Liberals reach 174-seat majority with victory in Terrebonne
The Liberals won all three byelections held on Monday evening, including in the highly contested Quebec riding of Terrebonne.
One year after the closest federal race in Canadian history was decided by a single ballot and then subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court, voters in Terrebonne have returned a clearer verdict in Monday’s byelection.
The Liberal candidate, Tatiana Auguste, defeated the Bloc Québécois’ Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné on Monday night with 48.4% of the vote. Sinclair-Desgagné came close behind her Liberal opponent with 46.8% of the vote, while the Conservative candidate Adrienne Charles received only 3.4% and the NDP candidate received 0.5%.
The byelection was one of three held on Monday, where the Liberals secured a 174-seat majority government after also winning in Scarborough Southwest and University–Rosedale.
The byelection, which featured an unusually long ballot of nearly 50 candidates, saw the Liberals effectively settle the dispute that had left the Montreal-area seat vacant since February.
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