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By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament

By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament
1 seat in the House of Commons[a]
Seat change summary in
the 45th Canadian Parliament
Party Leader Seats +/–
Conservative Pierre Poilievre 144 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament may be held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2025 federal election and the 46th federal election. The 45th Canadian Parliament has existed since 2025 with the membership of its House of Commons having been determined by the results of the Canadian federal election held on April 28, 2025. The Liberal Party of Canada has a minority government during this Parliament. The Conservative Party of Canada forms the Official Opposition.

One by-election has been held during the 45th Parliament. It took place in the electoral district of:

  • Battle River—Crowfoot, following Conservative MP Damien Kurek's announcement of his pending resignation of his seat on May 2, 2025 to give Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, an opportunity to re-enter parliament after Poilievre lost his seat in the federal election.[1] Kurek officially resigned on June 17, 2025 and the by-election has been called for August 18, 2025.[2]

A writ for a by-election must be dropped no sooner than 11 days and no later than 180 days after the chief electoral officer is officially notified of a vacancy via a warrant issued by the Speaker. Under the Canada Elections Act, the minimum length of a campaign is 36 days between dropping the writ and election day, but must not exceed 50 days and the by-election must occur on a Monday within that time-frame.[3][4]

Summary

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Analysis of byelections by turnout and vote share for winning candidate (vs 2025)
Riding and winning party Turnout Vote share for winning candidate
% Change (pp) % Change (pp)
Battle River—Crowfoot █ Conservative Hold 58.82 -17.67
 
 80.40 -2.44
 

Overview

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Electoral district Date vacated Date writ issued By-election date Previous incumbent Party Cause Winner Party Retained
Battle River—Crowfoot June 17, 2025 June 30, 2025 August 18, 2025 Damien Kurek Conservative Resigned to provide a seat for Pierre Poilievre Pierre Poilievre Conservative Yes

August 18, 2025 by-election

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Battle River—Crowfoot

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A by-election was called in the federal riding of Battle River—Crowfoot, and was held on August 18, 2025, following the resignation of Conservative MP Damien Kurek. Kurek, who secured re-election with over 80% of the vote in the 2025 federal election on April 28, resigned his seat on June 17. This was done to allow Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre an opportunity to return to Parliament through a by-election after he was unseated in the 2025 Canadian federal election.[5][6]

The writ for the by-election was drawn up on June 30, 2025 with the date of the vote set for August 18 in order to avoid a conflict with Alberta Heritage Day earlier in the month.[7]

