The Conservatives won 167 seats in Monday鈥檚 41st federal election, giving Canada its first majority government since 2004.
Stephen Harper becomes only the third Conservative prime minister to win three elections in a row. The other two were Sir John A. Macdonald and John Diefenbaker.
The NDP surged to second place with 102 seats, with 58 of those in Quebec. The Liberals were reduced to third place for the first time in party history, with 34 seats, and the Bloc Quebecois was all but wiped out in Quebec, winning just four seats.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May made history by becoming the first Green MP elected in Canada. She won in Saanich-Gulf Islands.
At least two Ontario seats will be subject to recounts, as the winning margin in both was less than 100 votes. One seat in Northern Ontario was won by 14 votes, the other in Toronto was won by 26 votes.
Both were won by Conservative candidates over Liberal incumbents.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe both lost their seats and have resigned the leadership of their parties.
In B.C., the Conservatives won 21 seats, the NDP won 12, the Liberals two and May took the sole Green seat.
The closest race in B.C. was in Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, where Randall Garrison of the NDP had 26,198 votes, with Conservative Troy DeSouza getting 25,792 votes 鈥� a margin of 406 votes.
