Oberster Gerichtshof annulliert Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl in Terrebonne Riding (mit einer Stimme von den Liberalen gewonnen)

Good, our system is not meant to deal with victory’s with a 1 vote margin of error, this should’ve been a re-run from the start.

This has to be the most bitterly contested seat in modern Canadian election history. This young MP is gonna have quite the story to tell her grandkids someday.

If its any consolation, Carney is expect to call by-elections soon, this seat should be one of them, and considering the spike in approval ratings for the PM and his party post Davos speech, she should solidly win her seat by a wider margin.

I’m happy the Supreme Court came out with this decision, it seems like an obvious ruling. 

I am more surprised that it needed to go to the top court and that lower courts couldn’t figure this out. This should have been an easy call for Elections Canada from the hop.

Some strong liberal cope in the comment section here. Had this been a CPC MP getting dislodge by a Liberal none of this excuse making would be happening.

> After the April 28 election, a woman in the Terrebonne riding revealed that she had mailed in her vote for the Bloc, but discovered it was never counted after her special ballot was returned due to an error on the envelope’s address

Elections Canada made mistakes. Probably with no malice intended but nonetheless the supreme court is correct in the descion here. 

Wow. Surprised it took this long. I feel like everyone knew they made a mistake and this was weird they didn’t cancel it sooner

Summary:

The Supreme Court of Canada has officially annulled the results of the 2025 federal election in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne. Following a judicial recount last spring, Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste was narrowly declared the winner over Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by a margin of just a single vote.

The legal dispute centered on an uncounted mail-in ballot from a Bloc Québécois supporter. The special ballot was returned to the voter and never tallied due to a postal code error on the return envelope provided by Elections Canada. Although a lower court previously ruled the mistake a simple „human error,“ Sinclair-Desgagné’s legal team successfully argued that it constituted a significant electoral irregularity that directly impacted the outcome of the exceptionally close race.

Shortly after hearing the arguments, the Supreme Court justices invalidated the election results and vacated the Terrebonne seat. This decision officially overturns the previous Superior Court ruling, meaning a by-election will need to be held to determine the riding’s Member of Parliament.

No surprise here, though this seems to have gone under the radar for a lot of people. With Edmonton-Riverbend and now Terrebonne, it’s shaping up to be a lot more interesting than those Toronto byelections.

I think the Liberals will be hard pressed to hold this seat though, their numbers in Quebec have gotten worse, and suburban trends in the riding haven’t moved quick enough to offset that. But the Liberals have historically done quite well in byelections, excluding the trainwreck that was 2024, so they won’t go down without a fight.

Absolutely the correct decision. It was blatantly obvious from the start that the lower court ruling was incorrect.

I am curious to read the final opinion. If I remember the original news coverage at the time, the election worker who made the error realized his mistake well before the cutoff date but didn’t alert his supervisors because the number of ballots returned seemed correct to him. For me that goes beyond the type of human error present in any election and makes the issue one of gross incompetence and negligence that irrevocably altered the outcome.