Canadian elections: Jagmeet Singh party appeared to be shrinking from 25 to 8 seats. The NDP leader himself could not defend his seat.
Liberals celebrate a stunning win in Canadian Elections & the populist Leader Jagmeet Singh loses his seat.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election on Monday (April 28, 2025), capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.
In a victory speech before supporters in Ottawa, Mr. Carney stressed the importance of Canadian unity in the face of the threats coming from Washington.
He also reiterated a belief he shared while campaigning: that the mutually beneficial system Canada and the U.S. had shared since World War II had ended. “We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” he said.
After polls closed, the Liberals were projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservative Party, though it wasn’t immediately clear if they would win an outright majority or would need to rely on one or more smaller parties to form a government and pass legislation.
The election comes months after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and rising immigration.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Canadian leader Mark Carney on his Liberal Party’s election victory and expressed hope for greater opportunities between the two countries. Carney’s Liberal Party won a historic victory in the Canadian election.
“Congratulations to @MarkJCarney on your election as Prime Minister of Canada and to the Liberal Party on their victory. India and Canada are bound by shared democratic values, a strong commitment to the rule of law, and vibrant people-to-people ties.
I look forward to working with you to strengthen our partnership and open up more opportunities for our people,” Modi wrote in a social media post.
Relations between India and Canada were at their most tense during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tenure. The stakes were high because of the threat posed by tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is now facing a cost-of-living crisis and Trump’s threat to impose broad tariffs on Canada, which sends more than 75% of its exports to the U.S.
Liberal leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney relied on his central banking experience to counter the threats, while Conservative leader Pierre Poiliver’s campaign focused on blaming the previous Liberal regime for Canada’s economic vulnerability to hostile U.S. trade policies.
Results from mail-in voting and ballots cast at special locations such as military bases and correctional institutions are also reported on the Elections Canada website and released to news media, but they can take longer to tabulate.
jagmeet Singh Dhaliwal, a 46-year-old NDP leader from Thikriwala village in Barnala district, has lost the election from his seat of Burnaby Central in BC. From the central seat, Wade Chang of the Liberal Party got 21,136 voted for the and Jamws Yan of the Conservative Party got 19,436 votes.
Dhaliwal could only get 9,104 votes and finished in third place. He had won the seat of Burnaby South, which is considered a stronghold of the New Democratic Party, in 2019 and 2021.
Not only this, he has also resigned as the leader of the NDP on moral grounds. The NDP, which won 25 seats in 2021, seems to be reduced to only 7 seats this time under his leadership.