Conservative leader and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a campaign rally in London yesterday.
CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERS
By Richard J. Brennan and Bruce Campion-Smith
It was a night full of surprises but in the end Stephen Harper got what he had so long sought – a healthy majority. Unconfirmed results had the Tories winning or leading 167 ridings, well above the 155 needed for a majority. The NDP was on track to almost triple the 36 seats the party previously held.
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Conservative Julian Fantino was re-elected in Vaughan, beating Liberal Mario Ferri.
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Tory incumbent Peter Van Loan always looked like the front-runner, the MP since 2004 and minister for international trade in the last cabinet.
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New leadership in Scarborough Rouge-River in the wake of longtime Liberal incumbent Derek Lee’s retirement.
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Despite a surge of support for the New Democratic party, Jim Karygiannis scored his eighth straight win in Scarborough-Agincourt Monday night.
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Liberal John Cannis tried to defend the riding for the sixth straight time since first taking it in 1993.
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NDP candidate Andrew Cash defeated Liberal incumbent Mario Silva in Davenport tonight.
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NDP candidate Matthew Kellway was poised to take the long-held Liberal riding of Beaches-East York at press time.
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Liberal incumbent Alan Tonks was facing a furious charge from NDP challenger Mike Sullivan according to early returns from the west end Toronto riding of York South-Weston.
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Liberal Bryon Wilfert lost out on a sixth term as MP in Richmond Hill Monday night against Conservative Costas Menegakis.
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Conservative incumbent Terence Young takes Oakville a second time.
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Mississauga’s waterfront riding of Mississauga South has finally taken the plunge into the blue.
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Tory MP Bev Oda held off a Liberal challenge to battle her way back from a bungled funding decision to a fourth term.
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Did Pakistan’s spy service know where Al Qaeda chief was hiding?
