Recount sees Liberals take Quebec riding of Terrebonne by 1 vote
Posted May 10, 2025 08:21:23 PM.
Last Updated May 11, 2025 08:26:48 AM.
An official with Elections Canada says the seat for the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped from the Bloc Québécois to the Liberals by a single vote after the results of a judicial recount.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada called for a judicial recount on May 7 after results showed Bloc Québécois incumbent MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné had defeated Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste by 44 votes.
Originally, Auguste had been declared the winner one day after election day. However, it flipped to the Bloc during the validation process, which is different than a recount.
Following the recount, Auguste has 23,352 votes while Sinclair-Desgagné is shown with 23,351 votes.
The recount in Terrebonne added 74 votes to the total number of valid votes and increased the vote count of four of the six candidates. Auguste gained 56 votes, and Sinclair-Desgagné gained 11. The Conservative candidate, Adrienne Charles gained five votes, and the NDP candidate Maxime Beaudoin, gained four.
The Green candidate saw their vote total reduced by two, while the People’s Party candidate total stayed the same.
The result gives the Liberals 170 seats in the House of Commons, with the Bloc now down to 21.
A judicial recount is ordered if the difference between the number of votes cast for the candidate with the most votes and the number of votes cast for any other candidate is less than one one-thousandth (1/1000) or 0.1 per cent of the valid votes cast.
Recounts have also been ordered for Milton East-Halton Hills South, where the validation process flipped the riding in the Liberals’ favour by just 29 votes. That recount will begin on May 13.
A recount is also set to take place on May 12 in the Newfoundland and Labrador riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas, where the Liberals were declared the winner by just 12 votes.
A third recount in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore will get underway on May 20 after Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk argued several ballots were “wrongly rejected” after the validation process showed he lost to his Conservative challenger Kathy Borrelli by 77 votes.
Even if the Liberals manage to flip the Ontario riding, they will still be one seat short of the 172 required for a majority government.
