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Canada has a "first-past-the-post" electoral system. The candidate who gets the most votes in each electoral district, or riding, wins that seat and becomes a Member of Parliament (MP). The Liberals ...
At least seven members of Parliament are vying to be speaker of the House of Commons in an election that will take place ...
The government House leader says he doesn’t expect the NDP to gain official party status in the House of Commons.
At least six MPs are asking their colleagues for support in their bid to become Speaker, with many speaking about the need to ...
Given the current makeup of the House, several political strategists told iPolitics it may benefit the Liberals to rally ...
Maple Leaf Canada has achieved a historic milestone with the newest federal election: a record 22 candidates of Punjabi descent have earned seats in the House of Commons. This represents a significant ...
As the headlines speculate about the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats in 2028 following the next census, the prospect of an ...
Seat swaps more than doubled compared to the last election, and all 59 seats that flipped went to the Liberals or the ...
Soon after 22:00 EDT on Tuesday (02:00 GMT on Wednesday), national broadcaster CBC projected that the Liberal Party was headed to win an adequate number of seats in the House of Commons to form a ...
Three more parties, all projected to secure small numbers of seats in the country’s parliament, the House of Commons, are in the fray: the left-wing New Democratic Party; the Greens; and the ...
Just a couple of basic factors—House generic ballot polling and the number of seats the presidential party is defending—do a decent job of predicting midterm congressional election results.
As of the 2025 federal election, the Canadian House of Commons comprises 343 seats, an increase from the previous 338. This adjustment reflects the electoral redistribution based on the 2021 ...