All four major party leaders retain seats

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 | 12:35 AM ET

CBC News

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper easily carried his riding of Calgary Southwest as all leaders of the four the major parties retained their seats on Monday.

Although Liberal support dwindled in Quebec, Paul Martin held on to the Montreal-area riding of Lasalle-Émard.

NDP Leader Jack Layton fended off the challenge of Liberal candidate Deborah Coyne, while Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe carried Laurier-Sainte-Marie.

NDP leader Jack Layton, left, and wife Olivia Chow celebrate at their headquarters in Toronto, Monday, Jan. 23. (CP Photo/Aaron Harris)

As part of the Conservatives' gains in Quebec at the expense of the Liberals, Maxime Bernier took the riding of Beauce and Lawrence Cannon won the west Quebec riding of Pontiac.

Peter MacKay, the Conservatives' deputy leader, easily held on to the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova.

Anne McLellan, the Liberal deputy prime minister, fell in Edmonton Centre as the Conservatives swept all the seats in Alberta.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe enters for his election night speech, Monday, Jan. 23 in Montreal. (CP Photo/Jacques Boissinot)

Liberal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, who was hit with allegations of leaks in his office on income trusts, retained the riding of Wascana in Regina. Goodale is again the only Liberal in Saskatchewan.

Scott Brison was re-elected in the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants. Brison, who defected from the Conservatives in December 2003 to sit with the Liberals, was the minister of public works when the election was called in late November.

Human resources minister Belinda Stronach, who also quit the Conservatives to sit with the Liberals, held on to her seat in Newmarket-Aurora.

Other Liberal ministers re-elected included:

• Irwin Cotler, justice minister, Mount Royal.
• Bill Graham, defence minister, Toronto Centre.
• John McCallum, revenue minister, Markham-Unionville.
• Joe McGuire, minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Egmont.
• Geoff Reagan, minister of fisheries and oceans, Halifax West.
• Andy Scott, minister of Indian affairs, Fredericton.

Ministers fall

Ministers going down to defeat included house leader Tony Valeri in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. He lost to the NDP's Wayne Marston.

Reg Alcock, the head of the Treasury Board, lost in Winnipeg South to the Conservative's Rod Bruinooge.

Heritage Minister Liza Frulla fell to the Bloc in Jeanne-Le Ber, while Jacques Saada, the minister for Quebec economic development, lost to the Bloc in Brossard-La Prairie.

Olivia Chow, the wife of Jack Layton, took the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the NDP, defeating Tony Ianno, the Liberal minister of state for families and caregivers. Aileen Carrol, the minister of international cooperation, fell in the central Ontario riding of Barrie to the Conservative's Patrick Brown.

Agriculture minister Andy Mitchell fell in the Ontario riding of Parry Sound Muskoka to Tony Clement of the Conservatives.

Clement, Jim Flaherty in Whitby-Oshawa and John Baird in Ottawa-West Nepean are three former Ontario Conservative ministers who will now be joining Stephen Harper in Ottawa.

Among other notable candidates:

• Liberal Michael Ignatieff won the Toronto-area riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore.
• Liberal Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut in space, lost in the Quebec riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges to the Bloc's Meili Faille.
• Former NDP leader Alexa McDonough won the riding of Halifax for the fourth time.

In Vancouver Centre, Liberal Hedy Fry beat the NDP's Svend Robinson, who was trying to mount a political comeback. Robinson quit politics in April 2004, after he admitted stealing a ring at an auction.