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đź”´LIVE NOW: Canada's first voting polls have officially closed in Newfoundland

Follow for live analysis and insight from our Star national reporters and columnists on election night.

#Elxn44
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LIVE: Election results should start rolling in soon.

Polls have closed in Newfoundland, polls in Atlantic Canada will close in about 10 minutes, and polls in Ontario close at 9:30 p.m.

#Elxn44
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LIVE: Returning officers are allowed to begin counting advance poll ballots one hour before polls close Monday.

Mail-in ballots sent from within one’s riding will not be counted until the next day, and may take up to two days to count.

#Elxn44
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LIVE: Star federal politics reporter @aballinga is in Vancouver reporting on the NDP. Due to the pandemic, only select party staff and journalists are invited into the downtown convention centre, he writes. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
LIVE: Polls have closed in all Atlantic provinces, and results are trickling in. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
Toronto police attended a school in East York earlier today after a “dispute” broke out at a polling station, @JoannaLavoie reports. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
LIVE: National politics reporter @R_SPatel writes in from Liberal HQ in Montreal.

"We might hear another victory speech tonight in this room, or a concession speech, if we're lucky enough to find out the outcome of the election this evening." #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: Liberals claim two seats, leading in 20 other ridings; Conservatives leading in 8 ridings; NDP leading in 1 #Elxn44
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#LIVE: Dominic LeBlanc has been declared easily re-elected in New Brunswick. This is not a surprise, columnist @SusanDelacourt writes. LeBlanc, an old childhood friend of Trudeau's, won his seat in 2019 from a hospital bed in Montreal. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: Final voting results across Canada may not be known until Wednesday, Star digital lead @Taniaatthestar notes, as almost one million mail-in ballots will not be opened until Tuesday. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: Liberals claim seven seats, leading in 17 other ridings; Conservatives claim three ridings, leading in five others #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: NDP National Director Anne McGrath told @aballinga the NDP expects close three-way races in B.C., where the party hopes to pick up seats.
#Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: The NDP's McGrath said her definition of success in this election is if the NDP can add even one seat to the 24 it held in the last parliament. That would be the first election since the 2011 "orange wave" that the NDP did not lose seats. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: The Liberals are leading or elected in 25 ridings, Conservatives are leading or elected in 8, and the Bloc Quebecois is leading or elected in 1.

Have questions? Email us at social@torstar.ca, and we'll bring you answers. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: It looks like the Greens are on pace to lose in Fredericton, where they were trying to unseat the MP who defected from their party to the Liberals amidst intense Green infighting earlier this year, @aballinga notes. #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#BREAKING: Conservative candidate Rick Perkins defeats Liberal fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan.

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#LIVE: Polls in Ontario have closed, but those in line before 9:30 p.m. will be allowed to cast their ballots.

#Elxn44
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#LIVE: With polls closed in more than 260 ridings across Canada, @SusanDelacourt writes that it's "going to get a little crazy for the next hour or so." #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
#LIVE: Polls in British Columbia have closed. Those in line, however, can continue waiting to cast their ballot.

#Elxn44
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#BREAKING: PPC leader Maxime Bernier loses Beauce riding #Elxn44
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#BREAKING: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau wins Papineau riding #Elxn44 thestar.com/politics/feder…
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has been re-elected in the Ontario riding of Durham.

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#Breaking: Justin Trudeau's Liberals will form a minority government. The party had 155 seats in parliament at dissolution. The number of seats they will win this year is to be determined.

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The Conservative party appeared on track Monday night to surpass its showing in the 2019 election but whether that will be good enough for a party that had hoped to topple the Liberals outright remained unclear.

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Former Green Party leader Elizabeth May has been elected in Saanich-Gulf Islands, the Canadian Press is reporting.

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.@aballinga: The NDP came into this campaign full of confidence and hope that they would turn Jagmeet Singh's likeability into significant gains. Right now, they're leading in 27 ridings across the country. At the start of the campaign they had 24 seats.
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Annamie Paul, the first Black woman to lead a major political party in Canada, lost badly Monday night as she fought for both her leadership and a federal seat following a cloistered campaign dominated by internal Green party strife.

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#Breaking: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has been re-elected in Burnaby South. thestar.com/politics/feder…
On O'Toole's concession speech, @alexboutilier: This speech sounds almost completely aimed at making the case why O’Toole should remain Conservative leader after tonight’s results. thestar.com/politics/feder…
NDP Leader @theJagmeetSingh and his wife
@gurkirankaur_ arrive at the convention centre. Singh congratulates @JustinTrudeau and says people can count on “New Democrats to fight for you.”
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Liberal Leader @JustinTrudeau speaks at the convention centre. Trudeau thanked the leaders of the other parties and Canadian voters: "There is no greater honour than serving you and serving this country." thestar.com/politics/feder…

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