Here's who won the Civix Student Vote

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More than 900,000 students voted crossed the country

The Conservative Party of Canada won the Student Vote.

Civix, the enactment that runs the vote, confirmed the results connected Monday evening.

Pierre Poillievre’s enactment won a minority, taking 165 of the 343 seats successful the House of Commons. 

The Liberals, led by Mark Carney, won 145 seats, forming the Official Opposition.

Overall, 36.4 per cent of the participating students voted for the Conservatives, and 31.7 per cent voted for the Liberals.

More than 900,000 students participated astatine 5,900 schools, from each state and territory.

CBC Kids News contributor Matthew Hines visited Central Technical School successful Toronto, Ontario, to spot however the process works.

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The Bloc Québecois won 18 seats and 2.1 per cent of the popular, oregon overall, vote. 

The NDP (New Democratic Party) won 13 seats and 14.5 per cent of the fashionable vote. 

The Green Party won 2 seats and 7.5 per cent of the fashionable vote. 

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Jonathan Pedneault were the lone 2 leaders who mislaid their seats.

The results amusement “a large displacement from 2021, erstwhile the Liberals and NDP dominated the Student Vote landscape,” said Lindsay Mazzucco, Civix main enforcement serviceman and Student Vote co-founder.

A teen   sits astatine  a table  holding a ruler and a pen, looking astatine  a paper. A pupil  successful  the inheritance  holds a ballot.

A pupil from Central Technical School successful Toronto, Ontario, checks successful a elector connected the school’s predetermination day, April 25. (Image credit: India McAlister/CBC)

How the Student Vote works

Students successful Grades 4 to 12 voted implicit the past week for their section candidate.

The predetermination is tally by students, who beryllium astatine tables and cheque names disconnected lists arsenic their chap students travel to vote.

The organizers manus retired ballots, past voters spell basal down cardboard stands to people their ballots. This keeps their votes private.

The voters past enactment their ballots successful the boxes, and the pupil organizers number the ballots and study the results to Civix.

Mazzucco said the acquisition is meant to animate students to ballot aft they crook 18.

  • WATCH — How kids are preparing for the Civix Student Vote

A pupil  puts a ballot successful  a box. Another pupil  stands beside him and different  pupil  votes successful  the background.

Students instrumentality portion successful the Student Vote astatine Bayview Middle School successful North York, Ontario, connected April 28. (Image credit: Lisa Fender/CBC)

“We’re thrilled with the level of information from schools and students crossed the country, particularly fixed the discourse of a drawback election,” Mazzucco said successful an email to CBC Kids News.

“[The results] connection a glimpse into what matters astir to young Canadians and however aboriginal voters are reasoning astir the absorption of the country.”

The results could alteration implicit the adjacent time oregon truthful arsenic much precocious votes are counted.

Civix said it volition update the numbers Tuesday day with immoderate precocious results.

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TOP IMAGE CREDIT: India McAlister/CBC, Graphic plan by Philip Street/CBC

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