Monday’s results mean that Trudeau will continue to lead a minority government that will need to rely on other parties in the parliament to pass legislation.
published at 1 p.m. EDT, Trudeau’s Liberal Party led the vote count in 156 seats putting it well ahead of the Conservative Party’s 121 seats.
The Quebec nationalist party, Bloc Québécois is the third biggest party, leading 32 seats while the progressive New Democratic Party and the Green Party led in 27 seats and 2 seats respectively. Despite leading the charts, the Liberal Party will fall well short of the 170 seat majority mark that Trudeau hoped to secure when he called the snap elections.
The outcome means that Trudeau’s minority government will need support from opposition parties, such as the left-leaning New Democratic Party, to pass legislation. On paper, the results also mean that the Liberal government will remain vulnerable to being toppled from power if the opposition parties band together.
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