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Should Poilievre win his expected majority in Parliament, he will have the run of the joint. Canadian Prime Ministers are famously—or infamously—powerful in such situations.
In that scenario, polls strongly suggest the right-of-center Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, would win a majority. Trudeau appears safe at least for about a couple of months.
Poilievre won the leadership election in a landslide, carrying 330 of 338 ridings with at least a plurality. The only other candidate to win a plurality in any ridings was Jean Charest , whose support mostly came from Quebec , though Poilievre still won 72 of the province's 78 ridings.
On June 4, Poilievre's campaign announced they sold 311,958 [122] out of the 678,708 total memberships during the leadership race. [123] Poilievre had been endorsed for the leadership by 62 Conservative MPs, more than half of the party's then 119-member caucus in the House of Commons.
The 2025 Canadian federal election will elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament.Under the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, the election would be held on October 20, 2025, but it may be called earlier if the governor general dissolves Parliament on the recommendation of the prime minister, either for a snap election or after the government loses a ...
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The only other candidate to win a plurality in any ridings was Jean Charest, whose support disproportionately came from Quebec, which had fewer voting Conservative Party members than Western Canada; this allowed Charest to get, in turn, a slightly higher percentage of points than votes, though not as extremely disproportionate as Belinda ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's Republicans were projected to pick up another U.S. Senate seat on Thursday and appeared to be retaining their narrow hold on the House of Representatives ...