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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:08 PM Mar 2012

NDP easily holds Toronto-Danforth in byelection: Harpercrites("Conservatives") finish weak third.

http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts_e.aspx

And the weirdest part is...the Conservative candidate is just barely ahead of the Green candidate.

Big win for the NDP...probably the end of the line for interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.

And welcome to Craig Scott...the new MP for Toronto-Danforth!

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NDP easily holds Toronto-Danforth in byelection: Harpercrites("Conservatives") finish weak third. (Original Post) Ken Burch Mar 2012 OP

And, according to the Wikipedia entry on the riding Ken Burch Mar 2012 #1

... Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #2

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

1. And, according to the Wikipedia entry on the riding

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:11 PM

Mar 2012

Craig Scott's current vote share(59.3%)is only 1.5% below the share Jack Layton himself took in the 2011 general election...and 2011 was the first and only time Jack won an overall majority of votes in the riding.

Let's hear it for Canada's true progressive party!

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)

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Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:32 PM

Mar 2012

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