Wins, losses and a recount: What happened in Quebec in the federal election
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UPDATE: On May 1, the validation of the results in the tightly contested Terrebonne riding found that the Bloc candidate, not the Liberal, won the most votes.
The Liberal party rode a wave of Quebec support to a minority government victory after a night of close races across the country.
The party won 43 seats in the province, even more than in 2015, when they won 40 en route to a sweeping majority under leader Justin Trudeau.
It was a significant gain for the party, which won 35 seats in Quebec in the 2021 federal election. The seats helped the Liberals secure a minority government in Ottawa, CBC News projected Tuesday afternoon.
In his victory speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government would work toward uniting Canadians, and he mentioned Quebec specifically.
"We will ensure that Quebec will continue to prosper in a strong Canada," Carney said in French.
Quebec Premier François Legault congratulated Carney in a post to X, Tuesday morning, adding that he'll have more to say in the afternoon.
Many of the Liberals' Quebec seat gains came in the greater Montreal area, which turned a deep shade of red as election results began to pour in Monday evening.
It's a region that normally favours the Liberals; many Montreal ridings consistently support the party, but Monday's federal election brought a more significant wave of support in the formerly Bloc Québécois ridings on the South Shore, among other areas.
La Prairie-Atateken, formerly held by the Bloc, swung Liberal, as did Longueuil-Saint-Hubert. The Liberals held on to their other South Shore ridings, Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville and Longueuil-Charles-LeMoyne.
On the island of Montreal, the electoral map looked largely unchanged from the 2021 election: a sea of Liberal seats punctuated by one orange NDP seat belonging to the party's sole Quebec representative, Alexandre Boulerice, and one light-blue Bloc seat on the eastern tip of the island in the La Pointe-de-l'Île riding.
There was one change: LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, a riding in Montreal's Sud-Ouest borough that swung Bloc in a recent byelection, oscillated decisively the other direction. Claude Guay, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with more than 50 per cent of the vote.
And the Mount-Royal riding, traditionally a Liberal stronghold, broke for incumbent Anthony Housefather after initial results showed Conservative challenger Neil Oberman ahead.
Elsewhere in the greater Montreal area, in Laval, Que., all four ridings stayed Liberal. Just north of that, the Thérèse-De Blainville riding, which had previously gone Bloc, was another Liberal flip.
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