Canada’s Liberals inch toward majority, but one vote could decide key contest

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station on election day, 28 April, in Ottawa, Canada. Photograph: Dave Chan/AFP/Getty Images

Canada’s Liberal party has inched closer to a majority government after a judicial recount found the party had won an electoral district by just a single vote. But a voter has also claimed her ballot wasn’t counted, throwing the result once more into disarray.

Officials at Elections Canada at the weekend finished a recount for the Quebec district of Terrebonne, where the incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné appeared to have beaten her Liberal challenger Tatiana Auguste.