2025 Election Thread

[robkelk]

The Terrebonne riding (in Quebec) will be having a recount. By federal law, any election decided by a margin that's less than 100votes must go through a recount, and according to the first count, that riding was decided by 35 votes.

The recount has given the riding to the Bloc Quebcois instead of the Liberals, by 44 votes.

This is why Canada does recounts in situations like these.

I was mistaken. First, the recount was triggered by a margin of less than 0.1% of the votes cast. Second, that was a vote verification, not a recount.

The recount has been completed by Superior Court of Quebec Justice Danielle Turcotte.

23,352 votes for the Liberal candidate.
23,351 votes for the Bloc Quebecois candidate.

So it's back to the Liberals... by one vote. And this result is official.

Every vote matters.

Three more votes are going to recount. "The recounts in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas and Milton East-Halton Hills South will begin next week. Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore's recount will start on May 20." If they all go Liberal, then the Liberals will be exactly one person short of a majority in the House. Oh, look, the Green Party has one person in the House...

This is not going away.

One mail-in ballot was not counted because the self-addressed envelope provided by Elections Canada had the wrong address on it.

Rather, one that we know of.

Of course,it was for the Bloc Quebecois candidate.

If this was the only misaddressed mail-in ballot, then the vote is a tie.