NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has claimed victory in the Burnaby South byelection tonight, providing him with a chance to lead his party from within the House of Commons.
Conservative candidate Scot Davidson has already claimed victory in the federal byelection in York-Simcoe, while Liberal Rachel Bendayan is projected to take the Montreal riding of Outremont away from the NDP.
Results from Burnaby South in B.C., show NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh leading with 37.7 per cent of the vote to the Liberals’ 26.4 per cent and the Conservatives’ 22.3 per cent, with 120 of 196 polls reporting.
In Burnaby South, former Conservative MP Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada is trailing with 11.7 per cent of the vote.
The Conservatives are leading in the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe with 52.5 per cent of the vote to the Liberals’ 30.5 per cent and the NDP’s 7.3 per cent with 107 of 136 polls reporting.
In Outremont — where the NDP was looking to hold on to the seat of the party’s former leader, Thomas Mulcair — Bendayan is leading with 42.2 per cent of the vote to the NDP’s 26.3 per cent and the Conservatives at 6.3 per cent with 118 of 170 polls reporting.
The Outremont contest was seen as one of two critical tests for the NDP in this round of byelections, as the party looked to secure a Commons seat for leader Singh in B.C. while hanging on in Montreal. Singh is up against Liberal candidate Richard T. Lee, a former B.C. MLA, and Conservative candidate Jay Shin, a lawyer and newcomer to politics, in the Burnaby South race.
Liberal candidate Rachel Bendayan addresses supporters after winning a by-election in the Montreal riding of Outremont on Monday, February 25, 2019. (Paul Chiasson)
The NDP has struggled since Singh became leader in 2017. The party now sits at 14 per cent nationally, 11 per cent in Quebec and 16 per cent in B.C., according to CBC’s poll tracker.
Julia Sanchez, a former international development executive, was the NDP’s candidate in Outremont. Bendayan, is a lawyer and former party staffer, who ran against Mulcair in the last election, finishing second with 33.5 per cent of the vote to Mulcair’s 44 per cent.
Conservative candidate Scot Davidson is projected to win his federal byelection in the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe. (CBC)
While the Conservatives usually have a tough time winning when the NDP is in a weakened position, the party was not expected to lose its seat in York-Simcoe, Ont., formerly held by Peter Van Loan.
The former leader of Stephen Harper’s government in the Commons, Van Loan stepped down from his seat in September and announced that he was retiring from politics.
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Van Loan won York Simcoe in the 2015 federal election with more than 50 per cent of the vote to the Liberals’ almost 38 per cent.
Businessman Davidson beat out Liberal candidate Shaun Tanaka, a geography professor at Queen’s University and the University of Toronto, who also ran for the Liberals in the 2015 election.
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