The number of candidates running in an August byelection the Conservative Party of Canada hopes will restore its leader’s position in the House of Commons has surpassed 200. Elections Canada has listed 209 confirmed candidates in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot as of Monday morning, only seven of which have political party affiliations. Monday is the close of nominations for the Aug. 18 byelection, and a complete list of candidates will be available Wednesday, the elections agency said.

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Voters in District 2, Georgetown-Pownal, will head to the polls on Monday, Dec. 8 in a provincial byelection to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Steven Myers. The deadline for candidate nominations is Friday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. The byelection results won't change the balance of power in the province. Premier Rob Lantz's Progressive Conservatives have a majority in the 27-seat P.E.I. Legislative Assembly, with 19 seats compared to four for the Liberals and three for the Green Party.

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Voters in the riding of Chicoutimi will head to the polls next month. A byelection is set for Feb. 23. The National Assembly seat was left vacant last September after Andrée Laforest quit provincial politics to run for mayor in Saguenay. Her bid was unsuccessful. The announcement for the Chicoutimi byelection comes a little less than a week after François Legault announced he was stepping down as the premier of Quebec and the leader of Coalition Avenir Québec (the CAQ), the party he founded.

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Quebec’s government has announced that a hotly contested byelection northeast of Montreal will take place Aug. 11. The Arthabaska riding has been held by the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2012, but polls indicate the governing party is set to lose its stronghold to the Parti Québécois or Conservatives. Conservative Leader Éric Duhaime has put his name forward, hoping to win what would be his party’s only seat in the legislature.

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Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault is planning to run for a seat in the House of Commons in an upcoming byelection in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grace--Westmount riding.

The 32-year-old ran on a joint ticket to share the party leadership in November with longtime member of Parliament Elizabeth May.

The party's constitution has not yet been changed to make the pair co-leaders so Pedneault is the deputy leader.

The Notre-Dame-de-Grace--Westmount seat was created in 2015 and the area has long been considered a Liberal stronghold.

It was last held by Liberal MP Marc Garneau, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

A victory for Pedneault in the June 19 vote would see him join May and Mike Morrice as Green Party MPs in Ottawa.

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## UK Political Turmoil Deepens: Market Braces for Instability Amid Cabinet Mutiny and Shifting Electoral Landscape **Key Takeaways:** 1. **Heightened Political Instability:** A brewing cabinet mutiny against the Prime Minister signals a critical loss of authority, fueling profound uncertainty for investors and likely weighing heavily on UK asset classes, particularly Sterling and government…