Mail-in ballots could still flip results in several ridings – By Ryan Tumilty (National Post) / Sept 21 2021
Huge surge in ballot voting means counting won’t start until Wednesday, and could take days. The margins in many of these ridings are razor-thin
Mail-in ballots will decide the final outcome in more than a dozen ridings across the country and it could be days before some candidates know if they’re going to be elected as MPs or not.
The ridings won’t be enough to deny Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his minority government, but they could weaken or strengthen his hand in the new Parliament.
Currently, Trudeau and the Liberals are leading in 158 seats across the country, most of those are settled, but in eight ridings the party is leading by a thin margin, with thousands of votes from mail-in ballots still needing to be counted.
In Alberta, as an example, the Liberals are ahead in Edmonton-Centre, but Liberal candidate Randy Boissonnault has just a 136-vote lead over Conservative MP James Cummings, while 3,191 mail-in ballots remain to be counted.
