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Publication Date: March 9, 2025 - 14:49
As it happened: Mark Carney wins Liberal leadership
March 9, 2025
The
Liberal Party of Canada
announced that Mark Carney won the leadership race on the first ballot, with more than 131,000 votes cast, at around 6:30 p.m. E.T. In second place was former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who received a little over 11,000 votes. Karina Gould received just under 4,800 votes and Frank Baylis received 4,038 votes.
On Saturday, National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, and columnists Terry Newman and Jamie Sarkonak provided live analysis of the Liberal party event as Canada learned who its next prime minister would be.
View the live blog above
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