Liberals hold on to 4 of 5 'toss up' ridings in the Greater Toronto Area
CBC
The Liberals managed to hold on to — and even to retake — some of the most narrowly contested ridings in the Greater Toronto Area during the federal election on Monday.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole had clearly hoped to break through in the "905," so named for the area code many voters in the region share, visiting several 905 ridings multiple times during the 36-day campaign.
It was a sensible approach. After all the ballots were cast in the 2019 federal election, only a few hundred to a few thousand votes separated the Liberal and Conservative candidates in several 905 ridings.
Heading into election night Monday, polling aggregator 338Canada.com had five of the region's 30 federal ridings projected as "toss ups" between the Liberals and Tories.
The Liberals won, or were projected to win, in all but one.
[Note: The vote counts cited in this story are as of early Tuesday morning. They are expected to change as more polls report and as mail-in ballots are tallied in the coming days. As of writing, the CBC News Decision Desk had not called the final result in King–Vaughan.]
That included Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill, previously held by incumbent Conservative candidate Leona Alleslev. A former Royal Canadian Air Force captain, Alleslev was originally elected as a Liberal in 2015 before crossing the floor to join the Conservatives in 2018.
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