Byelection results: Justin Trudeau handed his second byelection upset in recent months

Runoff results: Justin Trudeau is pulling off his second runoff upset in as many months as he's been called a presidential candidate for the second time in months.

"Obviously it would have been better if we could have won and held Verdun, but there's more work to be done and we're working on it," Trudeau said Tuesday morning in Ottawa.

There's "all kinds of reflection" on what went wrong for the Liberals, Trudeau said after announcing in advance that he would decide to stay on as leader regardless of the results.

Trudeau: The important thing is to make sure that Canadians understand that what they're choosing to do in the next election in a kind of country is really important, and that's what we're going to continue to do. All those who register their names on the ballots when they leave, we know in the moment politics in the moment that excites, I say. Trudeau said. "At the same time, we need people to be more involved. "We need people to understand what's at stake."

It was a better night for the parties that balance the power in actual decision making.

The Bloc Quebecois LaSalle-Amard-Verdon, Que., captured an old Liberal seat in Montreal, and KDP leader Jagmeet Singh narrowly won the NDP base of Elmwood Transcona, Manchester, and lone Conservative Poiliev Perrier. to defeat Matchmaking pair put up another ride.

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After June's shocking loss to the Conservatives in the safe Liberal seat of Toronto-St. Paul sparked a wave of calls for Trudeau's resignation and left some members of his panel disillusioned about his electoral future.

How the Bloc and NDP by-election winners will influence them to help keep the embattled Liberals on their feet, or better yet, help them get started, will also be something to watch.

Trudeau is meeting his cabinet in Ottawa this morning, where he is to be quizzed by reporters on whether they are still confident the prime minister can reverse the Liberal policy decision.

Bloc leader Yves Francois Blanchet is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. ET. If he might be bolstered by this victory, he is already looking forward to the election, because the party's numbers in Quebec "look very good." Singh is scheduled to take questions before the session this afternoon.

LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, Que. Results
Counting of votes in the southwest Montreal riding continued through the night and into the early hours of Tuesday morning because each ballot was nearly a meter long.

It was the group's second "longest ballot committee" lookout to address Trudeau's broken promise of electoral reform, which saw more than 70 independent candidates lose and ultimately win a few hundred votes among the incumbent Liberals.

According to the preliminary results of the new Canadian election (opens at 1), in the end, Louis-Philippe Sauvé, the candidate of the Bloc Québécois, came out on top with 28% of the vote. A former party staffer, Sauve came to Ottawa from the Institute for Contemporary Economic Research.

This victory is a great victory for the secessionist party, as it wins the island of Montreal.

Liberal candidate, Montreal City Councilor Laura Palestine, came in second with 27.2 per cent, followed by NDP candidate and popular city councilor Craig So with 26.1 per cent.

Conservative candidate and business owner Luis Illanti was in fourth place with 11.6 percent, while Mercier, a Greens candidate and activist, was fifth with only 1.8 percent of the vote.

Looking further down the polls, the People's Party won more votes than the fledgling New Canadian Party of the Future.

The re-election was triggered by the resignation of Minister David Lamety in January (opens in tab) following a cabinet reshuffle. Lametti represented the Montreal Southwest riding since 2015.

In the last two federal terms, the Liberals won races held by former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin by nearly 44% and 43% of the vote.

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