Canadian federal by-election, August 18, 2025: Battle River—Crowfoot
Resignation of Damien Kurek
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Pierre Poilievre 41,308 80.86 -1.98
Independent Bonnie Critchley 5,018 9.82 –
Liberal Darcy Spady 2,095 4.10 -7.57
New Democratic Katherine Swampy 1,061 2.08 -1.10
United Grant Abraham 757 1.48 –
People's Jonathan Bridges 138 0.27 -1.31
Green Ashley MacDonald 116 0.23 -0.50
Libertarian Michael Harris 103 0.20 –
Christian Heritage Jeff Willerton 92 0.18 –
Independent Sarah Spanier 49 0.10 –
Marijuana Kenneth Kirk 40 0.08 –
Centrist Ahmed Hassan 15 0.03 –
Independent Bert William Westergard 11 0.02 –
Independent Breccan Zimmer 11 0.02 –
Independent Dillon Anderson 10 0.02 –
Independent Nicole Betts 7 0.01 –
Independent Nickolas Meuters-Murphy 7 0.01 –
Independent Diane Prentice 7 0.01 –
Independent Glen Armstrong 6 0.01 –
Independent Caitlyn Baker 6 0.01 –
Independent Lisa Parsons 6 0.01 –
Independent Jason Buzzell 5 0.01 –
Independent Jenny Cartwright 5 0.01 –
Independent Deborah Chalmers 5 0.01 –
Independent William Grant 5 0.01 –
Independent Paul Jones 5 0.01 –
Independent Brennen Perry 5 0.01 –
Independent Anthony Perullo 5 0.01 –
Independent Myles René Laurent St. Pierre 5 0.01 –
Independent Fraser Anderson 4 0.01 –
Independent Rebecca Boyce 4 0.01 –
Independent Pierre Gauthier 4 0.01 –
Independent Preston Hoff 4 0.01 –
Independent Mark Ruthenberg 4 0.01 –
Independent Ceilidh Stewart 4 0.01 –
Independent Danica Boe 3 0.01 –
Independent Aaron Bowles 3 0.01 –
Independent Sarah Burke 3 0.01 –
Independent David Cherniak 3 0.01 –
Independent John Dale 3 0.01 –
Independent Emily Goose 3 0.01 –
Independent Corey Hales 3 0.01 –
Independent Grace Pender 3 0.01 –
Independent Noah Reid 3 0.01 –
Independent David Sader 3 0.01 –
Independent Molly Sun 3 0.01 –
Independent Nicola Zoghbi 3 0.01 –
Independent Alex Banks 2 0.00 –
Independent Stacy Lynn Billingsley 2 0.00 –
Independent Marten Borch 2 0.00 –
Independent Jakeb Brown 2 0.00 –
Independent Annelies Cooper 2 0.00 –
Independent Hannah DeWolfe 2 0.00 –
Independent Elizabeth Dupuis 2 0.00 –
Independent Kenneth Durham 2 0.00 –
Independent Michael Dyck 2 0.00 –
Independent Katherine Dyson 2 0.00 –
Independent Michael Louis Fitzgerald 2 0.00 –
Independent Daniel Gagnon 2 0.00 –
Independent Kerri Hildebrandt 2 0.00 –
Independent Elsie Kipp 2 0.00 –
Independent Chris Kowalchuk 2 0.00 –
Independent Johnson Hon Wa Lee 2 0.00 –
Independent Maria Light 2 0.00 –
Independent Derek Adam MacKay 2 0.00 –
Independent Jeffrey McLean 2 0.00 –
Independent Riley Moss 2 0.00 –
Independent Kimberley Nugent 2 0.00 –
Independent Alexander Panchuk 2 0.00 –
Independent Yagya Parihar 2 0.00 –
Independent Samuel Pignedoli 2 0.00 –
Independent Lorant Polya 2 0.00 –
Independent Jayson Roy 2 0.00 –
Independent Adam Smith 2 0.00 –
Independent Patrick Strzalkowski 2 0.00 –
Independent Callan Wassenaar 2 0.00 –
Independent Jeremy Wedel 2 0.00 –
Independent Hazel Westwood 2 0.00 –
Independent Nicholas Ashmore 1 0.00 –
Independent Michael Bednarski 1 0.00 –
Independent Lilia Boisvert 1 0.00 –
Independent Alain Bourgault 1 0.00 –
Independent Eva Bowering 1 0.00 –
Independent Joshua Brauner 1 0.00 –
Independent Alexandre Brochu 1 0.00 –
Independent Chun Chen 1 0.00 –
Independent Shawn Clendining 1 0.00 –
Independent Lindsay Elaine Shyla Colosimo 1 0.00 –
Independent Dylan Colquhoun 1 0.00 –
Independent Jayson Cowan 1 0.00 –
Independent Michael Davis 1 0.00 –
Independent Geneviève Dorval 1 0.00 –
Independent Jordan Drew 1 0.00 –
Independent Murray Dunham 1 0.00 –
Independent Eric Duong 1 0.00 –
Independent Mark Eccleston 1 0.00 –
Independent Jeremy Edwards 1 0.00 –
Independent Allison Fanjoy 1 0.00 –
Independent Gabriel Finn 1 0.00 –
Independent Hubert Fischer 1 0.00 –
Independent Matthew Gillies 1 0.00 –
Independent Peter Gorman 1 0.00 –
Independent Jacqueline Grabowski 1 0.00 –
Independent Andrew Guenther 1 0.00 –
Independent Blake Hamilton 1 0.00 –
Independent Jason Hodgson 1 0.00 –
Independent Dakota Hourie 1 0.00 –
Independent Uneeb Islam 1 0.00 –
Independent Michael Jones 1 0.00 –
Independent Richard Kenkel 1 0.00 –
Independent Madison Kennedy 1 0.00 –
Independent Abraham Lau 1 0.00 –
Independent Charles Lemieux 1 0.00 –
Independent Robert Marsden 1 0.00 –
Independent Agnieszka Marszalek 1 0.00 –
Independent Geoffrey Meens 1 0.00 –
Independent Sophia Nguyen 1 0.00 –
Independent Pascal Noël 1 0.00 –
Independent Steve Oates 1 0.00 –
Independent Lény Painchaud 1 0.00 –
Independent Lanna Palsson 1 0.00 –
Independent Céline Paquin 1 0.00 –
Independent Meagan Roberge 1 0.00 –
Independent Melanie Roberge 1 0.00 –
Independent Mark Russell 1 0.00 –
Independent Kayll Schaefer 1 0.00 –
