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    Canada's 45th federal election in pictures

    Author: Editors Desk Source: CBC News:
    April 29, 2025 at 06:59

    Liberal Party under Mark Carney will form next government: CBC News projects

    Man standing at podium smiling surrounded by others on a stage, and a crowd in the audience.
    Mark Carney delivers a victory speech at TD Place arena in Ottawa early Tuesday after CBC News projects the Liberals will lead the country. But it’s too close to say whether it will be a minority or majority government. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    Pointing a finger, a man speaks at a podium, with smiling people standing behind him on stage.
    Carney's Liberals are projected to win 168 seats; the Conservatives with 144 seats; the Bloc Québécois with 23 seats; the NDP with seven seats and the Green Party with one seat. A party needs to win 172 seats to form a majority government. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    Two women raising their hands and smiling on election night, with Liberal logo high above them.
    Canadians have cast their ballots in a pivotal federal election, and CBC News has projected a Liberal government will lead the country through a trade battle with the U.S. Here, supporters Noah Alexander, left, and Anna Price react at Carney's election night headquarters after CBC News's projection. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    Four people smiling standing below a large Liberal logo, on election night.
    Supporters react to CBC News's projection of a Liberal government at Carney headquarters, at the TD Place arena in Ottawa. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    A supporter of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre gestures thumbs down, while sitting seats, surrounded by others.
    A supporter of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gestures to early election results at his election night headquarters at Rogers Centre in Ottawa. (Shannon VanRaes/Reuters)

     

     

    Wearing a T-shirt that reads Canada First, an emotional woman wipes her eye and stands while other people sit in rows of seats.
    A supporter reacts as results are displayed at the Conservative election night watch party in Ottawa. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

     

     

    Two women, including one wiping her face, sit at Conservative Party's election night HQ.
    Other supporters of Poilievre react after media project that the Liberal Party have retained power. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)

     

     

    A couple waving to a crowd.
    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre waves to his supporters with his wife, Anaida, at his election night headquarters in Ottawa. Poilievre will not win an eighth consecutive term in his Carleton riding, CBC News projects. He is trailing Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in what has been a disappointing night for him and his party. (Amber Bracken/Reuters)

     

     

     

    A woman standing behind a man at a podium. Her eyes well up with tears.
    NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters accompanied by his wife, Gurkiran Kaur, at his campaign headquarters on election night in Burnaby, B.C. Singh says he will step down as the leader as soon as a new interim leader is chosen. He conceded defeat in his riding of Burnaby Central; the NDP is at risk of losing official party status. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

     

     

     

    Emotional, a woman closes her eyes while listening to a speech with others beside her.
    Supporters watch the federal election results from the NDP election night headquarters. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

     

     

     

    With her hands in the air, a smiling woman at a podium as a crowd applauds her.
    Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May thanks all who supported her and her campaign after seeing that she has been re-elected on election night at the Church & State Wines in Brentwood Bay, B.C. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press)

     

     

     

    Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and two others watch the election coverage on TV in his hotel room.
    Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet watches the election coverage on TV at his hotel in Montreal. CBC News projects that he will hold onto his seat in Quebec’s Beloeil-Chambly riding. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)

     

     

    Two people wearing blue cowboy hats smiling and shaking hands.
    Supporters Robert Bélanger, left, and Kevin Asselin are pictured at Théâtre Le National in Montreal, the election night headquarters of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet. ( Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)

     

     

     

    Supporters hold flags in support of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet.
    Supporters hold flags in support of Blanchet at Théâtre Le National in Montreal. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)

     

     

    Jagmeet Singh sits with his wife, their two daughters and his parents. They're facing a flat screen TV on a wall.
    NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sits with his wife, Gurkiran Kaur, their daughters Dani Kaur, front left, and Anhad Kaur and his parents Jagtaran Singh, back second right, and Harmeet Kaur, back right, in a hotel room while watching election results on TV, in Burnaby, B.C. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

