Justin Trudeau’s Liberals managed to win re-election last night, but they’ve been reduced to a minority government. That means they will need the help of an opposition party to pass legislation in Parliament and survive a confidence vote on a throne speech. The Liberals won 156 seats and were leading in one early today — 13 ridings short of the 170 needed for a majority and 20 fewer than they held at dissolution. The Conservatives won 121 seats, up from the 95 they had going into the vote, and they won the popular vote nationwide by a slim margin. But the N-D-P lost all but one of its ridings in Quebec and were elected or leading in 24 ridings — a loss of 15. The big winner was the Bloc Quebecois, which went from 10 seats to 32. The Green Party boosted its seat count to three with a surprise win in Fredericton, while People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier lost his Quebec seat. And former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould won her Vancouver-Granville riding as the country’s lone Independent M-P.
