Canada's opposition leader Poilievre loses his seat in federal election

By Promit Mukherjee

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's main absorption person Pierre Poilievre mislaid his spot successful Monday's wide election, results from Elections Canada showed, arsenic the Conservatives were beaten by the incumbent Liberal Party.

Poilievre, 45, failed to clasp his spot successful the Ontario territory of Carleton, losing it to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

The Liberal Party's triumph means Prime Minister Mark Carney, erstwhile caput of the cardinal Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, volition pb a number government.

The Liberals secured 168 seats, abbreviated of the 172 required to signifier a bulk government.

The absorption Conservatives, led by Poilievre, won 144 seats.

That was an betterment connected their show successful the 2021 election, but marked an upset arsenic the Liberals, who were trailing successful the polls, staged a comeback successful the past 3 months.

"To my chap Conservatives, we person overmuch to observe tonight. We've gained good implicit 20 seats," Poilievre said, portion conceding decision to the Liberal Party.

"We are cognizant of the information that we didn't rather get implicit the decorativeness line. Yet we cognize that alteration is needed, but alteration is hard to travel by. It takes time."

Poilievre, a vocation politician, looked acceptable to go Canada's adjacent premier curate astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth arsenic helium pitched himself arsenic a alteration from erstwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had led the Liberals since 2015.

Poilievre rode an anti-Trudeau question and his crisp one-liners resonated with the public.

But arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs connected Canada and often mused astir making it his country's 51st state, opinions shifted successful favour of Carney implicit Poilievre.

Young voters, particularly men, continued to enactment Poilievre and throng to his rallies successful the run-up to the election.

"It volition beryllium an grant to proceed to combat for you and to beryllium a champion of your cause," Poilievre said successful his speech.

It was not instantly known whether helium would resign arsenic the person of the enactment oregon continue. An email sent to the Conservative Party was not instantly answered.

(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; editing by Jason Neely)