The Pollcast: Reading the byelection tea leaves

Silver linings abounded in Monday's three federal byelections, with each of the major parties and even the minor ones having something to celebrate in the results.

The New Democrats secured a seat for their leader, Jagmeet Singh. The Liberals stole a riding away from the NDP in Quebec and the Conservatives increased their support in a GTA stronghold. The Greens and the People's Party each hit double digits in one of the three contests as well.

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That's the good news. But there was bad news, too.

Both the Liberals and Conservativessaw their support slip in two out of three byelections. The NDP lost Outremont, the scene of the party's first breakthrough into Quebec in 2007 that foreshadowed the Orange Wave of 2011. And where the Greens and Maxime Bernier's party didn't hit double digits, they weren't a factor whatsoever.

So what to make of the glass-half-full, glass-half-empty results?

To dissect the results,the CBC's John Paul Tasker and Hannah Thibedeaureturn withhost and CBC polls analyst ric Grenier on this week's episode of thePollcastpodcast.

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