Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and his Liberal Party failed to win most seats in Parliament in Monday’s elections, and will need the help of smaller matches to approve legislation and follow an agenda of challenges, including confronting the president.
With the final results on Tuesday from almost all districts one day after the surveys closed, the liberals secured 169 seats in the parliament of 343 members, just three less than the majority, according to Elections Canada, the independent bodies. The conservative party won 144 seats.
The result was still a resounding success for a liberal party that three months ago was predicted that it would lose badly to the conservative opposition and for Mr. Carney, who had never postulated for any elected position before Monday. It gives liberals a fourth consecutive term in the government.
Although a majority government would have allowed Mr. Carney to boost their policies without relying on others in Parliament, the task of ensuring the support of other members to approve laws and budgets did not seem too demanding: liberals have governed without most, for the last terms, for the terms, by the terms, for the terms, for the terms, for the terms. Small parties such as the green and the new leftist democrats are more naturally aligned with the political platform of the left of the liberals.
The conservative party had easily leading the surveys until March, when Mr. Trump’s tariffs on the effect of Canadian goods and Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister and liberal leader. For the conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, the sharp parties worsened by the fact that he lost his seat, who had a hero for 20 years, before a liberal candidate.
The election has been extraordinary in many ways, with candidates and many voters who describe him as the most critical vote in their lives.
He was dominated by Trump and his relentless approach to Canada, the closest ally in the United States and the commercial partner. Tariffs imposed on Canadian products, including cars, steel and aluminum, pushing the country towards a recession, and repeatedly threatened to annex it as state 51. Even when Canadians were heading to the polls on Monday, it repeated their argument in social networks that making Canada be part of the United States would generate economic and military benefits.
Trump and Mr. Carney spoke on Tuesday by phone, said Mr. Carney’s office in a letter statement, added that they would meet “in the near future.”
“President Trump congratulated Prime Minister Carney for his elections recently,” the statement said. “The leaders agreed to the importance of Canada and the United States from working together, as independent and sovereign nations, for their mutual improvement.”
Mr. Carney, 60, an experienced economist and policy manufacturer who was promoted as the Anti-Trump candidate and focused his campaign to deal with the United States, finally benefited from the actions of the US President.
Now, it is likely to be tried for how it is in Canada’s defense of the damage, including significant employment losses and the limp of the main industries, which a prolonged commercial war could cause.
In his acceptance speech on Early Tuesday, Mr. Carney warned the Canadians who would be difficult times ahead, as he did that he was prepared to protect Canada’s interests in his treatment with Mr. Trump.
“As I have been warning for months, the United States wants our land, our resources, our water,” he said. “President Trump is trying to break us so he can own us. That will never happen.”
Pailievre, 45, and the conservatives had been dominating the polls for years, building their support around the argument that Trudeau and the liberals had dragged Canada to chronic economic discomfort.
But they observed their two -digit advantage to disappear quickly after Trump launched his aggressive campaign against Canada and Trudeau, which had a deeply unpopular leg, he resigned.
The Canadians who headed to the polls were worried about both the country’s relationship with their neighbor to the south and with the state of the economy at home. The affair concerns, mainly about housing, were opinion surveys carried out before the elections were shown, and seemed to boost the conservative candidates in some districts.
But the election of Canada on Monday also served as a referendum in Trump and the way it has the legs covered by the allies of the United States and its commercial partners.
It was the second great international choice since Trump came to power, after the management of Germany, and the management of the break in the relationship with the United States of Canada is being monitored worldwide.
The election also stressed that Mr. Trump’s policy brand can become toxic to conservatives in other places if they are considered too synchronized with their ideological and rhetorical style.
The repeated complaints of Mr. Poilievre of “Radical Ideology Woke” and promises to define the national station of Canada and reduce foreign aid seemed to have cost the centrist voters, suggested the pre -electoral surveys.
The defeat of the matches and the loss of Mr. Poilievre of his own seat could trigger a battle for conservative leadership, he thought that the party won more seats and a majority of the vote than in the years.
For Mr. Carney, victory marked the amazing culmination of its rapid increase in Canada’s political establishment since he entered the race to replace Mr. Trudeau in January.
A political rookie but veteran of policy formulation, Mr. Carney, a former central banker, transmitted a serious tone and challenge measured and the challenge towards the beligenence of Mr. Trump, helping to influence many voters who had legs contemplating support for conservatives, according to surveys and some individual voters.
And his policy as pragmatic and centrist seemed to align themselves better with Canada’s mood after a decade or the progressive agenda of Mr. Trudeau.
In the early hours of Tuesday, in the midst of celebrations, Mr. Carney said he was ready for the challenge. “We will fight with everything we have to get the best treatment for Canada,” he said. “We will build an independent future for our great country.”