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Conservative Don Stewart was elected in the federal riding of Toronto–St. Paul’s, Ontario, obtaining 590 more votes than her closest rival, Liberal Leslie Church.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Patrick Morrell
Published at 6:05 a.m. EDT
Conservative candidate Don Stewart won the by-election in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto–St. Paul’s, with less than 600 votes ahead of her closest rival, Liberal Leslie Church.
Preliminary results from the 192 polling stations show that Don Stewart received 15,555 votes, 590 more than Leslie Church who received 14,965.
The fight was close until the end between the two main candidates.
The ballot was particularly long since there were a total of 84 candidates in the running.
Although Liberal candidate Leslie Church had been in the lead for most of the evening, the final batch of votes posted around 4:30 a.m. (EDT) gave the seat to Mr. Stewart and allowed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to make a run for it. a breakthrough.
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Liberal candidate Leslie Church gave a speech to supporters during the vote count.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Evan Mitsui
Mr. Stewart’s victory is all the more surprising because the seat had been held by the Liberals for more than 30 years, even when the party was at its lowest, such as during the 2011 federal election which did not had given only 34 liberal deputies to Parliament.
Before Monday’s vote, no Conservative candidate had been competitive in the riding of Toronto–St. Paul’s The party had not won a seat in the Toronto metropolitan area since the 2011 federal election.
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With information from CBC’s John Paul Tasker
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