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Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse

www.politico.eu /article/pierre-poilievre-mark-carney-canada-election-conservative-liberal/

The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.

Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.

Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.

Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.

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I find it really fucking hilarious he lost his own seat. The auction seems like it went well for canada. I wonder who the Liberals are going to form a coalition with
- From yesterday's reports it looked like they won majority, so technically they don't need to form a coalition?
  Edit: looks like they don't have majority and still need a coalition.
  
  168 of 172 needed for a majority.
  They won, but it's a minority govt.
  https://globalnews.ca/news/11095128/canada-election-live-results-2025-vote/
  
  They do not need a coalition to form a minority government. They didn't have one last time either.
- We'll have to wait a few days for the official results as special votes haven't been counted yet, they might end up being able to form an alliance with the Greens if they reach 171 seats. Otherwise NDP will be their option.
- We’re doing Dutton here on Saturday.
  
  We'll be watching from Canada
- PP lost his seat, eh?
If only all cons would lose their seats the world would be a better place...
- [cries in Florida]
- Canada had the worst performance per capita in the entire OECD since the Liberals took over, beating only Luxembourg. Which now theres a doctor shortage, an extreme housing shortage, food bank usage is up dramatically; all after we took on a lot of debt that we now pay interest on. Can you say the cons would have been worse than all that?
  
  Yes.
  
  Think of all this but with institutionalized hatred towards LGBT ppl, anti-vaxx sentiment and dog whistles of facism. We know both parties are a different side of the same coin. Only one of those parties is embracing fascist rhetoric and populism.
  
  Absolutely... if it had been up to Harper (conservative PM for those who don't know), we would have crashed irreparably during the housing market crash of 2008... Not only was he advocating deregulation of banks for a full decade before the debacle (trying to mimic the USA as always) but even months before the collapse he was still drumming the "I see no problem here" just to pivot to "I have never been more worried about the state of the Canadian economy" in the span of 3 months... and this is the "Economist PM" the cons sold us
And the bastard is not even quitting. He said he’ll still be the PC’s leader.
- he is a weasel.... he gave his speech early to be able to make false claims of stopping the NDP from forming coalition with the Liberals (which they did not) and that he would stay as leader which is extremely unlikely without a seat... specially about all the badgering of Carney for being an "unelected PM"...
  PP, you are worse than unelected, the people you have worked for for the last 20 years do not want anything to do with you
  
  specially about all the badgering of Carney for being an "unelected PM"...
  I hope you’re right about this, but hypocrisy has never stopped conservatives before
  
  I was watching his speech live on CBC and the seat counts were on the bottom of the screen. I shit you not, maybe 10-30 seconds after he said this bit about denying the coalition, the seats flipped over so the coalition was possible. It went back quickly after and then back to coalition possible. I laughed very hard.
  I can't find a video where the reported polls are included like on the live broadcast though. It makes me sad because it was priceless. I believe the seats were 164/165 Liberal and 7 NDP.
  
  https://lemmy.ca/post/43108172
- Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable
God bless you Canada
There is simply no way they keep them on as leader of the party. That would be suicide. His strategy failed utterly and completely. The Liberals we're extremely unpopular and he should have won in a landslide and yet he fumbled terribly down the stretch. It should have been an easy needle to thread. Hell Ford did it, the fact that this idiot didn't understand that is all the reason why they shouldn't keep him on.
That was a seriously spectacular failure.
CANADA SAID IT DOESNT NEED A SMALL _pp
- We don't want Trump's little PP, thank you.
So much winning!
Hahaha, buh-bye

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