By Elections
In case you missed it, a trio of by elections were called last weekend.
1. Vaughan: Mayor Maurizio has won this riding easily in recent years, and defeated Richard Lorello 49% to 34% in 2008.
My seat projection system gives the Liberals a 91.4% chance to hold Vaughan during a general election, but this is a by election - a by election featuring a legitimate star candidate in Julian Fantino. Yes, I know the term "star candidate" gets used to describe anyone who has ever run for student council, had an op ed published in their local paper, or appeared as an extra on Road to Avonlea, but Fantino is legit. He's a former OPP Commissioner and Toronto Chief of Police, and is well respected in Vaughan. He's someone Stephen Harper would dearly love to have at his side when talking about Conservative "tough on crime" policies.
Taking on Fantino will be Liberal candidate Tony Genco, the former CEO and President of Downsview Park (a site that hosted both the Pope and the Rolling Stones...sadly not at the same time).
This has the makings of a good fight, with the Tories likely the slight favourites.
Winnipeg North: This seat was formerly held by Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the name that everyone loves to say three times real fast.
Trying to fill Judy's shoes for the orange will be educator Kevin Chief.
Chief's chief competition will come from Liberal nominee Kevin Lamoureux, a man who makes up 50% of the provincial Liberal caucus in Manitoba. Also in the mix is Tory candidateRay Larkin who was defeated by Wasylycia-Leis 63% to 22% in the last general election Julie Javier.
The projection model gives the NDP a 96.4% chance at holding the seat, with the Tories at 3.5% and the Liberals 0.2% longshots. Again, that's for a general election and anything can happen in a by election.
Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette: This has been Inky Mark territory since 1997. Like Judy, Mark gave up the glories of life on the back benches for municipal politics and, like Judy, he went down in defeat on Wednesday.
Mark won the last election by 45 percentage points and my seat projector has the Tories at a 100% chance of holding it in a general election. So, to put it mildly, the challengers have their work cut out for them. Especially since neither the Liberals nor the NDP have nominated a challenger as of yet.
The Tory candidate is Robert Sopuck, who "has earned a solid reputation as an outspoken advocate for Manitoba’s rural communities". If elected, Sopuck would help the Tories cut into the NDP's long standing facial hair dominance in parliament.
1. Vaughan: Mayor Maurizio has won this riding easily in recent years, and defeated Richard Lorello 49% to 34% in 2008.
My seat projection system gives the Liberals a 91.4% chance to hold Vaughan during a general election, but this is a by election - a by election featuring a legitimate star candidate in Julian Fantino. Yes, I know the term "star candidate" gets used to describe anyone who has ever run for student council, had an op ed published in their local paper, or appeared as an extra on Road to Avonlea, but Fantino is legit. He's a former OPP Commissioner and Toronto Chief of Police, and is well respected in Vaughan. He's someone Stephen Harper would dearly love to have at his side when talking about Conservative "tough on crime" policies.
Taking on Fantino will be Liberal candidate Tony Genco, the former CEO and President of Downsview Park (a site that hosted both the Pope and the Rolling Stones...sadly not at the same time).
This has the makings of a good fight, with the Tories likely the slight favourites.
Winnipeg North: This seat was formerly held by Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the name that everyone loves to say three times real fast.
Trying to fill Judy's shoes for the orange will be educator Kevin Chief.
Chief's chief competition will come from Liberal nominee Kevin Lamoureux, a man who makes up 50% of the provincial Liberal caucus in Manitoba. Also in the mix is Tory candidate
The projection model gives the NDP a 96.4% chance at holding the seat, with the Tories at 3.5% and the Liberals 0.2% longshots. Again, that's for a general election and anything can happen in a by election.
Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette: This has been Inky Mark territory since 1997. Like Judy, Mark gave up the glories of life on the back benches for municipal politics and, like Judy, he went down in defeat on Wednesday.
Mark won the last election by 45 percentage points and my seat projector has the Tories at a 100% chance of holding it in a general election. So, to put it mildly, the challengers have their work cut out for them. Especially since neither the Liberals nor the NDP have nominated a challenger as of yet.
The Tory candidate is Robert Sopuck, who "has earned a solid reputation as an outspoken advocate for Manitoba’s rural communities". If elected, Sopuck would help the Tories cut into the NDP's long standing facial hair dominance in parliament.
Labels: by elections, Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette, Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Julian Fantino, Kevin Chief, Robert Sopuck, Tony Genco, Vaughan, Winnipeg North
posted by calgarygrit at
9:00 a.m.
10 Comments:
Ray Larkin is not the Conservative Candidate anymore. Julie Javier is the new nominated candidate who will try to limit Lamoureux's strong Filipino base which makes up for a large part of the riding.
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Manitoban, at 9:55 a.m.
"Also in the mix is Tory candidate Ray Larkin who was defeated by Wasylycia-Leis 63% to 22% in the last general election."
The earlier commenter beat me to it, but here is her website:
http://www.juliejavier.ca
The switch was made just before the PM visited Winnipeg the other week, and they had an evening rally with her as well, apparently.
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The Pundits' Guide, at 10:49 a.m.
Winnipeg North is going to be very interesting... a popular Liberal running, the Conservatives running an actual campaign with a new candidate (rather then Ray simply carrying the banner). Depending on how the vote splits, this one could go any way.
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Anonymous, at 10:50 a.m.
And the NDP nomination meeting in DSRM is scheduled for October 30.
Declared so far is Denise Harder, the Chair of the Central Manitoba Regional Health Authority. Since they have until 7 days before the nomination meeting to declare and be approved by the party ("green-lit" in the Liberal parlance), we can assume that she will be acclaimed.
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The Pundits' Guide, at 10:52 a.m.
I wonder if Liberals will use these by-elections as a chance to vote on Ignatieff's leadership. If they're unhappy, will they send him a message?
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nuna d. above, at 1:13 p.m.
Thanks for the update.
It's my understanding that Lamoureux's riding only covers about 1/4 of the federal one, so he'll need to really get out the vote in that part of it.
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calgarygrit, at 6:09 p.m.
nuna d. above said...
I wonder if Liberals will use these by-elections as a chance to vote on Ignatieff's leadership. If they're unhappy, will they send him a message?
They don't really have much of a choice but to keep him around till the next election anyways.
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