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Mike Farnworth wasn’t about to drop any hints about renewing his leadership aspirations two days after his party’s shocking defeat. The five-time PoCo MLA declined to speculate on the future of NDP party leader Adrian Dix, or whether he would again choose to seek the party’s top job should Dix step down. Farnworth ran against Dix for the party’s leadership in 2011 and lost by just under 700 votes. “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said Thursday.
“Right now, we’ve got to meet as a caucus, Adrian has got to decide what he’s going to do and then we’ll go from there.” Farnworth described his party’s showing on Tuesday as “incredibly disappointing,” but offered little in the way of an explanation. “The media, the pollsters, the pundits and even on the doorstep, the expectation was that we were going to form government, so it’s a big shock,” he said. “That’s something that we’re going to have to look at over the coming weeks. We’ll meet as a caucus and I’m sure this election is going to be dissected 25 different ways to Sunday.”
As for his own riding, Farnworth cruised to a win Tuesday night, capturing 10,588 votes, or 52.65 per cent. His main chalTo see Farnworth on election night, lenger, Liberal download the free Barbara Lu, had Layar app to your 7,412 ballots cast in her favour. smartphone and “It’s a real privscan this page ilege and a real honour to represent the community I grew up in. I was really pleased with our campaign locally,” Farnworth said.
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