More than 900,000 students voted throughout the country
The Canada Conservative Party won the student vote.
Civix, the organization that directs the vote, confirmed the results on Monday night.
Pierre Pailievre’s party won a minority, taking 165 of the 343 seats in the House of Commons.
The liberals, led by Mark Carney, won 145 seats, forming the official opposition.
In general, 36.4 percent of participating students voted for conservatives, and 31.7 percent voted for liberals.
More than 900,000 students participated in 5,900 schools, in each province and territory.
The CBC Kids News collaborator, Matthew Hines, visited Central Technical School in Toronto, Ontario, to see how the process works.
Look at the video to see how adult results are compared to student results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quoqgcs0caq
More students’ votes
The Québécois block won 18 seats and 2.1 percent of popular or general vote.
The NDP (new Democratic Party) won 13 seats and 14.5 percent of popular votes.
The Green Party won two seats and 7.5 percent of the popular vote.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and the leader of the Green Party Jonathan Pedneault were the only two leaders who lost their seats.
The results show “an important change of 2021, when the liberals and the PND dominated the students’ panorama of the students,” said Lindsay Mazzucco, executive director of Civix and co -founder of student votes.
A student of the Central Technical School in Toronto, Ontario, verifies a voter on school election day, April 25. (Image credit: India Mcalister/CBC)
How the student’s vote works
Students of degrees 4 to 12 voted last week for their local candidate.
The choice is directed by students, who sit at the tables and verify the names of the lists as their students vote.
The organizers deliver the tickets, then the voters are behind the cardboard supports to mark their tickets. This maintains your private votes.
Then, the voters put their ballots in the boxes, and the organizing students count the ballots and report the results to Civix.
Mazzucco said the experience is intended to inspire students to vote after turning 18.
Students participate in the student vote at Bayview Middle School in North York, Ontario, on April 28. (Image credit: Lisa Fender/CBC)
“We are delighted with the level of participation of schools and students throughout the country, especially given the context of a quick choice,” Mazzucco said in an email to CBC Kids News.
“[The results] Offer a look at what matters most to young Canadians and how future voters are thinking about the country’s direction. “
The results could change during the next day more or less as there are more late votes.
Civix said he will update the numbers on Tuesday afternoon with any late result.
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Upper image credit: India McAlister/CBC, graphic design of Philip Street/CBC
