2015 Canadian Federal Election
Canada held its regularly scheduled parliamentary election on October 19, 2015. All 338 seats in the House of Commons were up for election, and a party needed at least 170 seats to secure a majority government.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, led his party to victory by flipping 150 seats they'd lost in the previous election—the single-largest seat increase in Canadian history. Riding a wave of discontent with the incumbent Conservative government, the Liberals posted gains in almost every province except Saskatchewan, including a clean sweep of Atlantic Canada and the territories.
Incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party lost 67 seats compared to 2011, after which Harper resigned leadership of his party. The New Democratic Party lost more than half of its 103 seats, reduced to 44 members and relegated back to third place in the House. The Bloc Québécois is the only other party that won seats, reclaiming six ridings in Quebec. Green Party leader Elizabeth May held her B.C. riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands to remain the party's sole member of parliament.
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