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ELECTION / RESULTS / ThE TRI-CITIES Conservative Nelly Shin won the riding of Port MoodyCoquitlam in Monday’s federal election in a tight race that at one point saw the top three candidates within less than 1% of one another.
Incumbent Liberal MP Ron McKinnon won re-election Monday in the riding of Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, edging his closest competitor, the Conservatives’ Nicholas Insley by just 339 votes.
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Close Tri-City votes mirror nat’l. race Popular vote nos. are similar to those seen across the country STEfAn LABBé slabbe@tricitynews.com
The Tri-Cities lived up to its battleground expectations Monday in an election that closely mirrored the fractured
electoral landscape across the country. In Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, Liberal incumbent Ron McKinnon eked out a victory over his Conservative rival Nicholas Insley by a margin of just 339 votes in a win emblematic of the party’s national fortunes. Next door in Port MoodyCoquitlam, a tight three-way race kept Liberal, Conservative
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and NDP voters glued to the screen late into the night. In the end, Tory parachute candidate Nelly Shin upset both NDP hopeful Bonita Zarrillo and Liberal contender Sara Badiei, supplanting a decade of NDP representation by a mere 333 votes. Across the country, the NDP failed to translate the momentum its campaign had gathered in recent weeks to wins at the
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ballot box, and after promise early in the campaign, the Greens gained only one seat nationally. In many ways, every party failed to make a major breakthrough. When SFU political scientist Stewart Prest looks at the suburban makeup of Tri-Cities’ two ridings — bellwethers that lived up to their expectations — he’s not surprised.
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“There’s a totally different conversation going on around issues like climate and energy, politics, and you’re sort of sitting at the dividing line where both conversations are happening in the same place at the same time,” he told The Tri-City News. “It’s just completely different world-views… And we’re seeing evidence that both are present where the town meets the city.”
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While McKinnon’s win represents a Liberal party barely hanging on after Trudeau’s SNC Lavalin and “blackface” scandals, Prest looks at Shin’s victory as in part due to an expanding urban core, where people looking to buy a home in the suburbs tend to have economic aspirations that line up with a conservative message. see
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