5 key takeaways from Monday's historic vote

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 4:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Canada's 45th wide predetermination has importantly shaken up the creation of the House of Commons.

The historical ballot saw the emergence of a two-horse contention betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives, the illness of NDP enactment and immoderate alternatively important incumbent losses.

Here are 5 takeaways from Monday's election.

Final results inactive not clear

Liberal Leader Mark Carney volition signifier authorities but whether it volition beryllium successful a number oregon bulk Parliament inactive remains unclear.

At the clip of writing, the Liberals were elected oregon starring successful 167 seats — conscionable abbreviated of the 172 needed to signifier a majority.

Over a twelve seats were inactive excessively adjacent to telephone erstwhile Elections Canada decided to intermission counting aft 3 a.m. ET. A bulk is inactive imaginable if the last polls crook the Liberals' way.

NDP illness and the 2-horse race

When the particulate settles, the main communicative of the 2025 predetermination volition apt beryllium the two-horse contention that developed betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives.

A ample portion of the contention processing into a showdown betwixt the 2 parties had to bash with the illness of NDP support, and to a lesser grade a downturn successful the Bloc's fortunes.

Shortly aft midnight successful B.C., Jagmeet Singh said helium would beryllium stepping down with the NDP acceptable to suffer authoritative enactment presumption successful the House and Singh himself acceptable to suffer his ain seat.

WATCH | Singh gets affectional arsenic helium announces helium volition measurement down: 

The Liberals and Conservatives were some capable to feast connected the deficiency of NDP and Bloc support.

The Conservatives picked up a fig of traditionally orangish seats, particularly successful blue-collar ridings similar Ontario's Windsor West and Manitoba's Elmwood-Transcona.

The Liberals, connected the different hand, picked up NDP seats successful B.C. ridings. But the illness of the NDP was besides connected afloat show successful ridings wherever the Liberals held their seats. In Halifax, for example, the NDP person won oregon placed 2nd successful the riding since 2004, but trailed successful 3rd aft Monday's election.

The Liberals besides ate up seats from the Bloc, including successful the South Shore country of Montreal. Those pickups helped offset losses elsewhere, specifically successful Ontario.

2 leaders without seats?

The Liberals besides picked up NDP seats successful B.C. — including Singh's ain riding.

But Singh wasn't the lone person trailing successful his riding. At the clip of writing, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was much than 3,000 votes down Liberal campaigner Bruce Fanjoy successful the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, an electoral territory he's represented since 2004. Poilievre had been trailing successful the ballot number each night.

While Singh resigned, Poilievre signalled his volition to enactment on. 

"It volition beryllium an honour to proceed to combat for you and beryllium a champion for your origin arsenic we spell forward," helium said.

The determination to enactment oregon spell for some leaders apt came down to spot count. The NDP mislaid authoritative enactment presumption successful the House, portion Poilievre's enactment accrued its tally by astir 2 twelve seats — boosting the Conservative fashionable ballot stock astatine the aforesaid time.

Conservatives outperform successful Ontario

Although they didn't triumph government, the Conservatives outperformed astir polls, particularly successful vote-rich Ontario.

Heading into Monday's election, Conservatives were averaging 41 per cent enactment successful Canada's biggest province, according to CBC's Poll Tracker. But the enactment appears to person garnered person to 45 per cent of the ballot successful Ontario.

In presumption of spot count, the enactment was capable to wrestle distant a fig of ridings from some the NDP and Liberals.

Poilievre's enactment was capable to interruption done successful the 905 portion surrounding Toronto — successful Richmond Hill, Vaughn, Brampton and York — portion besides snagging NDP seats successful Windsor and London. 

Federal, provincial blimpish tensions

Speaking of Ontario, Conservative tensions with their provincial counterparts were connected afloat show earlier predetermination night.

Kory Teneyke — of the country's apical Conservative strategists who conscionable helped Ontario Premier Doug Ford triumph a sizable bulk authorities — had publically criticized the national Conservative campaign, accusing the enactment of not adequately addressing the U.S. commercialized war.

Ford himself backed his run manager up erstwhile speaking to reporters earlier this month.

"Sometimes the information hurts," Ford said of Teneyke's criticisms.

Once the polls started rolling successful connected Monday night, showing a better-than-expected effect for the Conservatives — particularly successful Ontario — 1 Conservative campaigner went disconnected connected Ford.

WATCH | Jamil Jivani slams Doug Ford during fiery interview:

"I deliberation Doug Ford is simply a occupation for Ontario and for Canada," Jamil Jivani told CBC News aft winning the Ontario riding of Bowmanville-Oshawa North.

"This guy's a governmental genius due to the fact that helium bushed [Ontario Liberal Leader] Bonnie Crombie and [former Ontario Liberal leader] Steven Del Duca? And present we got to beryllium astir and get proposal from him?" Jivani asked rhetorically.

"He has taken the provincial conservatives and turned it into thing hollow."

Jivani called Ford an "opportunist" and said the radical astir him are "goons." His remarks, erstwhile played astatine the Conservative enactment HQ successful Ottawa, prompted cheers.

Beyond tensions with Ford, the national Conservative run besides had tensions with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, who was notably absent from Poilievre's rally successful Trenton, N.S., past week.