, and then it was the [former prime minister Justin] Trudeau departure … which enabled a lot of left-of-center voters and traditional Liberal voters to come back to the party.
David Lametti, a former Liberal justice minister, is giving the credit for the projected Liberal win to Mark Carney. He told CTV:
We were dead and buried in December. Now we are going to form a government.
We have turned this around thanks to Mark.
Mark Carneywho has never been in parliament before, is projected to win a seat in the Ottawa riding of Nepean – that will make him the first prime minister to hold a seat in Ottawa since the 1880s, according to CBC. Preliminary results have him on 63% of the vote.
The Elections Canada website still appears to be experiencing technical difficulties, although results are still going out to news websites via a back-end process.
