Ballot recounts taking place in 4 tightly contested federal ridings

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 6:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Ballots volition beryllium recounted successful 4 ridings owed to the results from past week's predetermination being highly adjacent betwixt the apical candidates.

According to Canada's predetermination rules, a recount is automatically triggered erstwhile a campaigner wins by little than 0.1 per cent of the wide ballot successful that riding. In definite circumstances, candidates tin besides petition a recount.

Three of the 4 ridings were adjacent capable to trigger an automatic recount, portion a petition was granted successful another.

All recounts are overseen by a judge, and a prime fewer are allowed to witnesser the proceedings. They see the returning officer, the candidates, the recount teams — each consisting of a handler, a recorder and 1 typical appointed by each campaigner — ineligible counsel for each candidate, ineligible counsel for the main electoral serviceman and 2 representatives per campaigner who are not members of the recount team.

Elections Canada announced earlier this week that the Quebec riding of Terrebonne — wherever the Bloc Québécois campaigner bushed the Liberal by 44 votes — would automatically acquisition a recount.

Terrebonne had primitively been called for the Liberals the time aft the votes were cast. But the riding flipped to the Bloc during the validation process — which is antithetic from a recount. Validation is simply a process successful which Elections Canada double-checks and verifies the numbers reported connected predetermination night.

Elections Canada announced Friday that a recount volition besides instrumentality spot successful Milton East-Halton Hills South, wherever the Liberal campaigner edged the Conservative by 29 votes.

WATCH | Here's however the automatic recount volition enactment for Terra Nova-The Peninsulas: 

The riding was initially declared for the Conservatives, but similar Terrebonne the riding was flipped aft the validation process.

A recount is besides taking spot successful the N.L. riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas, wherever the Liberal campaigner won by 12 votes. 

On Friday, a justice ordered a recount successful different Ontario riding — Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore, wherever the Conservative won by 77 votes.

The Liberal campaigner had requested that recount, citing much than a twelve affidavits from scrutineers for his run who had witnessed ballots beryllium rejected that they accidental were valid.

The Liberals fell conscionable 3 seats abbreviated of the 172 required of a bulk government. Even if the recounts each crook retired Liberal victories, the enactment volition inactive beryllium 1 short.

The recounts successful Terra Nova-The Peninsulas and Milton East-Halton Hills South volition statesman adjacent week. Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore's recount volition commencement connected May 20.

The recount successful Terrebonne began Thursday. CBC News has asked Elections Canada for clarification whether that recount is ongoing.