Conservatives won big last night, in an election nobody noticed

By Jeremy Lott

Published April 21, 2016 4:53am ET

Conservatives won big last night, in an election nobody noticed — After the victory of Trudeau, Tuns said, "the media focused on the fact that the Conservative/Progressive Conservative brand had not one government in Canada at the federal or provincial level." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

While most eyes were turned to mere primaries in New York Tuesday night, a territory almost five times the size of New York changed hands politically. The ruling liberal party was shown the door and conservatives won a majority, and a record-breaking one at that, for the first time since 1999.

Why haven’t you heard of it?