Canada's Liberal Party wins election victory after Mark Carney's fortune | Canada

Canada's Liberal Party won its fourth term, earning the party a miraculous political resurrection and marks a landmark victory for former central banker and political novice Mark Carney, who is preparing to confront U.S. President Donald Trump.

Late Monday, liberals won or led enough seats to prevent any other party from forming the government, according to the state broadcaster CBC. With the results of the votes in Canada's Atlantic, Quebec and Ontario, the Liberal Party's election night gatherings cheered.

It is unclear whether the Liberals will provide enough seats for the majority of governments. A minority government will mean that Carney’s party will need support from political opponents to rule. After a narrow victory in the last federal election, the Liberals rely on the left-wing New Democrats to help it pass legislation.

For liberals, victory marks an excellent recovery for a party, until recently towards an electoral pathway. Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau served as prime minister for nearly a decade, but his leadership in Twilight is marked by rebellion, painful disputes and repeated threats from converged voters.

Until the end of 2024, internal discussions within the Liberal Party were grim: in their most optimistic situation, they could only hope to grant conservatives to a minority government. Complete victory is everywhere.

"We have died and buried. Now we will form the government," former Liberal Attorney General David Lametti told CTV late Monday. "Thanks to Mark, we have turned this around."

Carney’s ability to win reflects the reality of how public sentiment changes. With Canada's economic future seemingly in the hands of an unpredictable and hostile U.S. president, Trump threatened to annex the country to make it the 51st country, and his threat to Trudeau's "governor" and economic coercion have contributed to anger and betrayal against Canada's southern neighbors.

“There is absolutely no precedent for the turnaround in the polls,” said David Coletto, head of the voting company Abacus. “But, it’s never been possible to see the subsequent honeymoon — and the way it supports it, too. I can’t see this complete full reset like other jurisdictions around the world, where we see this complete and complete reset. This touches on two factors: how unpopular Justin Trudeau is, and the threat and what Gamechanger Donald Trump means for Canada.”

For conservatives, Carney’s liberal losses are the devastating end of the election that the party has called for for months. In the past two years, under the leadership of Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party appears to have constituted the government.

But within weeks when Trump threatened and Carney became the neoliberal leader, their party's 25-point lead evaporated. Get a few inches from the victory and then lose the body that will likely bring a somber body to the party and have an internal dispute over the future of the conservative movement.

Carney, who was only prime minister before the quick election, was a gambit he wanted to make history for the party. But Carney's prospects are also for a completely different reason to make history: If he loses, he will inherit Canada's shortest serving prime minister's cloak.

“I saw Carney’s behavior and I think he’s really a guy who meets the moment,” said campaign volunteer Ian Laroque, who lives in Carney’s Ottawa election district. "He's not a polished politician. But he's the kind of person we need to lead this country now: during the economic crisis, it's not that you have economists every day."

The vote on Monday was also unusual in other ways: for the first time in nearly 70 years, the two major parties will vote more than 80% between reflecting the collapse of other smaller opposition parties, including the left-wing New Democrats and the separatist Québécois.