C Cheryl Gallant was again elected the MP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, soundly defeating four other opponents.
When the ballots were counted, the Conservative candidate garnered just under 46 per cent of the vote with 26,195 votes. This is MP Gallant’s sixth straight mandate since first elected in 2002.
Liberal candidate Jeff Lehoux was second, with 18,666 votes cast for him, taking 32.6 per cent of the votes.
Independent candidate Hec Clouthier, who was very hopeful of taking out the candidate who ousted him in 2002, ended up in third spot. He took 11.1 per cent of the votes, with 6,359 votes cast in his favour.
In fourth and fifth spots were New Democratic Party candidate Dan McCarthy with 8.6 per cent of the votes with 4,893 cast in his favour and Green Party candidate Stefan Kleitsch with 1,105 votes or 1.9 per cent of the vote.
What’s different this time is MP Gallant’s Conservatives are no longer in power.
The Liberal party won a majority of seats in the house, which means Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister-elect. He will be Canada’s 22nd prime minister. His father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was Canada’s 15th prime minister. He was prime minister from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980, to June 30, 1984.
It was announced Justin Trudeau will be sworn in as our 22nd prime minister on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The Liberals have 184 seats in the house followed by the Conservatives, who will be the Official Opposition, with 99 seats. The New Democratic Party has 44 seats, followed by the Bloc de Quebecois with 10 seats the Green Party with 1. Leader Elizabeth May was the one Green Party candidate elected.
