Tide Turning in Canada? Conservatives Win Ontario Riding By-Election by Widest Margin In 20 Years

Clare Marie Merkowsky : Mar 7, 2024
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"When we talk about what's happening in the country right now, I do think it's Liberal elites betraying the working class. When I say liberal elites, I am talking about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party..." -Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani

(Durham, Ontario) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani has won the Durham by-election by the largest margin in 20 years following months of polling projecting nationwide disaster for Trudeau's Liberal Party. (Image: via LifeSiteNews /X)

According to preliminary results from Elections Canada, in the March 4 Durham, Ontario by-election, Jivani, a lawyer and political commentator, took home 57 percent of the vote, with the second place Liberal candidate, Robert Rock, garnering just 22.5 percent of the vote.

Jivani's victory is the largest the Conservatives have had in the riding in 20 years, according to the National Post, and presents a whopping 11 percent increase compared to 2021 when former Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole won the same riding with 46 percent of the vote. As for the Liberals, Rock's 22.5 percent represents a 7 percent drop for the party, who achieved 29.9 percent of the vote in Durham in 2021. 

Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada candidate, Patricia Conlin, garnered over 5 percent of the vote, in what many are seeing as positive growth for the still relatively new populist, pro-freedom party... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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