The Latest: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win election

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney s Liberal Party has won Canada s federal polling The triumph Monday capped a dramatic turnaround for the Liberals fueled by U S President Donald Trump s threats to Canada s business activity and sovereignty The Liberals looked headed for defeat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and soaring immigration But U S President Donald Trump began threatening Canada s market system and sovereignty infuriating Canadians and generating a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the electoral process narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power The country is also grappling with the aftermath of a fatal car ramming attack on Saturday in Vancouver The tragedy prompted the suspension of campaigning for several hours Police ruled out terrorism and declared the suspect is a local man with a history of mental medical issues The Latest Mark Carney s Liberals win voting Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects The win Monday caps a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U S President Donald Trump s annexation threats and contract war The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the national masses broadcaster declared the Liberals will win more of Parliament s seats than the Conservatives It wasn t clear yet if the Liberals will win an outright majority which would allow them to pass measure without needing help The Liberals looked headed for a crushing defeat until the American president started attacking Canada s market and threatening its sovereignty suggesting it should become the st state Trump s actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the balloting narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power The opposition Conservative Party s leader Pierre Poilievre hoped to make the polling a referendum on former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose But Trump attacked Trudeau resigned and Carney a two-time central banker became the Liberal Party s leader and prime minister All polls closed across Canada As of p m EDT all polls have closed across Canada Several areas across Eastern Central and Mountain Time wrapped up voting at the same time p m EDT as well as in Saskatchewan Those poll closures also included Ontario and Quebec Canada s the bulk populous provinces The remaining two provinces British Columbia and Yukon closed polls minutes later Canadians aren t directly electing their prime minister Voters in each of Canada s federal electoral districts are only electing their local representative to the House of Commons The leader of whichever party wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons will form a new establishment and serve as prime minister If no party wins a majority a party usually the one with the bulk seats can form a minority executive but must rely on promotion from selected opposition members In rare cases two or more parties might reach a formal agreement to form a coalition governing body together In this poll it s paper ballots only Elections Canada has announced it s sticking with paper ballots which are hand counted for these federal elections Candidates may appoint representatives to oversee the count Results from polling stations are shared to Elections Canada which releases them online Results typically trickle out as polls close since ballot boxes themselves aren t relocated to centralized places for counting Various say they voted for change Sisters Laiqa and Mahira Shoaib declared they both voted for change in Monday s vote Laiqa a -year-old vitality care worker voted for the New Democratic Party Mahira who works at a bank supported the Conservative Party The sisters who immigrated from Pakistan a decade ago say the economic activity has worsened and job opportunities have dried up under Liberal rule It was different when we arrived Laiqa Shoaib announced after casting her ballot at a public center in Mississauga Ontario just outside of Toronto We need to get out of Liberals Mahira Shoaib announced Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the best candidate to improve the country s financial picture He is business-minded and that s what we need right now she disclosed Both sisters explained President Trump s rhetoric and tariff plans also influenced their voting decisions Elbows up pops up as a way to show Canadian unity What does it mean It comes from hockey Canada s signature sport but it s playing a role in this year s elections too The phrase dates back to Gordie Howe a longtime Detroit Red Wings hockey contestant from Saskatchewan known for his toughness and use of his elbows in fending off opponents Since Trump s comments about annexing Canada as a U S state and his tariffs on Canadian exports Elbows up has popped up across social media as a way to show Canadian unity against Trump s threats Comedian Mike Myers a Canadian appeared in an ad with Carney both men clad in Never jerseys and popping up their elbows alongside a hockey rink Last month Myers also appeared on NBC s Saturday Night Live in a Canada Is Not For Sale T-shirt Trump insists that Canada necessities the US more than the US demands it Trump reinserted himself into Canada s voting during a signing ceremony inside the Oval Office saying Canada would cease to exist as a country if the U S stopped buying its goods I have to be honest as a state it works great stated Trump who previously threatened to make the country the st state through economic coercion Trump reiterated his claim that the U S doesn t need anything from Canada including autos and oil Carney declared last week that eliminating contract obstructions within Canada would benefit Canadians as he made his matter to retain power Carney has set a goal of free contract within the country s provinces and three territories by July Canada has long had interprovincial transaction impediments We can give ourselves far more than Donald Trump can ever take away Carney reported We can have one economic activity This is within our grasp Read more about Trump and Carney s comments Trump says Canada as a US state would be great As Canadians vote Trump has reiterated his stance on incorporating the northern neighbor In an interview with The Atlantic posted online Monday the U S president declared his country doesn t need gasoline oil lumber or potential