Election night’s biggest winners and losers

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party won an overwhelming majority government on Monday, taking 184 seats in the House of Commons. The Conservative Party, led by Stephen Harper, held onto 99 seats to become the Official Opposition, while the New Democrats took a beating to finish with much fewer MPs returning to Parliament Hill.

Here’s a look at some of the notable winners and losers in Canada’s 42nd general election.

Conservative cabinet ministers who won’t be returning:

Finance Minister Joe Oliver
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander
Environment Minister Leonna Aglukkaq
Associate Minister of National Defence Julian Fantino
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea
Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford

Conservative MPs who will be returning:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Defence Minister Jason Kenney
Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson
Health Minister Rona Ambrose
Public Works Government Services Minister Diane Finley
President of the Treasury Board Tony Clement
House Leader Peter Van Loan
Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Steven Blaney
Minister of International Trade Ed Fast
Minister of Labour and Status of Women Kellie Leitch
Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz
Transport Minister Lisa Raitt

In their sweep to victory, the Liberal Party picked up some high-profile MPs.

Seamus O’Reagan: The former Canada AM host became one of only a handful of openly gay MPs in Canada’s history by defeating NDP incumbent Ryan Cleary St. John’s South-Mount Pearl.

Bill Blair: The former Toronto police chief, representing the Liberals in his first run at political office, defeated incumbent NDP MP Dan Harris in Scarborough Southwest.

Andrew Leslie: The retired lieutenant-general who served in Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia defeated Conservative incumbent Royal Galipeau.

Among the 59 seats the NDP lost were some well-known names.

Olivia Chow: The former Toronto city councillor, NDP MP and Toronto mayoral hopeful has been in public office for 24 years, most of them alongside her late husband, Jack Layton. Chow was defeated by Liberal incumbent Adam Vaughan in the newly created Toronto riding of Spadina-Fort York.

Pat Martin: The foul-mouthed long-time NDP MP was ousted by Liberal candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette. Martin has, over the years, had to apologize many times for offensive comments like in this statement from September in which he regrets his “intemperate language” for calling Green Party candidate Don Woodstock a “son of a bitch” and Ouellette a “political slut” who was “full of s–t.”

Other notables

Elizabeth May: The Green Party leader holds on to her party’s only seat in Parliament, in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands.

Gilles Duceppe: The Bloc Québécois leader, who lost his seat in 2011 and returned to lead his party this past June, was once again defeated by NDP incumbent Hélène Laverdière in the Montreal riding of Laurier Sainte-Marie.

Sean Fraser: The Liberal Party candidate won in the riding of Central Nova, held by the Conservatives for more than 40 years, 18 of them by Peter MacKay before he stepped down earlier in 2015.