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🗳️ Election 2021: Latest updates

@JustinTrudeau didn’t get the Liberal majority he hoped for in Monday’s election, but with 158 seats leading or elected, the party is set to govern in a 44th Parliament that looks largely the same as the 43rd. #elxn44

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In coming days and weeks, Trudeau is likely to face questions from his caucus about whether the snap #elexn44 call was worth it, but Monday night he focused on what he called the “clear direction” from voters to stay on a progressive course.

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To form a majority, a party needs 170 or more MPs in the 338-member House of Commons.

As of Tuesday morning, the seat distribution was more or less the same as Aug. 15, when Parliament was dissolved. #elxn44vote

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The count likely won’t be final until Wednesday, when @ElectionsCan_E expects to finish tallying most mail-in ballots, but since most races were won by wide enough margins to be called Monday, the overall outcome – a Liberal minority – is assured.

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Meanwhile, Conservative Leader @erinotoole said he’s willing to lead the party in the next election.

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The NDP’s @theJagmeetSingh told voters “you can count on New Democrats to continue fighting for you.”

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Bloc Québécois Leader François Blanchet said he’d stay committed “to do more, to do better,” while the Greens’ Annamie Paul, who lost her bid for a seat, called for healing in a “more divided and more polarized” nation than the one before the election.

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