The Liberals officially flipped Terrebonne after a hard-fought campaign aimed at fending off a serious challenge from the Bloc Québécois.

MP Tatiana Auguste was greeted by a very cheerful crowd at Liberal headquarters when she officially secured her seat in Ottawa.

“I can’t wait to celebrate with my team,” she told reporters in French as she walked in for her victory speech.

“It’s been a long year.”

After winning by a one-vote margin in 2025, Auguste’s initial months as MP were overshadowed by a Supreme Court challenge that eventually forced a rematch in Terrebonne.

This time, she won by a much wider margin of about 700 votes.

Asked by a reporter how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s popularity factored into her victory, Auguste said “I could not tell you exactly.”

In her speech, the newly elected MP said she was “thrilled to return to the largest Quebec Liberal caucus ever,” and said that with her seat in Ottawa, “Terrebonne is now at the decision table.”

Inside Bloc Québécois headquarters on Monday, the atmosphere was initially festive but turned increasingly somber as the Liberal lead widened and the number of uncounted polls dwindled.

In her concession speech, former MP and candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné said she was proud of a campaign she described as one of hope.

“It took three times more campaign spending limits, a parade of ministers, and a Liberal convention organized at our doorstep, with some 4,500 party faithful converted into a ground team for the election… and they only beat us by a couple of hundred votes.”

In a wink to the Supreme Court win that gave her a second chance to hold on to her seat, Sinclair Desgagné said “it took a sovereignist to teach the rest of Canada a lesson on democracy.”

Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet is set to deliver remarks later this morning.