Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse – POLITICO
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The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.

Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.

Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.

Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.

  • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
    78·
    7 hours ago

    I find it really fucking hilarious he lost his own seat. The auction seems like it went well for canada. I wonder who the Liberals are going to form a coalition with

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 hours ago

      We’ll have to wait a few days for the official results as special votes haven’t been counted yet, they might end up being able to form an alliance with the Greens if they reach 171 seats. Otherwise NDP will be their option.

    • takeda@lemm.ee
      21·
      7 hours ago

      From yesterday’s reports it looked like they won majority, so technically they don’t need to form a coalition?

      Edit: looks like they don’t have majority and still need a coalition.

          • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
            241·
            6 hours ago

            In ordinary circumstances I agree but with an external threat I kind of wish it was a majority.

            At this point I hope they form government with NDP, and NDP agrees to not interfere with foreign policy at all but get concessions domestically, which is probably the best outcome of this election for Canada overall. Hopefully the number of seats that went Con off of vote splits for both NDP and Liberal actually causes voting reform to happen.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            86·
            6 hours ago

            Best for Canada, but typically fall apart after about a year. We’ll be at the polls again in 2026, and that’s really not enough time to teach the tiktok generation about caring for others and why hate is bad.

            • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10·
              5 hours ago

              Talking down to them and playing the generational differences card isn’t going to help at all. Plenty of old fucks, mid life fucks, and young fucks that need education in this not JUST the youngest of voters.

        • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
          5·
          6 hours ago

          There are a bunch of ridings that are still too close to call. The advanced and special ballots remaining have skewed heavily toward the liberals. They still may end up with a majority.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          17·
          6 hours ago

          So they’ll be starting with the Quebec nationalists (yuck) and greens (maybe yuck)? I’m not intimately familiar with the Canadian parties, but this doesn’t seem like a strong position for them.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            6 hours ago

            They don’t need to court the Quebec separatists or the one green seat if they can get agreement as they go from the new orange leader.

            For the record, the greens have a bad rep that is not 100% deserved: they have, many times in the past, fielded a “responsible resource management” plan that included managed forest and plausible plans for extraction and sale of other natural resources. Canada would be well-served with more green presence keeping the blues honest about oil well cleanup and pushing some solar panel plans forward. However, what we see on the news about the greens are a bunch of hippies snarling about drinking straws and logging (except in fairy Creek, natch, because someone got paid) and it scares any widespread support away.

            But if we allowed coalition governments instead of continued buy-in and support during the cons’ weekly no-confident motions, we’d see a merged party of both separatist groups, and that would be darkly funny until each refused to speak the other’s language.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
      11·
      7 hours ago

      No, not pantsed. Just embarrassed.

      They still massively increased their vote share, and the Liberals are still at the mercy of either the Bloc or the NDP for anything constructive.

      What we might see, hopefully, is an east-west splitting of the conservatives back into sane-east coast cons, who were largely shut out again this election, and leave the west to its Alberta based Reform party insanity.

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
    21·
    7 hours ago

    Tangentially, his riding has like 91 candidates to protest against the first past the post system, which is pretty funny too

      • maxsettings@lemmy.ca
        5·
        5 hours ago

        The polling staff were teaching people how to properly fold it so it would fit in the ballot boxes. They also had a sample ballot hanging on the wall and reminded everyone it was in “alphabetical order with the party name under each candidate” lol.