When is the Canada legislative election 2029?

Polling day is 2029-10-15, not yet officially confirmed.

When will the final result of the House of Commons race be official?

Expected between 2029-10-23T12:00:00Z and 2029-12-01T04:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. The final act is the return of the writ: s.313(1): the returning officer, 'without delay after the sixth day that follows the completion of the validation of results or, if there is a recount, without delay after receiving the certificate' of the judge, declares the candidate with the most votes elected on the back of the writ; s.317: the Chief Electoral Officer publishes each member's name in the Canada Gazette as the returns arrive. 'Final' here means all 343 returns received and gazetted. Precedent 2025 (polling 28 Apr): first Gazette notice of returns 9 May 2025 (Extra No. 7, day 11); last returns (NWT, Nunavut, and the recount districts Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore and Terra Nova—The Peninsulas) notice dated 23 May, published 26 May 2025 (Extra No. 13, day 28). Statutory chain without a recount: validation by day 7, or day 28 with the maximum adjournments, plus six days — day 34 (19 Nov 2029); a recount adds a request within four days (s.300(1)), a date fixed within four days after it (s.300(3)) and the recount itself, which has no fixed length. The opening (Tue 23 Oct 08:00 EDT, the earliest a return can follow a validation on 16 Oct) is an ESTIMATED floor. The window ERRS LATE: it closes at the end of Friday 30 Nov 2029 EST (day 46), 18 days past the 2025 last notice and 12 days past the no-recount statutory maximum. A contested-election application to a court is possible within 30 days of Gazette publication (s.527; 2025: Terrebonne, filed 23 May 2025 and later annulled with a by-election), but no court must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage.

Where are the official House of Commons results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Elections Canada (https://www.elections.ca/).

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Canada legislative election 2029

Name: Canada legislative election 2029
Start: 2029-10-15
Location: Canada

Polling day Mon, 15 Oct 2029 Date not yet official. Counted by Elections Canada. Times are Toronto time; hover for UTC.

23 Oct – 30 Nov 2029

Final result window, derived from the last election. Treat as final after Fri 30 Nov, 23:59 Toronto time.

Polls close: Mon 15 Oct, 22:00
First count by: Tue 16 Oct, 08:00
Counted by: Elections Canada
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: elections.ca

Count stages House of Commons, 343 seats

14 Oct28 Oct11 Nov25 Nov

Election-night count

15–16 OctElection-night count: Mon 15 Oct, 19:00 → Tue 16 Oct, 08:00, estimate.

Intermediate count

16 Oct – 12 NovIntermediate count: Tue 16 Oct, 08:00 → Mon 12 Nov, 23:59, announced.

Final result

23 Oct – 30 NovFinal result: Tue 23 Oct, 08:00 → Fri 30 Nov, 23:59, precedent.

announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateToronto time. Polls close in 1110 days.

Government. Days from polling day to the post-election swearing-in of the cabinet: 2025 (15), 2019 (30), 2021 (36), from pm.gc.ca releases; 2015 (16, change of government) from Wikipedia, not checked. An incumbent Prime Minister needs no new appointment, so a market must define the event (a new ministry, or a Prime Minister sworn in) and set its deadline beyond the longest precedent. Not before Mon 15 Oct. Precedents: 15 and 30 and 36 days from polling day.

