Will they, or won’t they? A day after the election, the country was holding its breath to see if the Liberals would cross the magic number of 172 and win an outright majority. And by the end of Tuesday, the Liberals were projected to form a minority government with 169 seats – just shy of […]
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Terra Nova–The Peninsulas, Newfoundland and Labrador
Lead margin: 12 votes
Atlantic Canada might be where the polls close first in the country, but this Newfoundland riding kept its card to its chest until Tuesday afternoon when the media called it for Liberal candidate Anthony Germain.
With just a dozen vote lead, this is the closest race in the country this cycle.
Based on total valid votes of 41,073 and the margin, this riding is eligible for an automatic judicial recount.
Terrebonne, Quebec
Lead margin: 44 votes
This Montreal-area riding swung back and forth between the incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desjardins of the Bloc Québécois and the Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste.
Sinclair-Desjardins had a 28-vote lead until Tuesday after but when votes from the last polls were reported on Tuesday afternoon, that narrow lead of 35 votes went to Auguste.
But on Thursday, Elections Canada conducted a vote validation after the Bloc Québécois complained about errors during the vote count and Sinclair-Desjardins came back on top by 44 votes.
However, this is not a judicial recount. The total valid votes were 60,130, and with a vote difference between the top two candidates still below the 60-vote threshold an automatic judicial recount, Terrebonne remained eligible for one. In fact, Sinclair-Desjardins announced on a Facebook post that she was seeking a judicial recount.
