NDP stunned after dreams of governing shattered by Trudeau campaign train

Even still, the insiders says the scope of the loss is just starting to sink in as a few of the party’s brightest public lights have been extinguished and they face the prospect of a long, painful rebuilding process.

After a victory speech that included a description of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “duplicitous” politician dedicated to the politics of division, O’Regan was asked if his win was the result of a Liberal wave rather than his own campaign.

I’m filing this column the day before the vote, so I have no idea which of them won.

“Voting Conservative means this”.

“Hopefully that will come true as the Liberal Party begins to govern”.

“Today at the federal level, taxes are at their lowest level since John Diefenbaker was the prime minister, their lowest in over 50 years”, said Harper, before promising more tax cuts.

“This election was thought to be so close that every vote would count and they kept on hearing that and so they came out (to vote on the issues that matter to them)”.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took the lead in previously Conservative-held ridings including Whitby, Burlington, Markham and Ajax, where Immigration Minister Chris Alexander was defeated by Liberal Mark Holland, a former MP.

“The NDP will always be a real choice for Quebecers”, Mulcair said in French. “But so too do Quebecers need to be reminded that our country needs them to engage, too”.

The Leader of the Official Opposition, Thomas Mulcair, spent his time visiting the city that essentially created the NDP, Toronto, where the Liberals and the NDP have been fighting over several ridings within the GTA.

Mr. Harper was in the province 11 times during the campaign, while Mr. Trudeau made 13 visits and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair tried to shore up his ebbing support with 19 trips here. However, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe failed to gain a seat in Laurier-Sainte-Marie.

He referenced how his party’s campaign made history by being the one with the most women and the most indigenous candidates.

She insisted they were just collateral damage in the nation’s desire to get rid of the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. Her win was expected to be a harbinger of greater things.

Party members will hold a secret ballot vote at the convention to determine whether or not a leadership election should be called.

And then people started to pay attention. Plus, their votes mattered this election. The polls themselves included surveys conducted by eight different polling groups who all used a variety of methodologies.

After largely languishing on the sidelines of Quebec politics for roughly 10 years, the federal Liberal brand was rehabilitated Monday as the party picked up its highest number of seats in the province since the 1980s.

They show the Liberals leading or elected in 26 seats there so far compared to two for the Conservatives and one for the NDP.

Many watching the election results unfold before their eyes were either in a state of disbelief that the preemptive polls were actually accurate or that Trudeau and the Liberals were actually able to take down the Conservatives with a resounding majority. He beat out Conservative incumbent Jasbir Sandhu, who finished with 30.1 per cent of the vote.

Continuing our series of Monkey Cage Election Reports, we are pleased to present the following post-election report on the October Canadian federal election from political scientist Tyler Kustra, a PhD candidate at New York University.

The Liberal brand was hit hard in Quebec after three Jean Chretien-led Liberal governments preceded the infamous sponsorship scandal where tens of millions of taxdollars were misspent.