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2015 FEDERAL ELECTION
NDP’s Cannings wins South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
The red wave that swept across the country last night didn't flow into the newly formed South Okanagan-West Kootenay (SOWK) riding. This area remained orange for a fourth straight federal election while the Liberals took hold of most of Canada. NDP Richard Cannings was declared the winner after garnering 18,262 votes from 239 of the 276 polling stations. By 9:45 p.m. Cannings had arrived to the celebration at his Penticton headquarters. “I pledge to not only take your concerns to Ottawa, but also to seek out your ideas on how we can this a better place to live,” Cannings told the crowd. “Together we can build a better country and a Canada we can be proud of once again.” Liberal Connie Denesiuk held second place with 14,270 votes, followed by Conservative Marshall Neufeld with 14,012, Samantha Troy from the Green Party, 2,159 and Independent Brian Gray, 329. MARK BRETT PHOTO By the time B.C. voting stations closed Richard Cannings celebrated his victory at his Penticton office last night as the NDP won at 7 p.m. the Liberals already had a near the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding. majority government. Following the east to west sweep, status quo is good enough and the NDP was Conservative Marshall Neufeld, with Justin Trudeau was named the next Prime said they’ll balance the books and then Samantha Troy from the Green Party and Minister fifteen minutes later with 172 maybe fulfill their promises later. People Independent Brian Gray trailing. seats and counting. want change and they want it now. And During the course of the night, the “We’re thrilled to see that Canada’s that’s what Justin Trudeau offered.” NDP lead widened, and after 150 polls, back on the right track,” Liberal candiThe country-wide Liberal roll ended Cannings pulled ahead by over 1,200 date Connie Denesiuk told Dan Walton of in the South Okanagan-West Kootenay votes. Notably at the half way point, the Penticton Western News. as Cannings took an early lead and main- Denesiuk already had 6,700 more votes “He’s the only leader that offered real tained about 600 votes over Liberal Connie than the Liberals received in the 2011 change, now. The Conservatives said the Denesiuk. Behind her by about 600 votes election.
Meanwhile, the Conservative candidate accepted the results locally as well as nationally. “It’s clear the people have made their choice in this riding and I look forward and fully expect he will be a good representative of this riding,” said Neufeld in a short speech to campaign supporters. While the new electoral boundaries didn't affect the local outcome, the new Kootenay Columbia Riding had a very tight race, with Conservative David Wilks battling NDP Wayne Stetski. Final results were unavailable at press time. Electoral boundaries in the West Kootenay and Okanagan have changed many times throughout the years, but no matter where the Greater Trail area has fallen in the mix, its Member of Parliament has been either NDP or Conservative. The exception is Jim Gouk, a threeterm MP who held the seat for the Reform Party from 1993 to 2000 in what was then the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding. A boundary change moved the region into the West Kootenay-Okanagan riding that year, with Gouk retaining the position for the Canadian Alliance Party until 2003, and finishing his political career as a Conservative in 2006. Since then, Atamanenko won the seat by a large margin, serving as NDP MP for B.C. Southern Interior until his retirement earlier this year. Notably, there's never been a Liberal MP since the Kootenay West riding was created in 1914. (Kootenay West was abolished in 1987 when it merged into Kootenay West-Revelstoke).
Liberal wave washes across the country with majority win THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Just watch him. Ready or not, a Trudeau is returning to 24 Sussex Drive, completing the first father-son dynasty in Canada’s federal government history. Justin Trudeau, 43, will become Canada’s next prime minister after his party steamrolled to a stunning majority victory Monday night following the longest and most expensive general election in modern times.
The Liberal party, which was en route to claiming more than 180 seats in newly expanded 338-seat House of Commons, becomes the first ever to vault directly from third party status to government. And Trudeau returns to his childhood home at 24 Sussex
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Drive, where he was the firstborn of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who served as prime minister for almost 16 years before retiring in 1984. Trudeau, who became Liberal leader in 2013, faced more than two years of Conservative attack ads before defeating Harper, including a
barrage of “just not ready” ads that were so ubiquitous that school-age children could recite them. During the October crisis of 1970, Pierre Trudeau famously told an inquiring reporter “Just watch me,” when asked how far he would go in limiting civil liberties to combat separatist terrorists. The elder Trudeau went on to shape much of the modern Canadian state that Prime Minister Stephen Harper came
to power in 2006 in part to remake. With the magnitude of the Conservative party loss still sinking in, the Conservative leader - who called the extraordinarily long, 78-day election, after almost 10 years in power - is expected to step down as party leader. And NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who’d aspired to lead Canada’s first NDP federal government, See SEVERAL, Page 2
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