India, Aug. 19 -- Canada's Parliament will have familiar figure back as Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was elected to the House of Commons from a rural constituency in the province of Alberta in a by-election on Monday.

Poilievre comfortably won the contest for Battle River-Crowfoot over his rivals. Within an hour of ballots being cast, Canadian networks projected that Poilievre had swept to victory with his closest rival, independent candidate Bonnie Critchley garnering a fraction of his level of support.

The trend became obvious once polls closed on Monday evening and the first results trickled in as Poilievre appeared to be cruising with over 80% of the vote share.

Advance polls for the by-election witnessed a higher tur...