Canada election 2020-21: 'We'll govern for everyone' says Trudeau, after narrow win – as it happened

Canada election 2019: 'We'll govern for everyone' says Trudeau, after narrow win – as it happened

Liberal Party holds on to power in Canadian federal election, but loses majority

• Full story: Trudeau wins narrow victory to form minority government
• Canada election 2019: full results

Updated 29 Oct 2019

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 Trudeau says voters chose 'progressive agenda' after Canadian election win – video

Kate Lyons and Mattha Busby

Tue 22 Oct 2019 09.24 BSTFirst published on Tue 22 Oct 2019 02.03 BST

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• 22 Oct 2019Closing summary
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• 22 Oct 2019'We will govern for everyone,' says Trudeau
• 22 Oct 2019Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer speak at the same time
• 22 Oct 2019Jagmeet Singh gives triumphant speech despite blow to NDP's numbers
• 22 Oct 2019Victorious Bloc Québécois leader addresses supporters

22 Oct 201909:24

Closing summary

We’re now going to close our live coverage of the Canadian election. Here is an updated version of the summary my colleague Kate Lyons posted earlier.

• Justin Trudeau won a second term as prime minister of Canada in a narrow victory that will mean he will lead a minority government. Its worth noting that minority governments in Canada do not usually last longer than two years.

• Trudeau’s Liberal Party led in 146 out of 304 electoral districts that had reported results by about 10:30pm Toronto time on Monday, short of the 170 needed to security a majority government.

• The New Democratic Party were widely expected to support the Liberals in some way, but the nature of their future relationship in the Canadian parliament remains to be seen and there was speculation that the left-wing party would pull Trudeau in a more progressive direction.

• However, the party led by Jagmeet Singh suffered a blow on election day, dropping to 24 predicted seats from the 44 it won in 2015. However Singh gave no hint of disappointment, dancing and high-fiving supporters after a triumphant speech, in which he said his party would continue to “play a constructive and positive role in the new parliament”.

• Donald Trump congratulated Trudeau for a “a wonderful and hard fought victory”, saying Canada was “well served” by its leader. His congratulations came despite the leaders’ rocky relationship. Trump described Trudeau as “dishonest” and “weak” at last year’s disastrous G7 meeting in Quebec.

• Other world leaders joined a chorus of congratulations for Trudeau, but Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron are yet to comment.
  
• In an awkward moment in the early hours of Tuesday morning, barely a minute after Andrew Scheer started addressing supporters at the Conservative headquarters, Justin Trudeau took to the stage in Montreal to deliver his victory speech, in a highly unconventional moment of political scheduling, which a CTV news anchor suggested was evidence of a “nasty campaign” spilling over into election night. (see 7.29am)
  
• Addressing supporters, Trudeau said the nation had voted in favour of a “progressive agenda” and committed his government to fighting for all Canadians, not just those who voted for him.

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• The leader of the Conservative Party Andrew Scheer said while the night had not ended the way he wanted, the results – which saw the Liberals lose around 20 seats and the Conservatives win a larger share of the popular vote than the Liberals – showed his party had “put Trudeau on notice”. He declared his party is “the government in waiting”.

• The Greens are expected to win three seats – up from one won in the 2015 election (though they gained another seat in a by-election earlier this year), and promised to “hold feet to the fire” in the new parliament, especially to ensure action on the climate crisis.
  
• The real winners in today’s vote were the Bloc Québécois, which are set to win 32 seats, more than tripling the party’s seat count compared to the 2015 election, making it the largest party after the Liberals and Conservatives. The leader of Bloc Québécois Yves-François Blanchet told supporters the desire for Quebec sovereignty ran deep within him but he did not go to parliament to undermine federalism, but would represent the interests of Quebecois in parliament “while we wait for Quebecois to choose another path”, where Quebecois might be “partners, but equals, and free”.

• The election represents a death knell for the country’s fledging far right party, the People’s Party of Canada, writes Martin Petriquin. “Its leader, former Conservative MP Maxime Bernier, adopted the tone and substance of Trumpian nativism, decrying multiculturalism and promising to decrease immigration. Formed just over a year ago, the PPC ran a nearly full slate of candidates, yet failed to win a single seat.”