Team Holt rolls to massive victory in New Brunswick
The Tory blue remained strong in York, Carleton and Victoria counties. Still, Team Holt’s Liberal red wave rolled over New Brunswick’s big cities and the Liberal strongholds in the Northern N.B. for a massive Liberal victory in the Oct. 21 provincial election.
The Liberals, under Premier-elect Susan Holt, captured 31 unofficial seats, while outgoing Premier Blaine Higgs’s PCs managed only 16, with David Coon’s Green Party earning two seats.
PC incumbents and cabinet ministers in the Higgs cabinet, Richard Ames in Carleton-York, Bill Hogan in Woodstock-Hartland and Margaret Johnson in Carleton Victoria, all rolled to definite victories in their ridings; the situation was dramatically different throughout the rest of the province.
Perhaps the biggest shock in the historic election was Higgs’ loss in his own riding of Quispamsis.
Holt made history, becoming the first female premier in New Brunswick’s history.
Ames, Hogan and Johnson all garnered over 50 per cent of the vote in their respective ridings to role to easy victories.
In Carleton-York, Ames picked up 58.9 per cent of the vote with 4,622 votes. Liberal Chris Duffie followed with 2ith 2,136, Green Party Burt Folkins with 675, and PANB Sterling Wright with 415.
In Woodstock-Carleton, Hogan captured 52.8 per cent with 4,199 votes, followed by Liberal Marisa Pelkey with 2,549, PANB Charlie Webber with 575, Green Party Jada Roche with 276, Independent Ernest Culberson with 209 and NDP Bo Sheaves with 138.
In Carleton-Victoria, Johnson earned 62.3 per cent, with 4,798 votes, followed by Liberal Julian Moulton with 2,159, Green Party Rebecca Blaevoet with 451 and Social Justice Party’s Tasha Rossignol with 290.
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