Canadian federal election, 2017
After the budget negotiations collapse, Justin Trudeau leads his party into the 2017 campaign in a position of strength. Neither leader of the CPC or NDP have been in leadership longer than eight months and the NDP is broadly blamed in polls for the collapse of budget negotiations. In leadership debates, Tory leader John Baird does not perform particularly well in the leadership debate despite being regarded as a good debater, and Trudeau runs a sunny, positive campaign portraying the other parties as being politically petty. Though his strategy is roundly criticized as hypocritical after a nineteen-month old government that has accomplished little of note, Trudeau's Liberals never once lag in the polls.
Seat results:
Liberals: 174
Conservatives: 108
NDP: 51
Greens: 5
The Bloc Quebecois vanishes completely from Parliament after 24 years of having seated at least one MP. The NDP continues its post-2011 decline, losing sixteen seats. The Tories hold their own despite a net loss of seats, regaining some territory in rural Ontario and Manitoba while losing more ground in the Toronto and Vancouver suburbs as the Liberals take a bite out of NDP seats in Quebec and BC once again. Trudeau now controls a Liberal majority, which swiftly passes the budget and is safe until October of 2021.
Who is leader of the NDP?
