A judicial recount of federal election results has landed the federal Liberals another seat, won by a single vote, nearly two weeks after the federal election.
The Quebec riding of Terrebonne has reportedly flipped back to the Liberals, with candidate Tatiana Auguste winning by only one vote.
This brings the Liberal tally to 170 seats, just two short of the 172 required for a majority government.
The riding was originally called for the Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste. However, a validation process later shifted the result in favour of the Bloc Québécois incumbent candidate, Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, by just 44 votes.
After the recount, Auguste received 23,352 votes, while Sinclair-Desgagné had 23,351.
The validation process, which found the discrepancy originally, is a routine verification of numbers reported on election night.
Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Stéphane Perrault announced Wednesday that due to the short 44 difference margin of votes a judicial recount would take place.
According to the announcement, a judicial recount is automatically triggered if there is a 0.1 per cent difference between the two top candidates in a riding.
The recount was carried out on Thursday by Justice Danielle Turcotte of the Superior Court of Quebec in the riding.
Recounts are still taking place in three federal ridings, which ended in extremely close tossups between Conservatives and Liberals.
In Ontario’s Milton East–Halton Hills South riding, Liberal candidate Kristina Tesser Derksen won against incumbent Conservative Parm Gill by just 29 votes after the validation process. The results are now scheduled for a recount on May 12.
In the Ontario riding of Windsor–Tecumseh–Lakeshore, Conservative candidate Kathy Borelli won against the Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk by 77 votes, pending a recount. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Liberal candidate Anthony Germain won over the Conservative Jonathan Rowe by just 12 votes.
Elections Canada has not reported results for either of these ridings.
This is a developing story.