The new riding of Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt will have a new face as its Member of Parliament.
Conservative Jim Belanger unofficially won the seat last night.
Belanger took the lead in the polls early and stayed there for the evening.
The Liberal Marc Serre finished second.
For the riding of Sault Ste. Marie – Algoma, Liberal Terry Sheehan is the unofficial winner.
Sheehan also led the riding for most of the evening, but it was a tight race, with Hugh Stevenson of the Conservative party right on his heels all night long.
Sudbury is also Liberal with Vivian Lapointe taking the new riding there, and the Kapuskasing/Timmins riding also went blue with Conservative Gatien Malette taking over the reins.
Nationally, the unofficial number from Elections Canada shows that the Liberals have 168 seats.
172 were needed for a majority government.
The Conservatives have 144 seats, and most of the gains for either the red or blue were at the cost of the Bloc Québécois, down to only 23 seats, the NDP with only seven seats in the House, and the Greens with one.
Jagmeet Singh said he was stepping down as NDP leader on Monday night after suffering a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat and seeing his party reduced to what would likely be a single-digit seat count.
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is also projected to have lost his seat in the House of Commons.
The report of Poilievre’s defeat in an Ottawa-area riding (constituency) came after his party was defeated nationwide by Mark Carney’s Liberal Party.
The Conservatives are set to remain in opposition as the second-largest party.
Like the Liberals, they saw a significant rise in their share of the national vote compared to four years ago, despite Poilievre’s projected result being a personal blow.
As of press time, Poilievre has made no comment in regards to the loss of his seat.
