Canada’s next federal government looks to be a Liberal minority under Mark Carney in what turned out to be a highly split vote April 28.
Canada’s Conservative Party fell short of the electoral win projected months ago prior to the resignation of former prime minister Justin Trudeau, but still closed the 41-seat gap with the federal Liberals late in the evening April 28. Seat gains came largely from seats swinging away from the Bloc Québécois and NDP.
Analysts late Monday night also noted the split of the popular vote, with both the Conservatives and Liberals topping 40 per cent as of the time of writing.
Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat in the riding of Carleton, Ont. to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy. NDP party leader Jagmeet Singh was also not re-elected in his riding of Burnaby Central in B.C. The NDP party failed to secure enough seats to maintain official party status.
According to CTV news, Singh has conceded his seat in the House of Commons but remain as interim party leader until a new leader is selected.
At time of writing, 99.2 per cent of polls across Canada have reported results. The Liberals won 166 seats, Progressive Conservatives won 144, Bloc Quebecois had 23, NDP had 7 and the Green Party won 1 seat.
Conservatives dominated most rural ridings in Ontario.
In Atlantic Canada, Kody Blois (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food under Mark Carney’s short period as prime minister prior to the election) held onto his seat in Kings-Hants, Nova Scotia. Heath MacDonald, a former member of the standing committee on agriculture and agri-food was also re-elected in his riding of Malpeque, PEI.
In Quebec, agriculture committee vice-chair Yves Perron of the Bloc Québécois was re-elected in Berthier-Maskinongé. Conservative Jason Groleau won the seat for Beauce, replacing former agriculture committee member and fellow Conservative Richard Lehoux, who did not run in the 2025 election.
Conservative Luc Luc Berthold, former chair of the agriculture committee, also won his seat back in Mégantic-L’Érable-Lotbinière.
Likewise, Conservative incumbent Liane Rood, also a former agriculture committee member, won her riding of Middlesex-London.
Conservative Ben Lobb, who sponsored bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, won his sixth term in Huron-Bruce.
Source: Farmtario / Jonah Grignon
