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Conservative leader runs for safe seat in parliament after Canada election defeat

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Pierre Poilievre speaks to his supporters after losing the Canadian federal election on 29 April 2025 in Ottawa, Canada. Photograph: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images

Canada’s federal conservative leader will have a second chance of winning a seat in parliament when residents of a rural Alberta district cast their ballots in a closely watched byelection on Monday.

Pierre Poilievre’s bid to take the safe seat of Battle River-Crowfoot comes four months after the Conservatives’ defeat in April’s federal election, in which the party leader lost the riding he had held for more than 20 years.

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