Voters on the east coast of Canada provided constant approval as offices to outgoing liberals on Monday, while the party retained its dominant position in the region.
With 98% of the surveys in Atlantic Canada reports, the Liberals were elected or directed in 25 of the 32 constituencies, and the Conservatives were seven. The new Democrats were not in the running, capturing less than five of the popular vote. If these results hold when the final ballots are counted, the Liberals will meet with one more seat in the region they won in the elections in 2021.
The party has dominated the region for almost 10 years, although its grip has destroyed slightly since Justin Trudeau was elected for the first time in 2015, when the Liberals won the 32 seats.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, the Tories won two seats, one of which was removed from the Liberals.
The long-range mountains that roll in the west of Newfoundland have been held by the former liberal minister of the cabinet Gudie Hutchings since 2015, but she resigned in January. Conservative Carol Anstey, a real estate agent, beat the replacement of Hutchings, the Liberal Don Bradshaw, a former television journalist. In addition, Clifford Small, a conservative holder, held the redesigned driving of the Center of Newfoundland.
In the east of Newfoundland on Terra Nova – Peninsulas, which the Liberals had since 2015, the conservative candidate was ahead of most of the night. But the conservative manager evaporated late at night, leaving the race too close to call with a survey to postpone.
In St. John’s East, Liberal holder Joanne Thompson, the Minister of Fisheries, held driving comfortably. But she said that the sharp increase in supporters to the conservatives of rural Newfoundland was something that her party has to discuss. “We have to go out in communities and really understand what people feel and where they feel disconnected,” said Thompson.
As expected, the Liberals occupied the four seats on Prince Edward Island.
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The conservatives – directed by Pierre Hairyvre – had to keep some, if not all their seats in the region, while the new Democrats under Jagmeet Singh hoped for a surprise breakthrough in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia, but their support simply collapsed.
Political observers had declared that the aggressive and populist leaders’ style of Hairy was a difficult sale in the Atlantic, where traditional progressives – including the Prime Minister of Nova Scotia, Tim Houston – largely avoided the chief of the Federal Tory. However, the conservative campaign message, highlighted by the repeated references from Hairy to a “lost liberal decade”, seemed to resonate in certain parts of the region.
In Nova Scotia, the center of Nova, a liberal holder who was almost a non-presentation reached victory after following most of the night. The former minister of the cabinet, Sean Fraser, had decided not to appear in December, but changed his mind last month after receiving a telephone call from the new Liberal chief Mark Carney, who has been Prime Minister for less than 50 days after replacing Trudeau.
Fraser delivered a victory speech that denounced the comments of US President Donald Trump on the fact that the 51st state became the 51st state, and in an interview, he highlighted the extent of the economic threats to which Canada in the United States.
“We are going to need a deputy who has the experience to resist President Trump, and I will have the opportunity to be part of the team that does exactly that,” he said.
He noted that the conservatives had launched a lot of driving resources, including the organization of a rally with Hairyvre in the last week of the campaign. “Despite the fact that we had a short period of time, we were able to come together,” he said.
In the southwest of Nova Scotia, where the lobster industry is king, the conservatives have lost a difficult fight to keep the southern shore-St. Margarets, a horse riding curator, Rick Perkins won in 2021 when he defeated the Minister of Fisheries, Bernadette Jordan.
At the time, the Liberals faced persistent criticism of the way they managed the in progress disputes between indigenous and non -Aboriginal fishermen. These disputes have persisted, but the popularity of Perkins has decreased in the past four years. He lost against Jessica Jessica Fancy-Landry, school director and leadership consultant.
In the west of Nova Scotia, however, the conservative holder Chris of Entremont – a well -known former provincial politician – retained Acadie -Annapolis, beating the Liberal challenger Ronnie Leblanc, another former politician and provincial fisherman.
In New Brunswick, conservative holders have kept three of their bastions in the south and west of the province: Fundy Royal, Saint John-St. Cross and Tobic-Mactaquac.
But the race was too close to call in Lake Miramichi -Grand, in eastern New Brunswick, where the conservative holder Jake Stewart – a mandate deputy and former minister of the provincial cabinet – resigned last month in the midst of the criticisms of the curators in his conduct. Stewart narrowly won the constituency in 2021.
In the conduct of Fredericton-Oromocto, the newly elected liberal David Myles-a songwriter-said that the main things he had heard from the voters concerned the threats of the American president Donald Trump against Canada, and the persistent concerns about affordability and housing.
Myles also said that he had met a number of provincial progressives who launched their support behind the liberals.
“We have definitely won people like that,” he said. “You know, the Red Tory, the progressives of the conservatives of the past who do not really relate to conservatism as it is nationally.”
During the last week of the race, Carney went to Upper Onslow, NS, where he told supporters that Trump “tried to break us as a nation because they wanted to own us.” He compared the current trade war in a hockey match, saying: “When someone else drops the gloves, we know what to do.”
Hairyre painted a dark image of the future of Canada when he stopped in Halifax for a campaign event last week, accused the situation on almost 10 years of liberal government. The field of the conservative leader for change recalled how he had spent much of the last two years at the top of the polls by tirelessly slaming the Liberals of Trudeau and insisting that “Canada is broken”.
This Canadian press report was published for the first time on April 28, 2025.
– With Sarah Smellie files to St. John’s, NL, Lyndsay Armstrong in New Glasgow, NS and Hina Alam in Fredericton.