we’re going to begin this Tuesday morning with breaking news in the closely watched Federal byelection of Toronto St Paul’s conservative Don Stewart has won the longtime liberal stronghold this is a stunning result in a seat the Liberals have held for more than 30 years one that’s sure to ignite more questions around the political future of prime minister Justin Trudeau the dramatic vote count lasted into the early hours of this morning with Stuart taking the lead with just the final batch of votes MaryAnn’s going to lead off our coverage this morning with this nailbiter of an outcome it really was Heather because polls closed at 8:30 p.m. Eastern last night but that ballot counting it lasted into the night into the overnight hours it wasn’t until up about 4: a.m. eastern when we finally got this result that Conservative candidate Don Stewart won the riding of Toronto St Paul’s with a 590 vote win over liberal candidate Leslie Church the reason why it took so long for these votes to be counted is because there were a record 84 names on the ballot the ballot itself was about a meter long though many of those names on the ballot were activists running in protests of Canada’s first past the post voting system now Stewart’s win means major change in this writing as you heard Heather say this has been a liberal stronghold for more than three decades the byelection itself was to replace former liberal MP and cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett who represented this writing for 26 years before retiring but important to knowe that a Conservative candidate has not not been competitive in this writing of Toronto St Paul’s since the 1980s here’s more from Don Stewart last night before these results were released there’s a message that our voters would like to send to Mr Trudeau and that’s one of change the only way to get that is by electing a conservative government so change that issue of change has been really at the heart of this byelection throughout the campaign whether the result would signal that there’s even bigger change on the horizon yeah leading up to this morning’s result all eyes were on this byelection in Toronto St Paul’s many saying that this would be a referendum on prime minister Justin Trudeau and we also know that many pollsters and pundits were saying that if there was a conservative win here this could put pressure on the prime minister to step down though there’s no indication from Trudeau himself that he plans to do that here’s more insight into that thinking I think that uh we’re going to see that it’s going to be very difficult for the Liberals uh to turn around over the next little while that doesn’t necessarily mean though that it’s an inevitable Puro of majority government in a year because while it’s a lot to turn the polls by 20 points over a year and four months you don’t see that a lot if it can get close enough that we’re get getting back to a minority government situation then that is a different conversation that was Eric gr speaking on Rosemary Barton live over the weekend but of course a lot of questions about what a conservative win in a liberal stronghold like the Toronto St Paul writing would mean for other traditionally liberal writings including the labor neighboring writing of um of eging and Lawrence and Willowdale so uh as we head into the eventual next election all eyes on what that means but as you said Heather there have been some polls National polls done showing that Canadians they’re looking for change
Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the longtime federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s, a stunning result that raises questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future.
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