The Liberal Party of Canada won a narrow victory on Monday night, catapulting its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to his first general election win.
The win is a fourth consecutive term for the party, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for Carney, who had originally faced a nearly 30-point deficit in polling to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
As of Tuesday morning, the liberals had captured 154 seats in Parliament, while the Conservative Party of Canada had won 131 seats. Time will tell whether the liberals win an outright majority—that would require 172 seats—or need to form a coalition government with another party in their parliamentary system.
Carney had been a prominent figure on the world stage in banking for nearly two decades. A graduate of Catholic schools in Canada, he was named the most influential Catholic in Britain by the Catholic…
