Harper wins Canada vote

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will return to office with more seats in Parliament, though still not a majority, after winning yesterday's election just as the financial crisis spreads north from the U.S, reports Bloomberg.
Harper's Conservative Party won 143 districts, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada. Stephane Dion's Liberal Party won 77, followed by the Bloc Quebecois with 49 and the New Democratic Party with 37. Harper held 127 seats in the 308-seat legislature before the vote was called.