Top 33 ‘safest seats’ in Canada won by Conservatives in 2019, with top 13 winning by a 70 per cent margin or more

Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau won his seat in Papineau, Que., with just under 32 per cent of a margin, a riding that he’s held since he first ran for politics in 2008, when he narrowly defeated Bloc Québécois incumbent Vivian Barbot.

Conservative incumbents Damien Kurek, left, Shannon Stubbs, and Martin Shields. The three Conservative incumbents, who are running for re-election, won their ridings by the largest margins in the 2019 election, and are hoping to repeat that success in 2021. Photographs courtesy of Twitter, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

September 13, 2021

There were 109 candidates who won their seats in Parliament with at least a 25-per-cent-plus margin of victory in the 2019 election, or just under one-third of the House of Commons. And after crunching the numbers, The Hill Times found that all of the top 33 safest seats in Canada were won ...

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