Public broadcasters say liberals will be out of the majority after winning the Trump threat-led election race.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party will form a minority government, and public broadcaster CBC is predicting a campaign that will be dominated by concerns over US President Donald Trump's threat to Canada.
The CBC said Tuesday afternoon that the Liberals won enough 343 seats in the House of Commons to form the government but would lower the threshold of 172 seats required for most seats.
According to the latest forecast from the vote on Monday, the Liberals won 169 seats, while the main opposition Conservatives had 144 seats.
The Liberals' victory put them in a fourth straight order at the party lags to the Conservatives by as much as 25% in January.
But Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, coupled with repeated threats from Republican leaders, has brought Canada into the "51st state" of the United States, which has allowed Canadian voters to join many Canadian voters behind Carney and the liberals.
Carney’s former former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned and has received months of widespread criticism for dealing with the housing crisis and other affordability issues, which has also helped the party’s support.
Al Jazeera's John Hendren told Canadian capital Ottawa on Tuesday that many voters had said they "want to make sure they are choosing a leader who can fight Trump, a major threat to the country."
"Canadians look at the election and they see an existential crisis - the crisis is that 80% of exports to the United States, their largest trading partner, and these tariffs make it difficult to do business," Hendren said.
He added that Carney’s priority now is to deal with the Trump administration’s tariffs.
"And if he can't do that in a very short time, his honeymoon may be short," Hendren said.
Carney said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that he had spoken with Trump and the U.S. president congratulated him on his liberal victory.
"The leaders agree with the importance of Canada and the United States working together as independent sovereign states. To this end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future," said Carney's office statement.
In the case of a minority government, the Liberal Party will need the support of the opposition to pass legislation and distrust in parliament.
The left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) could not support the Trudeau administration until the second half of last year and seemed ready to play this role.
According to CBC, NDP is expected to win seven seats in Monday's elections - enough to push liberals beyond the 172 thresholds required for the House of Commons.
In his victory speech after the vote on Monday, Carney urged Canadians to face Trump's threat.
"The United States wants our land, our resources, our water, our country," he said. "President Trump is trying to break us so that America can have us; that will never... never happen."
Meanwhile, opposition conservative head Pierre Poilievre congratulated Carney on his victory and said his party “will do our best to put the government in charge”.
Poilievre is expected to be Canada's next prime minister before Trump's threat and the reorganization of Liberal leaders overturned the game.