Liberals flip several Bloc ridings in Quebec on path to election victory
Posted April 29, 2025 8:06 am.
On an election night when the Liberal Party fell short of the overwhelming victor that most polls had predicted, Quebec was the only province where the party made significant gains.
The Liberals added nearly a dozen seats to their previous tally in Quebec, winning or leading in 43 ridings as of early Tuesday morning.
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In the Montreal area, Liberal candidates managed to flip several ridings from the Bloc Québécois, including LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, which they had lost in the byelection last September.
Off the island, the pick-ups for the Liberals came from the ridings of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles in Laval and La Prairie–Atateken on the South Shore.
Bloc Québécois incumbent Mario Beaulieu in La Pointe-de-l’île and the New Democrat incumbent in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Alexandre Boulerice, managed to tide the red wave in Montreal and hold their seats.
The riding of Terrebonne remained too close to call, with Bloc incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné leading by just 28 votes as of early Tuesday morning. She won the riding by 12 points in the 2021 election.
Senior Liberal leaders like Mélanie Joly, Steven Guilbeault, Rachel Bendayan and Marc Miller were re-elected.
Foreign Minister Joly thanked her constituents of Ahuntsic—Cartierville for electing her for a fourth consecutive term.
“I wouldn’t have the chance to do what I do and represent a strong voice across the country and in the world if it wasn’t for folks in Ahuntsic—Cartierville. So I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart,” Joly told CityNews.
Joly said the Liberal Party would be ready to work with the Bloc Québécois, if necessary. “We’ll see first and foremost what the end results will be, and we’re always ready to adapt. So, we’ll do that.”
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Joly said dealing the United States will be the top priority for the Liberal government.
“Clearly we will have to deal with Donald Trump and his trade war that he launched against Canada, and also deal with the threat of annexation that he also made many times including today. So we know we’ll have to negotiate a relationship with the U.S. on trade and on security,” she said, adding the relationship with the U.S. will never be the same.
Immigration minister Rachel Bendayan, who won her riding of Outremont, echoed Joly’s assessment of the U.S. threats. But she added her constituents would like to see the Liberal government to focus on other issues like environment and affordability as well.
“What’s really important to the residents in my riding is not to forget about climate change and the importance of protecting the environment, not to forget about growing the economy and making sure that life is more affordable for everyday Canadians and really attacking the housing crisis,” Bendayan said.
Former minister Marc Miller, speaking to CityNews earlier on election night, hoped for a strong four-year mandate for his party to deal with affordability and cost of housing.
But in a sign of what might have been a galvanizing issue for Liberal voters, Miller said he heard from many voters on the campaign trail that “the number one preoccupation is how we fight the U.S.”
