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Polls have closed in Newfoundland and Labrador | - News

The Liberals are set to keep six of seven seats in Newfoundland and Labrador but are losing St. John’s East to the NDP as early results continue to roll in.Polling sation in Vancouver on Monday, October 21, 2019. (Maggie MacPherson/CBC)The Liberals look set to take 15 seats in Atlantic Canada — a region the party swept in 2015 — as federal election results continue to roll in. The Liberals are keeping six of seven seats in Newfoundland and Labrador but are losing St. John’s East to the NDP as early results continue to roll in.With nearly a third of polling stations reporting in St. John’s East, CBC is projecting that the NDP’s Jack Harris will return to the House of Commons after being defeated in the 2015 federal election. CBC is projecting that, aside from securing the remaining six seats in the province, the Liberals also will hold on to the seats of three high-profile MPs in New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Nova Scotia. Lawrence MacAulay will retain his seat in Cardigan, P.E.I and Dominic LeBlanc will keep his seat in Beauséjour and Geoff Regan will also keep his seat in Halifax West, according to CBC’s projections. Liberal Serge Cormier is expected to hold his seat in Acadie -Bathurst, while Bernadette Jordan is also projected to take South Shore-St. Margarets for the Liberals. The Liberals are also projected to win Darrell Samson’s seat in Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, Darren Fisher’s seat in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Sean Fraser’s seat in Central Nova. CBC News is projecting that the Conservatives will win in Tobique-Mactaquac and New Brunswick Southwest, where John Williamson, who was defeated in that riding in 2015, looks set to return to Ottawa to join the Conservative caucus. The Conservatives’ Rob Moore is also projected to take Fundy Royal. In 2015, the Liberals swept all 32 seats in the four Atlantic provinces. Polls will close in Quebec, Ontario and the Prairies at 9:30. p.m. ET. Elections Canada says roughly 27.4 million people are eligible to vote at one of the approximately 20,000 polling places across the country. While most voters will cast their ballots today, around 4.7 million Canadians did so in advance polls last weekend — a 29 per cent increase over 2015. The first ballots were cast at 8:30 a.m. local time in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, and the last will be cast at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET) in British Columbia. There were 55,515 Canadian expats registered to vote, and a final tally shows 31,798 — a record number — have marked ballots. Leaders voting In Quebec, three party leaders have cast their votes and are waiting to hear results. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is running in the Papineau riding in Montreal, Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois is also in the Montreal area, in Beloeil-Chambly, and People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier is in Beauceville, southeast of Quebec City. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is running in Regina-Qu’Appelle and his headquarters are in Regina. Scheer cast his vote at 6:30 p.m. ET. The other two major party leaders have ridings in British Columbia: the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh in Burnaby South and the Green Party’s Elizabeth May in Saanich-Gulf Islands. Singh voted in advance on Oct. 13; May voted in her riding before heading back to party headquarters in Victoria. Poll closing times Here are the voting hours for each time zone. All times are local. Newfoundland — 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Atlantic — 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Eastern — 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Manitoba — 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories — 7:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Pacific — 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. This means polls in Newfoundland and Labrador will close at 7 p.m. ET — and all polls will be closed by 10 p.m. ET. (There are no longer results blackout rules in Canada, so first results for areas where polls are closed will be available starting shortly after 7 p.m. ET.)

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