People’s Party of Canada Maxime Bernier lost his bid to win a seat in the House of Commons..Tory candidate Branden Leslie handily won the traditionally safe Manitoba’s Portage-Lisgar with 64.7% of the vote..Bernier, who earned 17.3%, thanked his supporters for running a clean campaign and encouraged them to look ahead to the general election..“When the general election comes, we will be better prepared than ever before because I can tell you already we are not going away and I'm not going anyway.”.“I will be with you to do that fight in 2025.”.Meanwhile, the Liberals held onto Winnipeg South Centre, a red stronghold for decades. The Liberals have won the riding in 10 of the past 11 elections..Ben Carr replaced his late father, longtime MP Jim Carr, who died in December..Carr received 52.9%..Second place Conservative Damir Stipanovic trailed with 23%. .There were 48 candidates on the Winnipeg South Centre ballot, 41 running for the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC), a Winnipeg-based political activist group..LBC’s goal was to glut the ballot with meaningless candidates, satirizing the voting process by protesting Canada’s electoral system..The Liberals also held onto Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, one of the party’s safest ridings in Quebec, won by Anna Gainey, a close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..Gainey received 50.5%. The NDP and Conservative candidates virtually tied for second place with 19.9% and 13.6% respectively..With 42.4% of the vote, Arpan Khanna won Ontario’s Oxford, held by Conservatives since the early 2000s when the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties merged..The liberal candidate trailed with 36.7%..The main Conservative focus during the campaign by far was on Portage-Lisgar..Bernier was accused of being a “globalist.” The Conservatives dismissed him as an “opportunist” who parachuted into Manitoba after failing to win two elections in his old Beauce, Quebec riding..Bernier left the Conservative Party and formed the PPC shortly after losing a leadership bid to Andrew Scheer by a slim margin. .The riding was represented by the popular Candice Bergen, the former interim Conservative leader who resigned. .Bergen won the 2021 election with 53% of the vote and a 31% lead over the PPC candidate received 21.4%..Leslie, Bergen’s former campaign manager, worked as a lobbyist in Ottawa and worked for the Grain Growers of Canada. .His family farms in the riding.
People’s Party of Canada Maxime Bernier lost his bid to win a seat in the House of Commons..Tory candidate Branden Leslie handily won the traditionally safe Manitoba’s Portage-Lisgar with 64.7% of the vote..Bernier, who earned 17.3%, thanked his supporters for running a clean campaign and encouraged them to look ahead to the general election..“When the general election comes, we will be better prepared than ever before because I can tell you already we are not going away and I'm not going anyway.”.“I will be with you to do that fight in 2025.”.Meanwhile, the Liberals held onto Winnipeg South Centre, a red stronghold for decades. The Liberals have won the riding in 10 of the past 11 elections..Ben Carr replaced his late father, longtime MP Jim Carr, who died in December..Carr received 52.9%..Second place Conservative Damir Stipanovic trailed with 23%. .There were 48 candidates on the Winnipeg South Centre ballot, 41 running for the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC), a Winnipeg-based political activist group..LBC’s goal was to glut the ballot with meaningless candidates, satirizing the voting process by protesting Canada’s electoral system..The Liberals also held onto Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, one of the party’s safest ridings in Quebec, won by Anna Gainey, a close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..Gainey received 50.5%. The NDP and Conservative candidates virtually tied for second place with 19.9% and 13.6% respectively..With 42.4% of the vote, Arpan Khanna won Ontario’s Oxford, held by Conservatives since the early 2000s when the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties merged..The liberal candidate trailed with 36.7%..The main Conservative focus during the campaign by far was on Portage-Lisgar..Bernier was accused of being a “globalist.” The Conservatives dismissed him as an “opportunist” who parachuted into Manitoba after failing to win two elections in his old Beauce, Quebec riding..Bernier left the Conservative Party and formed the PPC shortly after losing a leadership bid to Andrew Scheer by a slim margin. .The riding was represented by the popular Candice Bergen, the former interim Conservative leader who resigned. .Bergen won the 2021 election with 53% of the vote and a 31% lead over the PPC candidate received 21.4%..Leslie, Bergen’s former campaign manager, worked as a lobbyist in Ottawa and worked for the Grain Growers of Canada. .His family farms in the riding.
