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       Special ballot officers count special ballots from national, international, Canadian Forces and incarcerated electors at Elections Canada's distribution centre in Ottawa on election night of the 44th Canadian general election, on Sept. 20.

       Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

       A clutch of close-run ridings, including a nail-biting photo finish in Vancouver, Granville, are still waiting for mail ballots to be counted to determine the final result.

       But Elections Canada says it expects the vast majority of the more than 850,000 postal votes that were not counted by Monday night to be tallied by the end of today.

       Three new ridings that were still too close to call on election night – Fredericton, Northwest Territories and Yukon – have now been declared for the Liberals after the count wrapped up.

       But in a number of knife-edge races, candidates are holding their breath to see if mail ballots confirm the results of in-person votes.

       In Edmonton Griesbach, where The Canadian Press is projecting Blake Desjarlais delivered a notable victory for the NDP over the Conservatives – mail ballots are still being counted.

       A record number of people voted by mail in the election.

       Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will form another minority government, but what comes next? Globe chief political writer Campbell Clark and politics reporter Laura Stone discuss the challenges ahead for Trudeau and O’Toole’s continuing leadership of the Conservatives. The Globe and Mail

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