Toronto-St. Paul’s riding, held by Liberals for three decades, was seen as a test of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership
A Conservative supporter watches a split screen displaying voting results and the Stanley Cup final, at an federal byelection event for Toronto-St.Paul's candidate Don Stewart in Toronto on Monday, June 24, 2024.losing a midtown Toronto riding that the party has held for three decades and raising even more questions about the minority government’s prospects in next year’s general election.
Conservative candidate Don Stewart won with 42.1 per cent of the vote, when the networks called the election in his favour. Liberal Leslie Church was close behind with 40.5 per cent of the vote and 100 per cent of the polls reporting by 4:30 a.m. NDP candidate Amrit Parhar won 10.9 per cent of the vote.
“There is no language too hyperbolic to describe the significance of this failure,” said Scott Reid, a Liberal strategist and principal at Feschuk.Reid. “If you can lose in St. Paul’s, then the Liberal Party can lose anywhere, and that means it can lose everything.” Mr. Reid said the result is particularly stinging for the Prime Minister “because it tells him in indisputable, undeniable and implacable terms, that his leadership harms his own party.”
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