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Conservative Lisa MacLeod danced with supporters as she celebrated victory in the new Nepean riding.
“Welcome to Bluehaven!!” she yelled Thursday night as about 100 supporters at her campaign headquarters screamed.
The Conservatives will usher in a new era of prosperity for Ontario, she promised.
The longtime Conservative MPP was not expected to face a serious fight in Nepean.
She won the Nepean-Carleton seat in a byelection in 2006, and held onto it by comfortable margins in three subsequent elections.
The boundary was redrawn for this election, creating the new riding of Nepean. It contains the western portion of the former Nepean-Carleton.
MacLeod took nothing for granted and campaigned hard, knocking on about 13,000 doors in the riding.
There was a celebratory air at her campaign headquarters all evening in a former restaurant on Woodroffe Avenue, as volunteers sipped on free wine and beer and enjoyed snacks.
There was a problem with the electronic voting system at one poll in the riding that would force a manual count of ballots at the Nepean Sportsplex, said campaign manager Joe Varner, MacLeod’s husband.
PC incumbent for Nepean, Lisa MacLeod, celebrates her victory with tons of supporters at her headquarters in Barrhaven Thursday evening (June 7, 2018).
At deadline, NDP candidate Zaff Ansari was in second place.
Ansari’s troops at the Barrhaven Heart and Crown managed to wrestle at least one television away from the hockey game and on to election results coverage.
Ansari, a Muslim, has been observing Ramadan throughout the campaign and hasn’t been eating food or drinking water from dawn to dusk to fast.
Ansari has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa and is an IT entrepreneur.
During his door-to-door campaigning, he said, he found the NDP promises of affordable child care and the introduction of prescription drug and dental plans resonated with voters.
Liberal candidate Lovina Srivastava and her crew were huddled in their tiny office on Woodroffe Avenue.
Srivastava, like Ansari, commented on the “positive” nature of the campaign but said she was caught up in the province’s call for change.
“It’s a matter of the Liberals being in power for 15 years,” Srivastava said. “The people of Ontario have spoken and we have to accept the results.”
She is an engineer by training who founded Emprove Service Inc., an Ottawa-based technology consultancy, after working as a senior manager at BlackBerry and the Department of National Defence. She is also an artist who founded a local non-profit performing arts group, and is the former chair of the school council at John McCrae Secondary School.
MacLeod is a prominent member of the Conservative caucus and briefly entered the 2015 race to become the Ontario PC leader but then dropped out.
The Green Party candidate, James O’Grady, is a social media entrepreneur and founder of unpublishedottawa.com, a current affairs website, as well as a substitute teacher and community leader.
The three other candidates in the riding are Mark A. Snow for the Libertarians, Derrick Lionel Matthews, running for the “Party of Objective Truth,” and Raphael Louis under the “None of the Above” banner.
— With files from Wayne Scanlan
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“Welcome to Bluehaven!!” she yelled Thursday night as about 100 supporters at her campaign headquarters screamed.
The Conservatives will usher in a new era of prosperity for Ontario, she promised.
The longtime Conservative MPP was not expected to face a serious fight in Nepean.
She won the Nepean-Carleton seat in a byelection in 2006, and held onto it by comfortable margins in three subsequent elections.
The boundary was redrawn for this election, creating the new riding of Nepean. It contains the western portion of the former Nepean-Carleton.
MacLeod took nothing for granted and campaigned hard, knocking on about 13,000 doors in the riding.
There was a celebratory air at her campaign headquarters all evening in a former restaurant on Woodroffe Avenue, as volunteers sipped on free wine and beer and enjoyed snacks.
There was a problem with the electronic voting system at one poll in the riding that would force a manual count of ballots at the Nepean Sportsplex, said campaign manager Joe Varner, MacLeod’s husband.
PC incumbent for Nepean, Lisa MacLeod, celebrates her victory with tons of supporters at her headquarters in Barrhaven Thursday evening (June 7, 2018).
At deadline, NDP candidate Zaff Ansari was in second place.
Ansari’s troops at the Barrhaven Heart and Crown managed to wrestle at least one television away from the hockey game and on to election results coverage.
Ansari, a Muslim, has been observing Ramadan throughout the campaign and hasn’t been eating food or drinking water from dawn to dusk to fast.
Ansari has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa and is an IT entrepreneur.
During his door-to-door campaigning, he said, he found the NDP promises of affordable child care and the introduction of prescription drug and dental plans resonated with voters.
Liberal candidate Lovina Srivastava and her crew were huddled in their tiny office on Woodroffe Avenue.
Srivastava, like Ansari, commented on the “positive” nature of the campaign but said she was caught up in the province’s call for change.
“It’s a matter of the Liberals being in power for 15 years,” Srivastava said. “The people of Ontario have spoken and we have to accept the results.”
She is an engineer by training who founded Emprove Service Inc., an Ottawa-based technology consultancy, after working as a senior manager at BlackBerry and the Department of National Defence. She is also an artist who founded a local non-profit performing arts group, and is the former chair of the school council at John McCrae Secondary School.
MacLeod is a prominent member of the Conservative caucus and briefly entered the 2015 race to become the Ontario PC leader but then dropped out.
The Green Party candidate, James O’Grady, is a social media entrepreneur and founder of unpublishedottawa.com, a current affairs website, as well as a substitute teacher and community leader.
The three other candidates in the riding are Mark A. Snow for the Libertarians, Derrick Lionel Matthews, running for the “Party of Objective Truth,” and Raphael Louis under the “None of the Above” banner.
— With files from Wayne Scanlan
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