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Trudeau has served as prime minister since November 5, 2015, having won three general elections. A liberal, Trudeau was successful in his first general election as leader of the Liberal Party, which he defeated then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in the general election of 2015 and formed a majority
However, Clark's minority government was defeated late in 1979, triggering another election in early 1980, which Trudeau won. [4] Trudeau stood for election to the House of Commons six times (in 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980), each time from the riding of Mount Royal, in Montreal, Quebec. He was elected with substantial majorities each ...
Trudeau and Winters won additional support on the final ballot, while Turner, despite having no hope of victory, won almost two hundred votes. Turner's delegates would later form the "195 Club," which would become fundamental in his 1984 run. Trudeau placed 249 votes ahead of Winters on this last ballot with 51% of the vote.
This was the first Canadian federal election to hold a leaders debate, on June 9, 1968. The debate included Trudeau, Stanfield, Douglas, and in the latter part Réal Caouette , with Caouette speaking French and Trudeau alternating between the languages.
Trudeau is the most recent prime minister to win four elections ... Trudeau's first serious test as Prime Minister came during the October Crisis of 1970, ...
But by 1984, more than 15 years after first becoming prime minister, the elder Trudeau - like his son now - faced dire polls. It seemed clear he would not win the next election if he stayed on.
Trudeau has been forced out by members of his own party, not because he lost an election (the American equivalent would be the unseating of then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in 2023).
Trump, during his first term as president, once called Trudeau “weak” and “dishonest,” but it was the prime minister who was the first G7 leader to visit Trump since the Nov. 5 election.