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Tilson returning to Ottawa
October 20, 2015 · 0 Comments
David Tilson was all smiles as he arrived at his victory party Monday night.
Photo by Bill Rea
By Bill Rea
The results were probably closer than he would have liked to see, but they were enough to send David Tilson back to the House of Commons after Monday’s federal election.
According to preliminary figures supplied early Tuesday morning by Elections Canada, Dufferin-Caledon’s veteran MP collected 26,607, good for 45.9 per cent of the total cast, with 260 out of 268 polls reporting. Liberal Ed Crewson was about 4,000 votes off the pace, with 22,736, or 39 per cent. Green Party candidate Nancy Urekar was third with 4,445, followed by New Democrat Rehya Yazbek with 4,353.
Tilson will find himself on the opposite side of the House to which he’s used. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper went down to defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau and Liberals. As of 1 a.m. Tuesday, Elections Canada gave the Liberals 184 seats to 102 for the Conservatives, 41 for the NDP, 10 for the Bloc Québécois and one for the Green’s.
“Wow!” Tilson said to his supporters as he addressed his victory party Monday night. “I’m most thankful for what went on here.”
He also expressed this thanks to the other three candidates.
“It was a clean campaign and they were all good candidates,” he declared.
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