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September 16, 2024 A federal by-election was held in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun . Louis-Philippe Sauvé of the Bloc Québécois flipped the seat from the Liberal Party.
Trudeau, 51, has defied low polling numbers before, to win three elections, starting in 2015. Last month, the Conservatives led the Liberals 39% to 30%, an Ipsos poll showed.
Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, had reportedly been courted by the party for the leadership in 2012, and had been rumoured as a star candidate in the 2021 election. [36] In November 2024, Carney did not rule out a future leadership bid. [ 37 ]
The resulting ballot papers were 90 centimetres (35 in) long, requiring temporary changes to the Elections Act due to their unprecedented size. [36] One candidate, Félix-Antoine Hamel, did not receive any votes, and is believed to be the first candidate to receive zero votes in a federal election in Canadian history.
The total of 91 candidates broke the record for the longest list of candidates in a federal by-election. [8]Ballot comprising 91 candidates. On July 19, Montreal city councillor Laura Palestini was selected by the Liberals as their candidate over others seeking the nomination [9] such as Eddy Kara, a political strategist, [10] Christopher Baenninger, Quebec Liberal candidate in Sainte-Marie ...
The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The election was the first to be held since a significant redistribution of electoral boundaries was finalised in 2023. The Legislative ...
The by-election was held on the same day as one in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun in Quebec. [ 3 ] With Liberal candidate Ian MacIntyre acquiring 4.83% of the vote, the election results marked the Liberal Party's worst election performance in Winnipeg , and is the first time in history that the Liberal Party received less than 5% of the vote in any ...
Trudeau had, by then, been in power for nine years following his 2015 election victory. He had headed off a caucus revolt in October 2024 over concerns about his unpopularity amid Canada's cost-of-living crisis and rising Conservative poll numbers. [10] Trudeau had been reduced to a minority government in both the