CANADA ELECTION: How party leaders performed in their home ridings

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Published April 29, 2025 at 12:54 am

Last Updated May 1, 2025 at 2:36 pm

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The Liberal Party has been given a mandate from Canadians for the fourth time in a row.

Mark Carney is set to remain prime minister, but the Liberals weren’t able to secure a majority and will form a minority government.

READ MORE: Liberals projected to win Canadian election; Carney wins riding

The party leaders’ home ridings also had intriguing races in some cases. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh conceded defeat in Burnaby Central and said he will be stepping down as NDP leader once an interim leader is chosen. The NDP also lost official party status.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also lost his long-held seat in Carleton despite overall gains by the party.

Here is a look at the races in the leaders’ home ridings:

Liberal Leader Mark Carney won the Ottawa riding of Nepean, giving him a seat in the House of Commons for the first time. With all polls reporting, Carney had 46,073 votes (63.8 per cent). The Conservative candidate Barbara Bal was in second with 24,017 (33.2 per cent).

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton. Poilievre had 39,585 votes (45.8 per cent), with Fanjoy at 43,900 votes (50.9 per cent). That’s with all 266 polls reporting. It was a stunning upset. Poilievre was the MP in Carleton for more than 20 years.

The Carleton riding had 91 candidates on the ballot, matching the record for the longest ballot ever in a federal election. It was a result of efforts from a group called the Longest Ballot Committee. Elections Canada had warned that results from Carleton could take longer to report because of the lengthy ballot.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he will step down as the leader of the NDP as soon as a new interim leader is chosen.

Singh conceded defeat in his British Columbia riding of Burnaby Central on election night.

Singh placed third in Burnaby Central, with 9,353 votes (18.2 per cent). The Liberal candidate Wade Chang won with 21,745 votes (42.3 per cent). Conservative candidate James Yan was second at 19,838 votes (38.6 per cent). That was with all 200 polls reporting.

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault lost the Montreal riding of Outremont, having come in last place with just 9.6 per cent of the vote. Liberal cabinet minister Rachel Bendayan won that seat for the fourth time, having received 55.2 per cent of the vote. Pedneault has since stepped down as Green Party co-leader.

Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May, meanwhile, won her Vancouver Island seat of Saanich — Gulf Islands. She received 39.1 per cent of the vote. That’s the only seat the Green Party won in the election.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet won his Quebec riding of Beloeil-Chambly, with 33,535 of 69,397 votes (48.3 per cent).

And People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier came in second-last place in the Quebec riding of Beauce with 5.8 per cent of the vote. There, the Conservative candidate Jason Groleau won with 59.7 per cent. The PPC didn’t win any ridings.

— With files from The Canadian Press

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