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The 2021 federal election takes place September 20.

For more information on voting, visit the Elections Canada website.

Election results are unofficial at this time and are estimates.

Lethbridge

Rachael Harder – Conservative (Projected Winner): 56%

Elaine Perez – NDP: 19%

Devon Hargreaves – Liberal: 15%

Kimmie Hovan – People’s Party: 7%

Kim Siever – Independent: 2%

Geoffrey Capp – Christian Heritage: 1%

Medicine Hat – Cardston – Warner

Glen Motz – Conservative (Projected Winner): 65%

Jocelyn Stenger – NDP: 14%

Brody Heidinger – People’s Party: 9%

Hannah Wilson – Liberal: 7%

Geoff Shoesmith – Maverick Party: 3%

Diandra Bruised Head – Green: 1%

Bow River 

Martin Shields – Conservative (Projected Winner): 70%

Jonathan Nicklos Bridges – People’s Party: 10%

Michael MacLean – NDP: 9%

Getu Shawile – Liberal: 8%

Orrin Bliss – Maverick Party: 3%

Tom Lipp – Christian Heritage: 1%

Foothills 

John Barlow – Conservative (Projected Winner): 69%

Michelle Traxel – NDP: 11%

Daniel Hunter – People’s Party: 8%

Paula Shimp – Liberal: 7%

Josh Wylie – Maverick Party: 4%

Brett Rogers – Green: 1%

Federal Election 2021

COVID-19 pandemic dampens but doesn't extinguish election-watching parties
OTTAWA - Monday's federal election put a damper on a traditional form of watching the returns with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of viewing parties across the country. Large indoor gatherings were for the most part either less appealing, or off-limits, due to the virus and the higher-than-average number of ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Early election results have Liberals leading, Bloc slipping in Quebec
MONTREAL - Early election results have the Liberals leading in Quebec after a race dominated by frequent appeals to Quebec nationalism. Shortly after 11 p.m., about 90 minutes after polls closed, the Liberals were elected or leading in 36 ridings in the province, while the Bloc was elected or leading in 29. The Liberal...
Sep 21, 2021
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BREAKING: Liberals projected to form government
The Canadian Press is projecting that the Liberal party will win the most seats in the 2021 federal election, giving them the best chance to form the next government.It is not yet clear whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will win a majority, or need the support of at least one other party to remain in power with a m...
Sep 21, 2021
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Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada looking for electoral breakthrough
The People's Party of Canada, led by the outspoken Maxime Bernier, is looking to turn growing support into ballot-box success this evening. Opinion polls have consistently shown party support hovering at five per cent or higher during the federal campaign, even though Bernier was excluded from national leaders' debates...
Sep 21, 2021
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Ballot count underway across the country as federal election polls close in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Polls have closed in British Columbia and Yukon, marking the end of voting across the country. Yukon's chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley is on leave to run for the Liberals to replace Larry Bagnell, who spent two decades as the territory's Liberal MP. While many ridings in B.C. have remained c...
Sep 21, 2021
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Conservatives make inroads in Atlantic Canada, but Liberal fortress remains strong
HALIFAX - Voters in Atlantic Canada loosened Justin Trudeau's grip on the region Monday by delivering a handful of new seats to the Conservatives, signalling a mild rebuke of the Liberal leader's decision to call an election during the pandemic's fourth wave. In the six years since Trudeau won a majority government in ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Trudeau's political future hangs in the balance as Atlantic results show tenuous lead
MONTREAL - Thirty-six days after his fateful decision to trigger a federal election, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saw some early warning signs Monday night as results began to roll in for Canada's 44th election. He lost a cabinet minister in Bernadette Jordan after the Liberal-held South Shore-St. Margarets riding in ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Liberal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan loses re-election bid
OTTAWA - Liberal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan has been defeated in the South Shore-St. Margarets riding in Nova Scotia by Conservative candidate Rick Perkins. Jordan was first elected as a member of Parliament in 2015 and has served as a minister in Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's government since 20...
Sep 21, 2021
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The latest on results and developments in Canada's 44th general election
OTTAWA - The latest on developments and results in the federal election. All times are eastern. 9:30 p.m. Polls are now closed in Ontario - a key battleground that could determine the outcome of the federal election. In 2019, the Liberals swept Toronto and many of the so-called 905 ridings around the city. There are so...
Sep 21, 2021
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Erin O'Toole campaigned on a renewed, moderate Conservative party - but will it work?
OSHAWA, Ont. - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is waiting to see if his more moderate approach to issues like climate change, spending and abortion pays off with a victory over his Liberal foe. The 48-year-old is watching the election results roll in at a hockey arena in Oshawa, Ont., after casting a ballot earlier Mo...
Sep 21, 2021
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Jagmeet Singh says he's excited and nervous as NDP vie for more seats in election
VANCOUVER - The NDP are looking for any growth in their caucus as election night started off with the loss of a key seat in Atlantic Canada. St. John's East, the New Democrats only seat in the region, fell to Liberal Joanne Thompson. It was formerly held by Jack Harris, who retired from politics with the onset of the ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Election officials expect most postal votes to be counted by Wednesday
OTTAWA - The final results of the federal election may not be known until Wednesday, election officials have warned, because of almost one million mail-in ballots that will not be opened until Tuesday. A clutch of close-run ridings, where mail-in ballots could prove crucial to the result, may have to wait days for a wi...
Sep 21, 2021
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LIVE: Federal Election Results
Monday, September 20th marks the 44th general federal election in Canada.Canadians are heading to the polls to choose their next MPs and who should lead the country as the Prime Minister.Live results can be found below:10;40 p.m. The Canadian Press is projecting that the Liberal party will win the most seats in the 202...
