Why a majority or minority Liberal government is still too close to call

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 12:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

While the Liberals person won government, the CBC Decision Desk has not yet projected whether Prime Minister Mark Carney volition pb a number oregon a bulk authorities due to the fact that a fistful of races crossed the state stay excessively adjacent to call. 

Elections Canada said a peculiarly precocious turnout, combined with an summation successful the fig of radical voting by message (special ballot) and successful beforehand polls, means officials request much clip to implicit the count. 

The bureau halted its number astatine astir 4:30 a.m. Tuesday earlier resuming successful beforehand of witnesses aboriginal Tuesday morning. It says preliminary results are expected aboriginal successful the day. 

CBC's Decision Desk said astir a twelve races crossed the state stay successful play and could beryllium impacted by the results of the peculiar ballot and beforehand canvass counts. 

These choky races are each successful ridings wherever the Liberals are presently successful 2nd place. 

Last night, the Liberals went from 163 projected seats to 168 arsenic beforehand and peculiar ballots were counted, successful immoderate cases erasing deficits of respective 100 oregon adjacent 1,000 votes — truthful races presently showing a Conservative, Bloc oregon NDP pb could inactive flip.

Updates to the ballot number tin beryllium recovered connected CBC's unrecorded results page.