The 50 MPs in ridings where 142 former residential schools are located
Fifty of Parliament’s 338 MPs have former residential schools in their riding boundaries, with the 142 sites identified in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s landmark report spread across the three territories and seven provinces. Since May, the remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children have been found at the sites of the former government-funded residential […]
All the federal leaders’ stops during the 2021 campaign
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh criss-crossed the country during a breakneck 36-day campaign. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, meanwhile, kept up his own rapid pace, often visiting multiple ridings in Quebec per day in an effort to bolster his party’s 32 seats, out of a potential […]
The 24 ridings AFN says First Nations voters can decide the election outcome
There are 24 ridings where First Nations voters could play “kingmaker” in the upcoming election, according to the Assembly of First Nations. To come up with the list, the national advocacy organization said it analyzed First Nations population data from Statistics Canada and combined it with 2019 election outcomes, taking into consideration ridings with very […]
The former MPs who are running again in 2021
At least 22 former MPs are running to win back their seats this election, including nine Liberals, eight NDP candidates, three Conservatives, and two People’s Party of Canada candidates. Half are running in Quebec, which saw some of the biggest shifts last election when the Bloc Québécois surged from 10 to 32 seats, the Liberals […]
How Trudeau’s cabinet ministers did in the last election
All but one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s (Papineau, Que.) cabinet of 37 are vying for re-election. Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna, who has represented Ottawa Centre, Ont., since 2015 is stepping away after winning the riding by a healthy 19.7 per cent margin in 2019. All the other members of Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet were incumbents […]
The 95 MPs who won by 10% or less in 2019
The 14 rural ridings that Liberals won in 2015 but lost in 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals face a tough race to regain the 14 ridings the party won in 2015, but lost in 2019. Read more on reporter Abbas Rana’s coverage here, and click here, or use the below list to search these key ridings.
The 13 suburban ridings that will be key battlegrounds this election
The 13 suburban ridings that were decided with the closest margin in 2019 will be the battleground ridings in the next election, and winning them all could deliver the Liberals a majority government, say former Liberal MPs who are running in the next election and pollsters. Read more on reporter Abbas Rana’s coverage here, and […]
The 47 MPs who won by 5% or less in 2019
In the ridings secured by the slimmest margins in 2019, Liberal candidates took 26 of the 47 seats won by less than five per cent. Click here or look below to search through the list.
The list of 29 MPs not running in the next election and how they did in 2019
Editor’s note: This article, first published on Aug. 9, 2021, was updated on Aug. 17, 2021. Please contact us at news@hilltimes.com if any names are missing.
