Justin Trudeau to form a majority government with around 40 percent of the popular vote across Canada. Trudeau has said that he advocates a system where the distribution of seats is more in line with the popular vote on a Canada-wide basis, to be achieved by a new type of ballot that allows voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. However, Trudeau has said that he is open to proportional representation, which is more likely to produce coalition governments. In December 2015, the government announced that an all-party parliamentary committee would be formed in early 2016 to consider other options.
Electoral history of Justin Trudeau losing the general election of 2011. Trudeau currently ranks fourteenth out of twenty-three prime ministers for time in office, being in office for . Trudeau is the eighth prime minister from Quebec, the others being Sir John Abbott, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. He is also the fifth francophone prime minister, the others being Laurier, St. Laurent, Pierre Trudeau, and Chretien. Trudeau was first elected to the House of Commons in 2008, at age 35. The Liberals were in opposition after the 2008 and 2011 general elections. Under Liberal leader