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Canada Election Results 2025 Live Updates: Canadians voted to decide if new Prime Minister Mark Carney will extend the Liberal Party’s years in power or pick the opposition Conservatives’ populist leader Pierre Poilievre to lead the country. The early projections suggest a victory for Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. The election comes months after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and soaring immigration.
Stakes are high due to the threat posed by tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. The winner will face a cost-of-living crisis and Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada, which sends more than 75% of its exports to the US.
Liberal leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney is banking on his central banking experience to counter threats, while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre blames past Liberal governance for Canada’s economic vulnerability to hostile American trade policies.
Results from mail voting and ballots cast at special locations such as military bases and correctional institutions are also reported on the Elections Canada website and released to the news media, but they can take longer to tabulate.
Canada Elections 2025 LIVE: Top updates
- The casting of the ballots began at 7 am local time (7.30 pm IST) in major provinces like Ontario.
- A record 7.3 million Canadians cast ballots before election day.
- Elections Canada says the majority of ballots will be counted on election night.
- Each polling place counts its election day vote by hand after polls close and reports the results to the district’s local Elections Canada office, which then posts the results on the Elections Canada website. Results are also released directly to Canadian news organisations.
- Only preliminary results are available on election night. The first set of election results is reportedly expected to be released on April 29, 10 am IST.
- Vote totals are double-checked in the days following the election, but final, official results typically are not available until about six months after election day, according to Elections Canada.
- Canadian media organisations typically announce winners based on their independent analysis of election results.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to address voters and supporters in the election headquarters shortly, reported CBC.
His riding of Burnaby Central has not been called yet, but he continues to trail by thousands of votes to Liberal candidate Wade Chang.
NDP incumbent Heather McPherson, who is set to win the Edmonton Strathcona seat, said people “were voting out of a sense of fear this election.”
Speaking to CBC, McPherson said that New Democrats are used to a lot of work and they intend to hold the projected Liberal government accountable to their promises to make life more affordable for Canadians.
Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May will continue to represent BC’s Saanich-Gulf Islands in the House of Commons, CBC projected as the counting of votes was underway.
May was first elected to parliament in 2011, and served as Green Party leader from 2008 to 2019 before returning as co-leader in 2022.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will retain power in Ottawa, but even after trends from almost all ridings in the country were available late on Monday night, it was unclear whether he would be able to secure a majority.
Many Canadian voters, while talking to AP, said that they noticed the impact of US President Donald Trump’s policies and tariffs on Canada’s federal election.
In his first 100 days back in the White House, Trump criticised Canada’s leadership, levied tariffs on Canadian goods and talked about making Canada the 51st state.
It had many Canadian voters thinking about Trump and how the parties on the ballot would respond to him.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals reportedly won over Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, a dramatic reversal of fortune credited largely to Trump.
Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party is projected to win only the Quebec seat so far, CBC poll tracker suggested. Alexandre Boulerice’s supporters erupted in cheers and started hugging him as soon as the projections were shown.
Canada’s dollar rose against the greenback as Mark Carney was projected to win in the election, keeping the former central banker in the Prime Minister role and his Liberal Party in power.
The loonie gained 0.1% to 1.3815 per dollar as of 10:16 a.m. in Hong Kong. Futures for the US-listed shares of S&P/TSX 60 Index members were little changed.