Independent Hakim Sheriff 1 0.00 –
Independent Eric Shorten 1 0.00 –
Independent Bradley Stewart 1 0.00 –
Independent Mário Stocco 1 0.00 –
Independent Faith Tabladillo 1 0.00 –
Independent Alex Vallée 1 0.00 –
Independent Dennis Vanmeer 1 0.00 –
Independent Bryan Wang 1 0.00 –
Independent Joshua Wong 1 0.00 –
Independent Yao ZhangLi 1 0.00 –
Independent David Zhu 1 0.00 –
Independent Barry Zukewich 1 0.00 –
Independent Marthalee Aykroyd 0 0.00 –
Independent Line Bélanger 0 0.00 –
Independent Michel Bélanger 0 0.00 –
Independent Jeani Boudreault 0 0.00 –
Independent Jeffery Brazeau 0 0.00 –
Independent Bo Cai 0 0.00 –
Independent Cameron Campos 0 0.00 –
Independent Nicolas Champagne 0 0.00 –
Independent Jaël Champagne Gareau 0 0.00 –
Independent Claude Cordon Pichilla 0 0.00 –
Independent Tristan Dell 0 0.00 –
Independent Gerrit Dogger 0 0.00 –
Independent Abel Erazo-Ibarra 0 0.00 –
Independent Tracy Farber 0 0.00 –
Independent Brian Farrenkopf 0 0.00 –
Independent Thomas Fitzgerald 0 0.00 –
Independent Connor Fullerton 0 0.00 –
Independent Jordan Gerrard 0 0.00 –
Independent Eric Gilmour 0 0.00 –
Independent Laurie Goble 0 0.00 –
Independent David Patrick Greene 0 0.00 –
Independent Nicolette Gross 0 0.00 –
Independent Kathleen Gudmundsson 0 0.00 –
Independent Richard Haley 0 0.00 –
Independent Kazimir Haykowsky 0 0.00 –
Independent Iriella Hicks 0 0.00 –
Independent Loren Hicks 0 0.00 –
Independent Seyed Hosseini Lavasani 0 0.00 –
Independent Glendyn Howse 0 0.00 –
Independent Ryan Huard 0 0.00 –
Independent Jack Jean-Louis 0 0.00 –
Independent Derek Jouppi 0 0.00 –
Independent Erich Jurgens 0 0.00 –
Independent Elza Kephart 0 0.00 –
Independent Dannielle Konkle 0 0.00 –
Independent Solomon Krygier-Paine 0 0.00 –
Independent Andrew Kulas 0 0.00 –
Independent Samuel Lafontaine 0 0.00 –
Independent Alain Lamontagne 0 0.00 –
Independent Eric Laverdure 0 0.00 –
Independent Jocelyn LeBlanc-Courchaine 0 0.00 –
Independent Alexander Lein 0 0.00 –
Independent Renée Lemieux 0 0.00 –
Independent Jeffrey Leroux 0 0.00 –
Independent Litma Kai Ching Leung 0 0.00 –
Independent Cedric Ludlow 0 0.00 –
Independent Jennifer Margaret Mackenzie-Miller 0 0.00 –
Independent Nicolas Maltais 0 0.00 –
Independent Kevin Manzano 0 0.00 –
Independent Eric March 0 0.00 –
Independent Devin McManus 0 0.00 –
Independent Robert Melting Tallow 0 0.00 –
Independent Joanne L Metters 0 0.00 –
Independent Nicholas Mew 0 0.00 –
Independent Mark Moutter 0 0.00 –
Independent Rob Mumford 0 0.00 –
Independent Molly Munn 0 0.00 –
Independent Sam Nabi 0 0.00 –
Independent John Francis O'Flynn 0 0.00 –
Independent Clifford Pine 0 0.00 –
Independent Brian Ramchandar 0 0.00 –
Independent Spencer Rocchi 0 0.00 –
Independent Wallace Richard Rowat 0 0.00 –
Independent Barry Rueger 0 0.00 –
Independent Chris Scrimes 0 0.00 –
Independent Charles Douglas Sleep 0 0.00 –
Independent Julie St-Amand 0 0.00 –
Independent Pascal St-Amand 0 0.00 –
Independent Andi Sweet 0 0.00 –
Independent Corinne Unrau 0 0.00 –
Independent Tyson Warner 0 0.00 –
Independent Simon John Edwin Wedel 0 0.00 –
Independent Michaiah Williams 0 0.00 –
Independent Brian Wishart 0 0.00 –
Independent Michael Wisniewski 0 0.00 –
Independent Belinda Christine Young 0 0.00 –
Total valid votes 51,085 99.59 –
Total rejected ballots 211 0.41 -0.19
Turnout 51,296 59.83 -16.66
Eligible voters 85,736 –
Conservative hold Swing -5.90

Notes

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  1. ^ All casual vacancies

References

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  1. ^ Levitz, Stephanie; Haws, Emily (May 2, 2025). "Pierre Poilievre to run for Alberta seat after losing riding". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  2. ^ "Roles - Damien C. Kurek - Current and Past - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada". www.ourcommons.ca. Archived from the original on May 20, 2025. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  3. ^ "Journalists vying for seat in Commons shows politics changing: Spector". The Hill Times. August 12, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
  4. ^ "A Federal Seat is Vacant in Battle River–Crowfoot". Elections Canada. June 18, 2025.
  5. ^ "Conservative MP resigns seat so Poilievre can run in Alberta byelection". CTV News. The Canadian Press. June 17, 2025. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  6. ^ "UPDATE: MP Damien Kurek to resign, allowing Poilievre to run in Battle River-Crowfoot by-election". Nelson Star. May 2, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  7. ^ Levesque, Catherine (June 29, 2025). "Carney set to call mid-August Alberta byelection, clearing Poilievre's path to a new seat". National Post. Retrieved June 29, 2025.