The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.
Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.
Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.
Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.
I find it really fucking hilarious he lost his own seat. The auction seems like it went well for canada. I wonder who the Liberals are going to form a coalition with
From yesterday’s reports it looked like they won majority, so technically they don’t need to form a coalition?
Edit: looks like they don’t have majority and still need a coalition.
168 of 172 needed for a majority.
They won, but it’s a minority govt.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11095128/canada-election-live-results-2025-vote/
So they’ll be starting with the Quebec nationalists (yuck) and greens (maybe yuck)? I’m not intimately familiar with the Canadian parties, but this doesn’t seem like a strong position for them.
If only all cons would lose their seats the world would be a better place…
Canada had the worst performance per capita in the entire OECD since the Liberals took over, beating only Luxembourg. Which now theres a doctor shortage, an extreme housing shortage, food bank usage is up dramatically; all after we took on a lot of debt that we now pay interest on. Can you say the cons would have been worse than all that?
Absolutely… if it had been up to Harper (conservative PM for those who don’t know), we would have crashed irreparably during the housing market crash of 2008… Not only was he advocating deregulation of banks for a full decade before the debacle (trying to mimic the USA as always) but even months before the collapse he was still drumming the “I see no problem here” just to pivot to “I have never been more worried about the state of the Canadian economy” in the span of 3 months… and this is the “Economist PM” the cons sold us
God bless you Canada
Fucking A, Canada. That was awesome! Not only did you punch Smol PP in the dick, you pantsed him as well!
No, not pantsed. Just embarrassed.
They still massively increased their vote share, and the Liberals are still at the mercy of either the Bloc or the NDP for anything constructive.
What we might see, hopefully, is an east-west splitting of the conservatives back into sane-east coast cons, who were largely shut out again this election, and leave the west to its Alberta based Reform party insanity.
Yes, this chart shows how it’s not a good result for anyone on the left (though much better than a Conservative government):
Source: National Post
I wonder if the Canadian government could help their numbers if they shut off Twitter and Meta?
Those two platforms are a massive source of disinformation and hate.
Tangentially, his riding has like 91 candidates to protest against the first past the post system, which is pretty funny too