     

     

     

    Wearing a cap that reads Canada is Not For Sale and a T-shirt that reads Make America Go Away, a person sits waiting for results at the NDP election night headquarters.
    Supporters watch the federal election results from the NDP election night headquarters in Burnaby, B.C. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

     

     

     

    Smiling, a tall man in a suit stands among supporters.
    Green Party co-Leader Jonathan Pedneault arrives to speak to supporters on federal election night in Montreal. The Canadian Press projects that Pedneault has been defeated in the Montreal riding of Outremont. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)

     

     

     

    People walking towards an entrance of a church where voting is taking place on a clear, sunny day.
    Earlier on Monday, voters arrive to cast ballots in Ottawa’s Carleton riding. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    A man inserting a ballot into an Elections Canada voting box, flanked by a woman and a man holding a yellow folder.
    Carney casts his vote in the riding of Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester where he and his wife, Diana Fox Carney, reside. CBC News projects Carney wins in Ontario’s Nepean riding, securing his first-ever seat in the House of Commons. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

     

     

     

    People coming out of the main entrance to a church hall with the name above the entrance that reads: St. Bartholomew's Church Hall 125 Mackay Street.
    Carney and Fox Carney leave the polling station after voting. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

     

     

    A couple standing at the ballot box and smiling for the cameras which aren't in the frame.
    Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, cast their votes at Parkway Road Pentecostal Church in Greely, Ont. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images)

     

     

     

    Wearing a suit, a man in eyeglasses bends over a table where an election worker helps check over his voter card at a polling station.
    Blanchet checks in as he arrives to vote at a polling place in Chambly, Que. (Graham Hughes/AFP/Getty Images)

     

     

     

    A Sikh man holding a sign that reads: Bonita Zarrillo, with supporters waving NDP signs behind him and others on the sides making stills or recording video.
    Singh, who voted during the advance polls on Good Friday, attends a sign waving campaign event with NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo and volunteers on election day in Port Moody, B.C. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

     

     

     

    People wait to cast their votes at a polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
    People wait to cast their votes at a polling station at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images)

     

     

     

    A fire truck in front of a recreation centre near an election sign that reads: Elections Canada Vote.
    Voters in Windsor, Ont., had to be redirected to a new location to cast their ballots after a fire closed down a recreation centre that was serving as a federal election polling station, Elections Canada said. (Katerina Georgieva/CBC)

     

     

     

    Two people seen through a blue metal fence with a yellow sign that has an arrow and reads: Vote.
    A sign directs voters to a polling station to cast their ballots in the federal election in Calgary. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

     

     

    People line up outside a polling station that's under a highway to vote.
    People line up outside a polling station in Toronto. (Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters)

     

     

    A lineup of voters forms outside a polling station on a clear sunny day.
    Voters line up to cast their ballot at another polling station in Toronto. (Wa Lone/Reuters)

     

     

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    Voters arrive at a polling station in Halifax to cast their ballots. (Craig Paisley/CBC)

     

     

    People sitting at long tables, counting ballots.
    Election workers count special ballots, which are cast by Canadians living outside their ridings, at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre in Ottawa on Monday. (Olivier Hyland/CBC)

     

     

    People around a table with voting material including signs that read: Elections Canada Vote.
    Election workers set up a polling station in Winnipeg on election day. (Meaghan Ketcheson/CBC)

     

     

    A man and woman walking on a sidewalk near a brick building with an election sign that reads: Elections Canada Vote.
    Voters make their way to a polling station in Saskatoon. (Liam Richards/The Canadian Press)

     

     

    A person carrying an umbrella and a cane, walking outside a polling station on a rainy day.
    A person walks outside a polling station in the Vancouver East riding on election day. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press)

     

     

    Election workers sitting at long tables next to a ballot box that reads Elections Canada #60 inside a polling station
    Election workers are pictured at the Mandeville polling station in Lanaudière, Que. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
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