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The people have spoken and Justin Trudeau is the new prime minister of Canada. Trudeau and the Liberal Party won a majority government by taking 184 ridings, which is 54.4 per cent of the ridings in the country. The Liberals received 39.5 per cent of all votes (6,930,146). The Conservative Party was second with 99 ridings (29.3 per cent) and had 31.9 per cent of all votes (5,600,496 votes). The NDP was third with 44 ridings (13.0 per cent) and had 19.7 per cent of all votes (3,461,262). Locally, Richard Cannings of the NDP will be the very first South Okanagan-West Kootenay Member of Parliament (MP) after picking up 37.2 per cent (24,823) of the votes for the region. Marshall Neufeld of the Conservatives (29.9 per cent) and Connie Denesiuk of the Liberals (28.1 per cent) were not far behind in second and third respectively. Green Party candidate Samantha Troy ended up with 4.3 per cent, while independent Brian Gray had 0.6 per cent. Voter turnout for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay was 73.57 per cent (66,727 of 90,694 registered electors). Cannings celebrated the win with a large group of supporters at a hotel in Penticton. He told the Gazette that it had been a long campaign but he was elated to have won. “It was close but we just steadily pulled away,” he said. “We were doing fine in the Okanagan but it was very close. As we got polls in from Grand Forks and the Kootenays we started to pull away. I got happier and happier as the evening went on.” Cannings said it was important that they had good support from throughout the riding. “We were cautiously optimistic going into the night and certainly happy with how it turned out,” he said. About 50 people packed the NDP office on Second Avenue in Grand Forks to watch the election results pour in. The supporters were elated when Cannings was confirmed the winner. Office manager and NDP riding association member Darwin Benson said everyone in the office was ecstatic. • See ELECTION page A3
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Bored Room, Yellow Door pick up top awards Community Futures Boundary hosted the 2015 Business Excellence and Community Awards in Grand Forks on Thursday, Oct. 15. (Photo above) Lyle Burt (left),chair of Community Futures, presented R.J. and Tom Lesher of the Bored Room Bistro with the award for Business of the Year East Boundary); (Photo right) Della Mallette (left) of Black Press presented The Yellow Door Boutique’s Heather Smith with the award for Retail Excellence. See story on page A3.
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