Trudeau was elected through a preferential ballot based on a points system that gave each of the 308 ridings in the country 100 points, for a total of 30,800 points.
Trudeau received 80 per cent support or 24,668 points — he only needed to obtain 50 per cent plus one, or a total of 15,401 points.
MP Joyce Murray came in second, as expected, with 3,130 points, while former Toronto-area MP Martha Hall Findlay came in third with 1,760 points.
Former cabinet minister Martin Cauchon was fourth with 815 points, Toronto lawyer Deborah Coyne fifth with 214 points, and former retired military officer Karen McCrimmon sixth with 210 points.