WATCH: Liberals win North Vancouver-Capilano byelection, retain majority

Liberal Braeden Caley will be the next member of parliament for North Vancouver-Capilano.

The 39-year-old former deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Mark Carney bested his closest competitor in the by-election — Conservative candidate Stephen Curran — by a two-to-one margin.

Carney's Liberals swept Monday's by-elections, winning in the Ontario riding of Beaches-East York and Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec as well. As a result, they have enough seats to retain a majority government.

Following his victory, Caley was introduced by fellow Liberal MP Gregor Robertson at the party's election night event in central Lonsdale.

In his inaugural speech as MP, Caley vowed to work with his Liberal colleagues as well as across party lines to get things done.

"I know how government works — and often sometimes how it doesn’t work well enough for people," he said. "I’ve seen that up close."

At the end of the evening, Sitka Media caught up with Curran and the third-place finisher, Green Party candidate Shelley Luce.

"I feel great," the latter said, smiling in her campaign office on Lonsdale. "We did a great job. We ran an incredible campaign. We went from 1% of the vote to 10% of the vote, and we have people voting Green this time who've never voted Green before."

Luce expressed excitement about the future of the party, noting that she "reached a lot of people who probably were Liberal voters."

"I'm thinking about how the Green Party is going to be coming back even stronger and more vibrant," she added.

When asked what her message is to Caley, Luce emphasized the need for collaboration.

"We need to work together on the issues that the community really cared about in this campaign," she said. "The things that resonated were getting more different types of housing, like co-cop housing and nonprofit land trusts, or getting much, much better, cleaner, faster, cheaper public transit for people. Those are the things that I heard people saying. Climate disasters and preparedness — people don't want a $40 billion oil pipeline. These are the things that came back to me over and over again at the doorsteps and that I hope Braeden Caley heard loud and clear."

Curran told Sitka Media he felt "deflated," but added that he and his team "raised a lot of important issues in our community, and got a lot of traction on some stuff."

"There were a lot of Persians here tonight," he said, motioning around the space he'd rented out for an election night party, "and we were talking about a lot of the security issues in our community that they're concerned about. I think it did get a bit of an airing nationally, and I think that people are aware of some of the concerns that they have."

Curran shared Luce's sentiments on what Caley needs to do, saying he told him as much earlier in the evening.

"We've got to band together and collaborate across all parties," Curran said. "I do hope that parliament resumes early so that all parties can sort of weigh into a national strategy to deal with the tariffs coming from the United States — and I hope that the Liberal government is open to collaborating with the opposition parties and trying to move Canada forward."

Curran added that he will not be running in the next election.