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After a provincial election in February, we had a quick turnaround for the federal election.
Milton has been split in half to create two separate ridings this time around. ‘Milton East’ will pair with ‘Halton Hills South’ for one of them, and the other will see ‘Milton West’ pair with ‘Burlington North’. Read more on the new ridings here.
The results are below, provided by Elections Canada:
Burlington North—Milton West
- Adam Van Koeverden – Liberal Party of Canada (37,155 votes – 52.7%)
- Nadeem Akbar – Conservative Party of Canada (31,172 votes – 44.3%)
- Naveed Ahmed – New Democratic Party (1,507 votes – 2.1%)
- Charles Zach – People’s Party of Canada (607 – 0.9%)
70,441 of 95,109 registered electors voted, for 74.06% turnout. Elections Canada this does not include electors who registered on election day.
Milton East—Halton Hills South
- Kristina Tesser Derksen – Liberal Party of Canada (32,130 votes – 48.0 %)*
- Parm Gill – Conservative Party of Canada (32,101 votes – 48.4 %)
- Muhammad Riaz Sahi – New Democratic Party (1,034 votes – 1.6 %)
- Susan Doyle – Green Party of Canada (671 votes – 1.0 %)
- Walter J. Hofman – People’s Party of Canada (472 votes – 0.7 %)
- Shahbaz Mahmood Khan – Independent (175 votes – 0.3 %)
* After a validation process, Kristina Tesser Derksen has won the riding by 29 votes.
READ – Milton East – Halton Hills South recount happening this week
66,459 of 90,340 registered electors voted, for 73.57% turnout. Elections Canada says this does not include electors who registered on election day.
We reached out to all 10 candidates in Milton’s two ridings. Six of them agreed to be interviewed. Hear those interviews here.
On the national level, Prime Minister Mark Carney has retained his spot, winning his first official election. He won his riding of Nepean, making him the second ever Prime Minister to represent the Ottawa-based riding – the first being Sir John A. McDonald.
It’ll be a minority government, with the Liberals falling just short of the majority line at 169* ridings. The Liberal Party of Canada also won the popular vote, receiving 8,564,200 votes (43.7%), compared to the Conservatives in second with 8,086,051 votes (41.3%).
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wasn’t able to win his own riding of Carleton, losing to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy by just over 4000 votes (roughly 5%).
As the Liberals needed 172 to obtain their first majority win since the 2015 election, we’ll now wait to see if any agreements will be made, similar to the one between the NDP and Liberal Party in the previous election.
We’ll continue to keep you updated should anything be announced.
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