(Ottawa) Reversal of situation in Terrebonne. The outgoing deputy Nathalie Sinclair Desgagné finally won the election with 44 votes in advance on her liberal opponent Tatiana Auguste who had first been declared winner. The liberals therefore move away a little more than a majority.
Posted at 3:20 p.m.
The Bloc Québécois was awaiting official results due to errors which would have been made during the counting of the vote on Monday. Elections Canada had given the victory to Tatiana Auguste with 35 votes in advance in this blocist fortified castle.
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A verification carried out by the ballot director finally demonstrated that it was the opposite. It therefore costs a siege to the Liberals of Mark Carney who end up with 168 deputies in the House of Commons. It takes 172 to obtain a majority.
The constituency of the northern crown of Montreal has been blocist for almost 30 years, with the exception of a mandate from the new Democratic Party (NPD) during the Orange wave in 2011.
However, it will automatically have a judicial count, therefore supervised by a judge since the result is below 60 votes. The ballot director has four days to present his request.
This difference must be less than a thousandth of the total votes in the constituency to trigger this recount. In Terrebonne, a total of 60,130 people voted.
At least another district in the country should be subject to automatic judicial count. These are Terra Nova-the peninsulas in Newfoundland and Labrador where the Liberal Anthony Germain obtained 12 votes more than his conservative rival Jonathan Rowe.
The result was also tight in the riding of Nunavut where the outgoing deputy Lori Idlout managed to keep this neo-democratic seat with 77 votes in advance on her liberal opponent Kilikvak Kabloona.
With Marie-Ève Morass, The press
