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The Liberal Party Just Won Canada's Election

Justin Trudeau is going to be Canada's new prime minister.

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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is going to be Canada's new prime minister, and he will have the backing of a majority government. Hol-eeee shit, hope he's ready.

And for many of you, the more important news: Stephen Harper is no longer going to be the prime minister of Canada. Reports said he was stepping down, but he did not resign in his concession speech.

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"The people are never wrong," he told supporters Monday night.

As of 11:45 PM EST, the Liberals have won or are leading in about 190 ridings. The magic number for a majority was 170. The Tories trailed far back at about 100, while the NDP had an anemic 35.

The result comes not as a great surprise, as the Liberals had been leading in most polls over the past few weeks, but was a huge reversal from the start of the campaign. The NDP looked poised to move from the opposition to the government side of the House, but Tom Mulcair's campaign fell as flat as Michael Ignatieff's did in 2011.

Mulcair will probably need to shave his beard and go into hiding after tonight.

A number of prominent Conservatives lost their seats including Chris Alexander, Paul Calandra, and Julian Fantino.

While few predicted a Liberal majority was in the offing, the early results from Atlantic Canada suggested some kind of gross red metaphor was gonna be a thing as the Liberals took all four provinces handily.

The narrative you are going to read about elsewhere (and OK, here) is that appears that Trudeau was underestimated by both his NDP and Conservative opponents throughout this campaign.

The Liberal leader proved an aggressive debater who stood toe-to-toe with Harper's experience and glued-on hair and his gambit to move to the left of the NDP seemed to win Canada's "change vote."

Anyway, legalized weed could be a thing soon!

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