Trudeau’s election gamble results in most seats for Liberals, but no majority – Nunatsiaq News

Sep 21, 2021

MONTREAL — Thirty−six days after his fateful decision to send Canadians to the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are poised to secure the most seats in the 2021 federal election but have fallen short of a majority.

The Canadian Press forecast that the Liberals were leading in 156 ridings, the Conservatives in 123, the Bloc Québécois in 29, the NDP in 28 and the Greens in two.

The Liberals enjoyed a healthy lead Monday night as poll results poured in across the country, with signs of hope emerging in Quebec and Ontario after an uncertain kickoff in Atlantic Canada.

Trudeau won his Montreal riding of Papineau, which he nabbed from the Bloc Québécois in 2008 and has retained since.

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