Hamilton’s election results offers more of the same
Published October 23, 2019 at 2:37 am
The dust has settled on the 43rd general election across Canada and it has resulted in a minority government for the Liberals.
The dust has settled on the 43rd general election across Canada and it has resulted in a minority government for the Liberals.
While the Liberals dominated the Greater Toronto Area, in Hamilton it’s more of the same as the Liberals won two seats, the NDP won two other seats and the Conservative held onto the one seat they had going into the election.
Nationally, the Liberals were elected in 157 seats. The Conservatives won 121 seats, the Bloc Quebecois walked away with 32 seats, the NDP won 24 seats, the Greens won three and one Independent was elected: Vancouver Granville’s Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Here are the newly elected (or reelected) MPs-elect for Hamilton.
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Flamborough-Glanbrook
Hamilton Centre
Former Hamilton city councillor Matthew Green kept this traditionally NDP seat with the NDP, replacing David Christopherson who decided not to run for another term.
Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
Hamilton Mountain
Richard Plett, the Rhino Party candidate who was featured in an inthehammer.com article, got 109 votes, or just about 0.2 per cent.
Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas
Filomena Tassi, who was elected as the first MP in this new riding back in 2015, was the Seniors Minister in the last Parliament. Based on election night results, she will have another chance to go to Ottawa and possibly return to cabinet.
Just down the road in Niagara Region, Liberal incumbents Chris Bittle (St. Catharines), Vance Badawey (Niagara Centre) and Conservative Dean Allison (Niagara West) were reelected in their respective ridings. In Niagara Falls, where veteran Tory MP Rob Nicholson retired, voters there elected Conservative Tony Baldinelli.
So it looks like the great Rhino awakening will have to wait, as Plett and Rocchi combined barely get half a percentage of votes cast for a party. But all kidding aside, not much has changed in terms of party standings for Hamilton’s representation, asides from Green getting elected.
The former city councillor follows in the footsteps of another black Hamiltonian who once represented this city in Parliament: the late Lincoln Alexander, a former lieutenant governor of Ontario and Canada’s first black MP from 1968 to 1980.
With the NDP possibly holding the balance of power for this Liberal minority government, expect Jagmeet Singh to have some serious demands, on policies such as climate change or electoral reform, from Justin Trudeau. And with Hamilton’s economy in a precarious state, with strong voices like Green and Duvall, expect some noise will be made on their end about helping the local economy in the city.
Although Sweet managed to get reelected, his narrow win is indicative of the changing demographics of certain rural areas experiencing population growth, thereby changes in voting patterns.
Take a look at nearby Milton, where veteran Tory MP Lisa Raitt went down in spectacular fashion to Liberal Adam van Koeverden, who won with 51 per cent of the vote. In nearby Kitchener Conestoga, which includes townships in Waterloo Region as well as outlying suburbs of Kitchener, Liberal candidate Tim Louis managed to oust the longtime Tory incumbent by around 300 votes.
Perhaps it would take one more election for Stebbing to get over the finish line next time.
Cover photo courtesy of Justin Trudeau Twitter account
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