Stage windows and their sources 4 stages, each cited

Election-night count
Mon 15 Oct, 19:00 → Tue 16 Oct, 08:00
estimate

DATE (tentative): Canada Elections Act s.56.1(2): 'each general election must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election'. The last polling day was 28 Apr 2025, so the fourth calendar year after it is 2029; October 2029 starts on a Monday (1, 8, 15), so the third Monday is 15 Oct 2029. s.56.2: the Chief Electoral Officer may recommend another day if that Monday conflicts with a day of cultural or religious significance or a provincial or municipal election, and the alternate day must be Tuesday 16 Oct or Monday 22 Oct 2029; the order cannot be made after 1 Aug 2029. Snap-election risk: s.56.1(1) leaves the Governor General's power to dissolve Parliament untouched (the 2025 election itself followed a dissolution on 23 Mar 2025, EC report ch. 2); polling day is then fixed by proclamation 36 to 50 days after the writs (s.57(1.2)(c)). POLLS: s.128(1): 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. in the Newfoundland, Atlantic and Central zones, 9:30-9:30 Eastern, 7:30-7:30 Mountain, 7:00-7:00 Pacific; s.128(2): while the rest of Canada is on daylight saving time, Saskatchewan votes 7:30-7:30 (Central-zone districts) — as in the 2025 EC release. Daylight saving time runs until Sunday 4 Nov 2029, so on 15 Oct: Newfoundland 20:30 NDT = 23:00 UTC; Atlantic 20:30 ADT = 23:30 UTC; Eastern 21:30 EDT, Central 20:30 CDT, Saskatchewan 19:30 CST and Mountain 19:30 MDT = 01:30 UTC on 16 Oct; Pacific 19:00 PDT = 02:00 UTC. Yukon (UTC-7 all year) voted 7 a.m.-7 p.m. local in 2025 (CBC North, 28 Apr 2025, not checked on elections.ca), also 02:00 UTC. pollsCloseUtc is the LAST close, 02:00 UTC, the convention of the Australia, Russia and US models. Counting starts at each poll when it closes (advance-poll counting may start one hour earlier with the CEO's approval, EC report ch. 3) and preliminary results appear on the ENR site as statements of the vote are phoned in. The window opens at the Newfoundland close and closes at 08:00 EDT Tuesday — an ESTIMATE, not a published time; in 2025 EC reports that results distribution continued through election night. Preliminary, unofficial results only.
Replaced on the live page by the intermediate count from Tue 16 Oct, 08:00.
Intermediate count
Tue 16 Oct, 08:00 → Mon 12 Nov, 23:59
announced

Validation of results: s.62(c): each returning officer's Notice of Election fixes 'the date and time, not later than seven days after polling day, for the validation of results' (by Mon 22 Oct 2029); s.293(1): the returning officer validates the results from the original statements of the vote; s.293(2)-(3): if ballot boxes are missing it is adjourned for up to seven days, and further adjournments may not exceed two weeks in total — so the latest validation is day 28, Mon 12 Nov 2029 (window closes at the end of that day, EST). The validated figures replace the preliminary ones on the same ENR district page ('Results Validated by the Returning Officer', with a Validation Date). Precedent 2025 (EC report ch. 3): 341 of 343 districts validated by 5 May (day 7); Northwest Territories 9 May and Nunavut 16 May (day 18) after weather delays; Terrebonne was validated on 1 May (day 3). The opening (Tuesday 08:00 EDT) is an ESTIMATED floor. Validated results are official but not yet final: a judicial recount (automatic if the margin is under 1/1000 of votes cast, s.300; or on an elector's application within four days, s.301) can change them — four recounts in 2025, one of which changed the winner.
Final result
Tue 23 Oct, 08:00 → Fri 30 Nov, 23:59
precedent

The final act is the return of the writ: s.313(1): the returning officer, 'without delay after the sixth day that follows the completion of the validation of results or, if there is a recount, without delay after receiving the certificate' of the judge, declares the candidate with the most votes elected on the back of the writ; s.317: the Chief Electoral Officer publishes each member's name in the Canada Gazette as the returns arrive. 'Final' here means all 343 returns received and gazetted. Precedent 2025 (polling 28 Apr): first Gazette notice of returns 9 May 2025 (Extra No. 7, day 11); last returns (NWT, Nunavut, and the recount districts Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore and Terra Nova—The Peninsulas) notice dated 23 May, published 26 May 2025 (Extra No. 13, day 28). Statutory chain without a recount: validation by day 7, or day 28 with the maximum adjournments, plus six days — day 34 (19 Nov 2029); a recount adds a request within four days (s.300(1)), a date fixed within four days after it (s.300(3)) and the recount itself, which has no fixed length. The opening (Tue 23 Oct 08:00 EDT, the earliest a return can follow a validation on 16 Oct) is an ESTIMATED floor. The window ERRS LATE: it closes at the end of Friday 30 Nov 2029 EST (day 46), 18 days past the 2025 last notice and 12 days past the no-recount statutory maximum. A contested-election application to a court is possible within 30 days of Gazette publication (s.527; 2025: Terrebonne, filed 23 May 2025 and later annulled with a by-election), but no court must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage.
Government formed
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precedent