Sep 20, 2021
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20% of eligible voters in Lethbridge took part in advance voting
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Prior to the start of the general election day, about one-fifth of eligible voters in Lethbridge had already cast their ballots.Elections Canada has released its estimate of turnout at advance polls for the 44th general federal election.An estimated 18,248 people in Lethbridge took advantage of early p...
Sep 20, 2021
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Canadians heading to the polls to choose next federal government
OTTAWA - Canada's first-ever pandemic election culminates today as Canadians from coast-to-coast go to the polls to choose the 338 members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons. Elections Canada says almost 6.8 million people voted early, most of them at advanced polls over a week ago, and the rest through speci...
Sep 20, 2021
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'Don't split the vote by voting PPC,' O'Toole tells supporters on final campaign day
TORONTO - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole delivered his starkest plea yet for people not to split the vote on the right by picking the People's Party of Canada on what was his last day before polls open. Conservatives have been ramping up their warnings in recent days against voters going over to Maxime Bernier's more...
Sep 20, 2021
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Bloc Québécois leader makes final stop in undecided ridings, hoping to recover seats
MONTREAL - Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet ended his final day of the federal election campaign on Sunday in Quebec ridings he hopes to wrest from his opponents ahead of Monday's election. He began his eleventh-hour push on familiar turf, campaigning in his adopted home city of Shawin...
Sep 19, 2021
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Singh vows to fight for people even if there's a 'Groundhog Day' minority government
BURNABY, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made a final push for votes in British Columbia by saying his party will fight for people no matter what happens during Monday's election. The New Democrats remain on the offensive during a busy final day in the Lower Mainland, visiting ridings held by Liberals and Conservative...
Sep 19, 2021
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The Undecideds: How three Canadian voters made their choice in the election
Canadians are set to go to the polls Monday, but not everyone has always known what they were going to do when they got there. The Canadian Press followed three undecided voters through the ups and downs of this election campaign to see how they made up their minds. LEDON WELLON, MOUNT PEARL, N.L. Reflections on the c...
Sep 19, 2021
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Imams ask Conservative candidate to quit over poor follow-up on apology for posts
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia's Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for earlier posts he made about Shariah law a...
Sep 19, 2021
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Trudeau makes last-minute appeal to progressive voters on final campaign day
MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau kicked off the final day of the federal election campaign by telling progressive voters that his party is the best option to stop Erin O'Toole's Conservatives from forming government. Trudeau told some 300 supporters at an outdoor rally in Montreal that progressive voters no lon...
Sep 19, 2021
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Election official, who runs chocolate shop, flies ballot box to 27 B.C. lighthouses.
OTTAWA - They lead solitary lives, isolated for months on tiny islets and craggy ocean bluffs. Yet despite their remote locations, Canada's reclusive lighthouse keepers have one of the highest voter turnouts in the country - thanks to a part-time election official who flew in their ballots by helicopter. Vlasta Booth,...
Sep 19, 2021
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Winnipeg South has a history of siding with winners in federal elections
WINNIPEG - Winnipeg South This large suburban area is a true bellwether riding. Since its reincarnation in 1988 (it had been dissolved into parts of two ridings in 1979), it has always elected a politician of the winning party. Liberal incumbent Terry Duguid took the seat in 2015 after Rod Bruinooge had held the riding...
Sep 19, 2021
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Party leaders to make final appeals to voters ahead of tomorrow's election
OTTAWA - Candidates are making their final appeals to voters today ahead of tomorrow's federal election. The three main party leaders have packed schedules as they try to reach as much of the electorate as possible. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has a series of virtual and in-person events planned in at least six pro...
Sep 19, 2021
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Federal Election 2021

John Barlow projected to be re-elected as MP for Foothills
CROWSNEST PASS, AB - John Barlow is gearing up to start his fourth term in just seven years.He was re-elected as a member of the Conservatives in Monday's federal election, serving the southwestern-Alberta riding of Foothills."I'm very proud of our campaign team and all the work that we did over the last six weeks...
Sep 23, 2021
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Martin Shields projected to be re-elected as MP for Bow River
TABER, AB - Martin Shields is set to enter his third term as a Member of Parliament.The Conservative incumbent for the Bow River riding to projected to be re-elected by a wide margin in the 2021 federal election."To be elected in the first place is an honour, but to be re-elected is incredible that people put thei...
Sep 22, 2021
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'DISGUSTED' BY NATIONAL RESULTS
Motz wins again in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Glen Motz has been re-elected as the MP for the riding of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner. He said he is pleased with the local federal election results and praised his campaign team. However, on the national level, he said he's incredibly disappointed. On Monday night, Motz said, "I was certainly ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Rachael Harder projected to be re-elected in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Conservative Incumbent Rachael Harder is set to have another term as Lethbridge's MP.Canada's most expensive election in its history has left the country with another projected liberal minority.The 44th federal election, at an estimated cost of $611-million -- or about $108 million more than in 2019, p...
Sep 21, 2021
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