Canada elections 2025 live updates: Mark Carney and Pierre Boulevri compete for the Prime Minister

Who votes and what in voting?

All Canadian citizens, including prisoners and people who live outside the country, are eligible to vote except for one. The electoral official, the non -party official who has mandated the parliament, cannot manage the electoral system, to make a ballot during his term for a period of 10 years.

Through traditions, the general governor, who holds the powers and responsibilities of King Charles as President of the State of Canada, abstains from voting to protect the political neutrality of the office.

The voters have one task: the selection of their local member in the House of Commons, the elected association of the Canadian Parliament. The following parliament will have 343 members, an increase of five since the last elections due to population growth.

Canada uses the “first past” system, where the candidate who carries the largest number of votes wins the seat, even if this total is not the majority of polling cards.

There is no vote on referendums or other offices.

What are the issues?

President Trump’s tariff for Canadian exports and his repeated calls to make the country, as the state dominated the campaign.

Many Canadians view a vote as a referendum on those who can deal with Mr. Trump in the best way, while they also reach a plan to reduce harm to the country from the economic turmoil caused by definitions.

Opinion polls show that many Canadians consider Mr. Carne more suitable for Mr. Trump and has helped the liberal party erasing two numbers by the conservatives.

Inflation, especially the high cost of grocery stores and high -homes prices, was issues of Mr. Poilievre used to upgrade what appeared to be a victory in the elections before Mr. Trump began targeting Canada and helped strengthen the liberals in the introduction in investigative studies.

Both liberals and conservatives are promising tax cuts and with the country’s sovereignty under threat, the two parties also pledged to increase military spending.

Climate change, a major topic in the previous elections, has received relatively little attention, as well as issues related to the indigenous population, another important field for Mr. Trudeau.

How do I vote?

Most of the Canadians received card In the mail it indicates the voting place and their locations for four days of advanced vote, which started on April 18. Canada’s elections, a non -party agency that runs the Canada elections, Online service For people whose cards have errors or who have not received a card.

While getting a card makes voting easier, it is not required.

(About 7.3 million Canadians made their votes during the advanced voting period, which took place from April 18 to April 21, according to the Canadian elections, an increase of 25 percent over the advanced vote in the elections 2021).

People who Living outside Canada Or who will not be in their societies either on election day or any of the pre -voting days until April 22 to April 22nd Submit a request for mail poll,, Which can also be delivered in any election office.

Any ballot cards will not be calculated to the Canada elections in Ottawa after 6 pm East on the day of voting.

Who are the leaders?

Mr. Carney, 60, the leader of the liberal party Who has been working as prime minister since early March, is a political beginner. He had a long profession in central banking and global finance.

Mr. Poilievre, 45, Conservative Party leaderHe was political for most of his adult life, and he is well known to the voters, after he sponsored his agenda accurately and points of conversation and image.

Two other candidates are competing to maintain the representation of their parties in Parliament: Jagmeet Singh is from the new Democrats, a left -wing party that focused many of its campaign on health care and has witnessed this Support In opinion polls, it sinks to the lowest level since 2000, and Yves-François Blanchett from Bloc Québécois, who only runs candidates in Quebec. The Green Party also runs candidates in many regions throughout the country.

But Mr. Poilievre and Mr. Carne are widely recognized that they are the only two people who can get enough support to become prime minister.

Who elects the Prime Minister?

No one directly. In general, the party, which appears at least a large number of seats in the House of Commons, will ask the Governor -General to allow the formation of the government. The leader of the party that forms the government as prime minister, and then the cabinet, usually chooses from the party members of the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister is not required to be a member of Parliament. Mr. Carney, behind Justin Trudeau last month after the members of the liberal party HHe put it as a leader for them. He is now running in his first elections, to represent a surface of the middle class instead of the wealthy neighborhood, where he lives with many diplomats.

One case dominates

President Trump’s definition attack on Canada and his repeated calls to include the country, as the 51st Canadian state consumed before calling the vote and continued to control the campaign. Many Canadians view a vote as a referendum about who can deal with Mr. Trump in the best way while developing a plan to reduce the country from the economic turmoil established by the president.

Inflation, especially on food, and high prices in most audiences are the issues that Poilievre used to upgrade what it seemed to be a victory in the elections. Both liberals and conservatives reduce promising taxes.

With the threat of sovereignty now, the leaders have pledged to increase military spending.

Climate change, a major topic in the previous three elections, has received relatively little attention such as issues related to the indigenous population, another important field for Mr. Trudeau.

When is the results known?

Canada has six time areas, but the survey closure times are overlapping so that most of them are closed at 9:30 pm Easter, regardless of their whereabouts. The western province is located in British Columbia, closed after half an hour, at 10 pm East. The election results will be likely to be known, on the evening of April 28.

Canada uses the paper voting cards that are calculated by hand in each survey station, by Canada’s election employees. Candidates are allowed to appoint representatives to supervise the count. Do not use counting machines.

Then the results of the polling station are reported up to the Canadian election headquarters in Ottawa, which it launches online immediately.

Since the polls are not transferred to the central counting sites, the first results usually begin to flow after the polls are closed. The full number usually extends until the wide result of the elections becomes clear.

Special polling cards used for people who vote by mail, prisoners, Canadians outside the country and military personnel are not counted even after the day of voting to allow officials to emphasize that they did not vote personally.

What if no party gets most of the seats?

Canada does not have a history of European -style coalition governments, as it includes many political parties together to form the cabinet and governance. The only exception during World War I, when conservatives and some liberals in the House of Commons, along with independent members, were an alliance with the increasing political divisions of recruitment.

However, the minority governments formed by the party that wins most of the seats are common. They usually depend on the informal support of other parties to pass the legislation. But such governments live in a permanent danger of reduction by losing confidence vote in the House of Commons or have been defeated by a draft law that includes taxes or money spending.

In 1979, a progressive conservative government lasted only 66 days before its defeat, forcing other elections.

The new Democrats officially approved the support of Mr. Trudeau after the 2021 elections, in exchange for the liberal party adopting some of its policy measures. But the new Democrats were not part of the government of Mr. Trudeau.

Matina Stevez Gridin The reports contributed.