The first polls in Canada’s federal election have closed in Newfoundland and Labrador as millions of Canadians cast their ballot in the 2025 federal general election.
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Newfoundland and Labrador was the first province where polls closed on Monday at 8:30 p.m. local time (7 p.m. Eastern or 4 p.m. Pacific time).
Election workers count special ballots, ballots cast by Canadians outside their ridings, at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre on the day of the federal election, in Ottawa, on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Polls will close in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia shortly after, at 8:30 p.m. Atlantic Time (7:30 p.m. Eastern/ 4:30 p.m. Pacific).
In Quebec, most of Ontario and Nunavut — which follow Eastern Standard Time — polls will close at 9:30 p.m. Eastern or 6:30 p.m. Pacific.
A person walks into a polling station on the day of the federal election in Ottawa on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Manitoba and the parts of Nunavut northwestern Ontario that follow Central Time will see polls close at 8:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. Eastern or 6:30 p.m. Pacific).
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Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and part of Nunavut will see polls close at 7:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. Eastern or 6:30 p.m. Pacific).
Polls will close last in British Columbia and Yukon, at 7 p.m. local time (10 p.m. Eastern).
The federal election was punctuated by record-breaking early voter turnout in addition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and his repeated attacks on the country’s sovereignty with calls to make Canada the 51st state as recently as Monday.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party co-Leader Jonathan Pedneault spent the past month traversing the country vying for votes.
The Liberal party held a four-point lead heading into Monday, according an Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News that was released Sunday.
Preliminary early voting turnout figures from Elections Canada estimate that 7.3 million Canadians voted early, a 25 per cent increase from the 5.8 million voters who cast their ballots early in the 2021 general election.
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