of any type from Canada Nearly a quarter of the oil America consumes per day comes from Canada About of U S crude oil imports are from Canada as are of U S electricity imports Nearly billion Canadian US billion worth of goods and services cross the margin each day Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel aluminum and uranium to the U S and has critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national measure Elections Canada says majority of ballots will be counted on poll night Elections Canada says it expects to count the vast majority of ballots on electoral process night Each polling place counts its ballot 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 distributed directly to Canadian news organizations Results from mail voting and ballots cast at special locations such as military bases and correctional institutions are also informed on the Elections Canada website and published to the news media but they can take longer to tabulate Only preliminary results are available on ballot night Vote totals are double-checked in the days following the ballot but final official results typically are not available until about six months after voting process day according to Elections Canada Elections Canada does not declare winners in any district or in the overall contest for prime minister Canadian media organizations typically announce winners based on their own independent analysis of electoral contest results Here s how votes are counted All ballots are counted by hand by federal polling representatives in the presence of observers usually campaign or party representatives Ballots cast in person on voting day are counted at each local polling place after polls close Ballots cast in person before poll day and mail ballots cast from within the district are tabulated at the district s local Elections Canada office Ballots from incarcerated voters members of the military Canadians living overseas and voters who live in Canada but outside their home district such as a few college students are counted at a centralized Elections Canada facility in Ottawa Poll closings are somewhat synchronized across six time zones Canada s vast expanse has six time zones but polls are somewhat synchronized to end at about the same time across the country Polls in Newfoundland close at p m EDT Areas just west of that including Nova Scotia are on Atlantic Time and vote until p m EDT A great number of areas across Eastern Central and Mountain Time all wrap up voting at p m EDT as well as in Saskatchewan Polls in Pacific Time are open until p m EDT Others are in contention and another party leader urges voters to protect Canada Other parties are fielding candidates as well One is Jagmeet Singh who heads the progressive New Democratic Party and responded on X to Trump s remarks by telling voters that You can protect what makes Canada Canada Every New Democrat you send to Ottawa will stand up for our country And never back down There s also Yves-Fran ois Blanchet who leads Bloc Qu b cois a Quebec nationalist party In March Carney called for Parliament to be dissolved to pave the way for the voting At the time the Liberals held seats and the Conservatives had Bloc Qu b cois held seats and the NDP held Others were held by unrecognized parties independents or were vacant Canada is a constitutional monarchy with Britain s King Charles III serving as ceremonial head of state The country s electoral system is modeled after the U K s How the prime minister and members of Parliament are elected A member of the House of Commons will be elected in each of the nation s federal electoral districts also known as a constituency or a riding The winner in each district is the candidate who receives the the greater part votes A majority vote is not required to get elected to Parliament This is sometimes called a first-past-the-post system The leader of the party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons will form a new cabinet and serve as prime minister If no party wins a majority a party usually the one with the the majority seats can form a minority administration but must rely on assistance from several opposition members In rare cases two or more parties might reach a formal agreement to form a coalition ruling body together Canada s Parliament has an upper chamber called the Senate but those members are appointed and do not play a role in determining the prime minister A Toronto voter says Poilievre sounds like mini-Trump Toronto resident Reid Warren says he voted Liberal because Poilievre sounds like mini-Trump to me And he says Trump s tariffs are a worry Canadians coming together from you know all the shade The winner will face multiple challenges Canada has been dealing with a cost-of-living problem for particular time and Trump s threat to impose sweeping tariffs and his desire to get North American automakers to move Canada s production south could severely damage the Canadian economic activity Both Carney and Poilievre disclosed that if elected they would accelerate renegotiations of a free pact deal between Canada and the U S to end the uncertainty hurting both of their economies Carney has notable experience navigating economic crises after running Canada s central bank and later becoming the first non-U K citizen to run the Bank of England Poilievre urges Trump to stay out of referendum Poilievre who has been criticized for not taking a firmer stance against Trump responded to the U S president s post with a post of his own President Trump stay out of our ballot The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box he posted Canada will invariably be proud sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the st state Poilievre and his wife voted in their suburban district near the nation s capital Ottawa Trump s attacks have put Poilievre and the Conservative Party on the defensive The Americans want to break us so they can own us Carney declared lately Those aren t just words That s what s at menace Trump trolls Canadians on vote day The U S president trolled Canadians on social media suggesting that he himself is on the ballot repeating that Canada should become the st state and incorrectly claiming that the U S subsidizes Canada It makes no sense unless Canada is a State Trump posted Canadians have canceled U S vacations refused to buy U S and voted early a record million Canadians cast ballots before their Polling Day Source