Canadian Federal Election of 2015

…lead the Bloc into the 2015 federal election. Despite rebounding to capture 10 seats, the Bloc still fell two seats short of reattaining official party status in the Canadian Parliament. That situation was dramatically reversed by the results of the 2019 federal election, in which the Bloc, under the leadership…

…liability for Harper during the 2015 election campaign, when Nigel Wright, his former chief of staff, testified in the high-profile trial of Sen. Mike Duffy, a Harper appointee. Wright had personally repaid the roughly $90,000 allowance that Duffy allegedly had wrongfully accepted.

In August 2015 Harper called for an election. For much of the campaign it was a close three-way race, but, when voters went to the polls, they handed the Liberal Party 184 seats, enough for it to form a majority government. The Conservatives finished second with 99…

In 2015 Duceppe came out of retirement to replace Mario Beaulieu as leader to guide the Bloc into that year’s federal election. Although the party fared better than in 2011 by capturing 10 seats, it still fell two seats short of re-achieving official party status in…

Despite Canada’s having technically slid into economic recession in 2015, Harper trumpeted the need for consistency at the country’s helm in early August as he called for the beginning of what would be Canada’s longest federal election campaign since the 19th century. At…

…surprising landslide victory in the 2015 federal election, in which the Liberals garnered 184 seats, allowing them to establish a majority government with Trudeau as prime minister. Although his reputation was tarnished by an ethics scandal, Trudeau led the Liberals to another victory in the 2019 federal election; however, the…

…the Green Party in the 2015 federal election. Arguably her greatest impact on the contest was her suggestion that, absent a Conservative majority, the New Democratic Party and the Liberals be given a chance to form a coalition government (if they so chose) without going through the constitutional formality of…

In the run-up to the 2015 federal election, Mulcair and the NDP found themselves atop opinion polling in what looked to be a razor-close three-way race among the major parties. But, though Mulcair was seemingly successful during the campaign in convincing Canadians that he was sufficiently “prime ministerial” in bearing,…

…led the party into the 2015 federal election. Although the NDP was the early front-runner, support for it faded: the party finished third with 44 seats, behind the Conservatives with 99 seats, and the Liberals formed a majority government with 184 seats. In October 2017 Mulcair was replaced by Jagmeet…

…the very start of the 2015 federal election campaign in early August, Harper sought to portray Trudeau as “not ready” to lead the country. Trudeau was chided early in the campaign by some for empty sloganeering when he suggested that the economy should be grown not from the top down…