Update #2: With 23 of 93 polls reporting in for Hastings-Lennox and Addington PC candidate Daryl Kramp leads the race with 8,461 votes or about 46%, trailing by 2,222 votes is NDP candidate Nate Smelle with 34 percent of the vote. Liberal candidate Tim Rigby has 13 percent of the votes while Green candidate Sari Watson has 5 percent. Trailing are Trillium Party candidate Lonnie Herrington with 127 votes and Libertarian Greg Scholfield with 126 votes.
At the provincial level, it is very clear Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative party is going to form a majority government for the next 4 years in the province of Ontario. The PC party has 40 percent of the popular with the NDP trailing behind with just over 34 percent. So what that translates to on a provincial level the PC’s have 53 candidates elected across Ontario and the NDP only have 27 candidates elected. The wild card tonight is the Liberals and how many candidates they will have elected. will they hold on to official party status? So far their have been no liberals elected across Ontario.
UPDATE #1: as we wait for results to start coming in let’s look at the provincial race. The latest IPSOS poll suggested that Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative party has 39-percent of the popular vote and likely headed for a majority win, but don’t count Andrea Horwath’s NDP part out yet. That same survey suggests they are just behind the PC’s at 36-percent. The Liberals trailed far behind at 19-percent. But what tonight will come down to is how every voter in Ontario felt when they marked their “X” in the box beside a candidate’s name.
The polls have closed and now residents in the Hastings, Lennox and Addington riding await the results.
After days of advanced polling, special ballots and 12 hours of polling today, an MPP for the riding will be decided.
In the running for the newly created district are PC Candidate Daryl Kramp, Liberal Candidate Tim Rigby, NDP Candidate Nate Smelle, Green Party candidate Sari Watson, Lonnie Herrington representing the Trillium Party and Libertarian Candidate Greg Scholfield.
Returning Electoral Officer Christine McIvor says there are nearly 73,000 eligible voters in the newly formed district.