By the end of tonight, we should have a pretty good idea what the next Canadian government will look like, but it may take a few days in ridings where there may be a tie.

Elections Canada spokesperson, Marie-France Kenny, says counting the mail-in ballots doesn’t begin until tomorrow or Wednesday. She explains that before counting the mail-in ballots, workers have to check the outer envelope, which has a number that identifies the voter.
Then, it needs to be verified that the voter didn’t also cast a ballot elsewhere. If that is confirmed, then the inner envelope is put in a voter box to be counted.

This process begins tomorrow (Tues), after the advance poll and election day ballots have been counted. In the 2019 election, about 55,000 people took advantage of mail-in voting, but Kenny estimates this time around there are around 1.8-million.

There are 338 electoral districts and Saskatchewan has 14 of them and Elections Canada cites that over 27-million people are registered to vote.

At dissolution, the Liberals held 155 seats in the House of Commons, while the Conservatives had 119, the Bloc Québécois 32, the New Democrats 24 and the Green Party two. Five seats are held by independents.