No statutory step: the Prime Minister and ministry stay in office through the election; after it the Governor General appoints or keeps a Prime Minister who can command the confidence of the House, and the new ministry or cabinet is sworn in at Rideau Hall, usually before all returns are in. Precedent (Prime Minister's Office news releases, pm.gc.ca): 13 May 2025 'Prime Minister Carney announces new Ministry' (day 15 after 28 Apr 2025); 20 Nov 2019 'Prime Minister welcomes new Cabinet' (day 30 after 21 Oct 2019); 26 Oct 2021 'Prime Minister welcomes new Cabinet' (day 36 after 20 Sep 2021). In all three the incumbent Prime Minister continued. The last change of government after a general election, the Trudeau ministry sworn 4 Nov 2015 (day 16 after 19 Oct), is from Wikipedia, not checked. No expectedFrom is set because the cabinet can be sworn before the final result.

Results sources 10 pages, 0 can answer a results question

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enr.elections.ca/National.aspx	results-live	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
elections.ca/content.aspx	results-final	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-2.01/FullText.html	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
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gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2025/2025-05-26-x13/html/extra13-eng.html	timetable	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_Canadian_federal_election	see-also	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
enr.elections.ca	results-index	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	not checked yet
enr.elections.ca/DownloadResults.aspx	open-data	results index	no (results section without an election code)	not checked yet
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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-02: Canada Elections Act ss.56.1, 56.2, 57, 62, 128, 293-301, 313, 317, 524-527 (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca, current to 2026-09-21); Elections Canada Report on the 45th General Election ch. 2-3 and 28 Apr 2025 news release (elections.ca); ENR results site and download (enr.elections.ca); Canada Gazette Part I Extra Nos. 7 and 13, 2025 (gazette.gc.ca); pm.gc.ca cabinet releases 2019, 2021, 2025 (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)). Last verified 2026-10-02.

Questions and answers

When is the Canada legislative election 2029?: Polling day is 2029-10-15, not yet officially confirmed.
When will the final result of the House of Commons race be official?: Expected between 2029-10-23T12:00:00Z and 2029-12-01T04:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. The final act is the return of the writ: s.313(1): the returning officer, 'without delay after the sixth day that follows the completion of the validation of results or, if there is a recount, without delay after receiving the certificate' of the judge, declares the candidate with the most votes elected on the back of the writ; s.317: the Chief Electoral Officer publishes each member's name in the Canada Gazette as the returns arrive. 'Final' here means all 343 returns received and gazetted. Precedent 2025 (polling 28 Apr): first Gazette notice of returns 9 May 2025 (Extra No. 7, day 11); last returns (NWT, Nunavut, and the recount districts Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore and Terra Nova—The Peninsulas) notice dated 23 May, published 26 May 2025 (Extra No. 13, day 28). Statutory chain without a recount: validation by day 7, or day 28 with the maximum adjournments, plus six days — day 34 (19 Nov 2029); a recount adds a request within four days (s.300(1)), a date fixed within four days after it (s.300(3)) and the recount itself, which has no fixed length. The opening (Tue 23 Oct 08:00 EDT, the earliest a return can follow a validation on 16 Oct) is an ESTIMATED floor. The window ERRS LATE: it closes at the end of Friday 30 Nov 2029 EST (day 46), 18 days past the 2025 last notice and 12 days past the no-recount statutory maximum. A contested-election application to a court is possible within 30 days of Gazette publication (s.527; 2025: Terrebonne, filed 23 May 2025 and later annulled with a by-election), but no court must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage.
Where are the official House of Commons results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Elections Canada (https://www.elections.ca/).