Mark Carney’s Liberal Party reaches parliamentary majority and will be able to govern Canada alone until 2029

The country’s main television networks announced 90 minutes after the closing of polling stations in two constituencies in Toronto and one in Montreal that the Liberals will clearly win at least two new deputies, which leaves Carney’s party with 173 of the 343 deputies of the Lower House of Parliament.

The victory in the two Toronto constituencies allows the Liberals to have a parliamentary majority for the first time in seven years and removes the possibility of early elections that has been flying over the Canadian political landscape since, in the elections of April 28, 2025, the Liberal Party was three seats away from control of the Lower House.

In recent months, Carney had increased the number of Liberal seats by recruiting three Conservative MPs and one from the social democratic New Democratic Party (NPD) to the government ranks. But the Canadian head of government still needed at least one more deputy to ensure stability during his mandate.

The prime minister thus consolidates his leadership in Canada at least until 2029, the year in which the next general elections will be held. The last time a Canadian government had a majority in Parliament was under the mandate of Justin Trudeaubetween 2015 and 2019.

Carney’s position was strengthened when five opposition MPs defected to the Liberal Party in just five months. Only the governments led by John A. Macdonald, Canada’s prime minister, and Jean Chrétien have seen greater numbers of politicians join the ruling party.

Meanwhile, the recount in the third seat at stake this Monday, in one of the Montreal constituencies, continued late into the night. The seat is being disputed by the liberal Tatiana Auguste and the independentist of the Bloc Quebecois (BQ), Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné.

In the 2025 general election, the seat was initially won by the Liberal candidate by one vote over Sinclair-Desgagné. But The Supreme Court of Canada ordered a rerun of the election upon detecting at least one irregularity in the voting process.