Canada election: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announces resignation with Liberals projected to win 4th term

Singh says he’ll measurement down arsenic enactment leader

An affectional Singh tells the country he’ll beryllium stepping down arsenic NDP person aft the enactment selects a replacement. It marks the extremity of an epoch for the party, which Singh has led for much than 7 years.

Singh thanked his wife, his 2 daughters, his in-laws and respective enactment faithful for their support.

“I couldn’t person done it without you,” Singh said.

He besides said helium congratulated Carney for his triumph contiguous and told the assemblage of NDP supporters that helium has mislaid his riding of Burnaby Central.

Singh besides expected to talk soon

People wrong NDP predetermination headquarters, including enactment staffers, person begun to stitchery astir the podium to perceive Singh speak.

His riding of Burnaby Central has not been called yet, but helium continues to way by thousands of votes to Liberal campaigner Wade Chang.

Blanchet is expected to greet supporters astatine Le National theatre successful Montreal successful a fewer minutes.

The Bloc Québécois person is projected to beryllium re-elected successful the riding of Beloeil-Chambly.

He’ll caput onstage aboriginal tonight, but what clip he’ll commencement his code isn’t clear.

Bloc supporters are clinging to the imaginable of Liberals forming a number authorities truthful the enactment tin clasp the equilibrium of power.

Vote splitting proving costly for NDP

It appears the New Democrats' fears whitethorn beryllium playing retired connected predetermination nighttime with galore of their incumbent seats astatine superior hazard — including Jagmeet Singh's.

One happening we heard connected the run way from the enactment and supporters was that immoderate Canadians who would person voted NDP were frightened of Trump and the thought of a Poilievre government, truthful they were choosing Carney's Liberals.

NDP incumbent Heather McPherson, projected to triumph Edmonton Strathcona, echoed that sentiment. “New Democrats bash amended erstwhile radical are voting retired of a consciousness of anticipation and optimism,” she told my workfellow Sam Samson.

The results look to beryllium a worst lawsuit script for the New Democrats: ballot splitting that has them losing immoderate of their ridings to the Liberals, others to the Conservatives.

The NDP intelligibly saw this arsenic a imaginable risk. About a week agone successful BC the enactment started printing and handing retired signs that said, "BC votes NDP to halt Conservatives" to effort to hammer location the message.

'There's part retired there,' says David Lametti

With choky races successful Ontario and the imaginable for the Liberals to suffer arsenic galore arsenic 10 seats successful the province, David Lametti, a erstwhile furniture curate and longtime person of Carney's, acknowledged "there's part retired there."

Speaking to my workfellow Ashley Burke from the Liberal Party office successful Ottawa, Lametti declined to accidental whether helium believed Carney's authorities could beryllium a number successful Parliament, contempt earlier polling successful the run suggesting it could beryllium a majority.

"Let's spot what happens. There are a batch of choky races near successful Ontario and B.C.," Lametti said. "We request to enactment arsenic a authorities and Prime Minister Carney's going to person to enactment … to beryllium a rassembleur, to bring radical together."

Lametti said the authorities volition besides person to enactment amid "a batch of misinformation" circulating online.

Conservatives creep into ‘Liberal fortress’ astir Toronto

I’m a newsman with CBC Toronto.

Right now, I’m keeping an oculus connected Conservatives creeping into what has traditionally been the Liberal fortress of Toronto.

Conservative Roman Baber is starring successful York Centre, wherever Liberal furniture curate Ya’ara Saks was the incumbent.

Not galore radical wanted to speech to maine astatine Saks’s enactment office tonight.

Volunteer Leonardo Lacroix was moving arsenic a scrutineer this evening and told maine the riding was “divided.” Although Saks whitethorn lose, helium sees a imaginable number authorities arsenic a win.

“If you look astatine what the Liberal Party was similar 3 months ago, it was a mess. We would person ne'er imagined this was the effect we were going to have.”

'I did not person a crystal ball,' says Freeland

Freeland, whose resignation successful December prompted Trudeau to measurement down arsenic premier minister, portion of the reversal of her party's fortunes, is projected to triumph her University-Rosedale seat.

"I did not person a crystal shot connected that morning" of her resignation Dec. 16, Freeland told Rosemary Barton. "But I knew we were headed successful the incorrect absorption and I had to bash thing astir it."

Freeland said she's "delighted" by the Liberals' occurrence successful this election.

"People had wholly written america disconnected and close present you are talking astir what the spot of our authorities volition be," she said with supporters waving enactment pamphlets down her.

Freeland gave Carney "kudos" and said she believes helium is "totally up to the job." She called Carney a singular campaigner amid a "palpable question of patriotism" that helium volition present person to harness to unite the state — which she said she's assured helium tin do.

May projected to triumph seat

CBC’s Decision Desk is projecting that Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May volition proceed to correspond B.C.’s Saanich-Gulf Islands successful the House of Commons.

In her triumph speech, May says she spoke to Carney who congratulated her for winning her riding.

Just a abbreviated portion ago, it was projected that her co-Leader Jonathan Pedneault would suffer his contention successful Montreal’s Outremont riding.

May says co-leader Jonathan Pedneault’s chances were wounded aft helium wasn’t capable to execute successful the leader’s debates successful Quebec. She besides criticized the media for promoting a two-party contention and saying she could suffer her riding.

May was archetypal elected to parliament successful 2011, and served arsenic Green Party person from 2008 to 2019 earlier returning to the relation successful 2022.

Ferreri projected to suffer her seat

Conservative incumbent Michelle Ferreri is projected to suffer successful the Ontario riding of Peterborough. The CBC Decision Desk projects Liberal Emma Harrison volition beryllium heading to Ottawa arsenic the riding’s MP.

Ferrari was a vocal authorities professional connected societal media and drew beardown reactions from crossed the governmental spectrum.

Former furniture curate Sean Fraser projected to triumph seat

Liberal MP and erstwhile furniture curate Sean Fraser is projected to triumph his spot successful Nova Scotia’s Central Nova — the 4th clip he's won the riding.

CBC’s Decision Desk is projecting that the Liberal incumbent has edged retired Conservative campaigner Brycen Jenkins successful a nail-biter race.

Poilievre campaigned successful the country conscionable a fewer days ago, praising Jenkins and slamming Fraser’s grounds arsenic a subordinate of erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.

Fraser was migration curate from 2021-23, and lodging curate until December, astatine which constituent helium announced helium wouldn’t question re-election aft winning his riding 3 times.

But helium reversed that determination a fewer months aboriginal erstwhile Carney, recently minted arsenic Liberal leader, called him to reconsider.