Canada's ruling Liberals won Monday's election, but it is not yet known whether they will be able to form a government on their own, CTV and CBC television forecasts said.
Prime Minister Mark Carney asked voters for a strong mandate to resist tariffs and US President Donald Trump's threats to annex the country.
CTV and CBC report that the Liberals have not yet secured the 172 MPs needed for a supermajority.
The results will have to wait for some time and may depend on the outcome of the vote in the westernmost province of British Columbia, where the polls are the last to close.
The Liberals, who have been in power for the past nine years, won or led in 133 constituencies, and the Conservatives in 93.
Parliament has 343 seats and if Carney wins only a relative majority he will have to negotiate with smaller parties.
The election results are a heavy defeat for conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who focused his campaign on domestic politics and a promise to fix a country that had been "corrupted" by the liberals.
Neither the Liberal nor Conservative campaigns were available for comment on the television screenings.
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