Global News has declared the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau will form the next government of Canada and will have a majority mandate.
An Election Day survey conducted by Ipsos exclusively for Global News asked more than 9,000 voters Monday how satisfied they would be with a majority or minority with 58 per cent of respondents saying they would be “very or somewhat satisfied” with a majority government.
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Looking specifically at the question of the possibility of a Liberal majority, respondents were divided with 31 per cent saying they were not all satisfied and 29 per cent saying they were very satisfied. Another 22 per cent were somewhat satisfied, while 19 per cent were not very satisfied.
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The Liberals resonated among young voters with 62 per cent of people age 18 to 34 saying they were both somewhat satisfied and very satisfied with a Liberal majority.
“It looks like the NDP vote has collapsed,” said Sean Simpson, vice president of Ipsos. “The NDP vote seems to have switched to Liberal at the last minute or NDP voters stayed home.”
Trudeau won his Papineau riding in the centre of Montreal with 61.5 per cent of the vote (with 5.6 per cent of the polls reporting), despite both the NDP and Conservatives running star candidates against him.
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Conservative leader Stephen Harper won re-election in his Calgary-Heritage riding and NDP leader Tom Mulcair won his riding of Outremont, Que.
Trudeau will head to 24 Sussex and the win is historic for several reasons. He will follow his father, Pierre, as Prime Minister of Canada and this will mark the first time a party has jumped from third-party status to form a majority government.
The NDP, which began the election campaign as a clear front-runner, had its support dwindle ahead of the Oct. 19 vote. Simpson says part of the reason is Mulcair no longer became the candidate voters saw as the best alternative to defeat Stephen Harper.
“We’re asking a question throughout the campaign and it’s ‘which party and leader represents the best opportunity to defeat the Conservatives,” said Simpson. “At the start of the campaign it was the NDP that was in the lead on that metric and by the end it was the Liberals.”
A separate survey question asked voters what the three major party leaders should do if they failed to win the most seats with 71 of respondents saying Harper should step down as party leader and 40 per cent saying Mulcair should resign.
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