Conservatives flip 3 seats in Waterloo region, ousting Liberals and Green MPs
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Three ridings in Waterloo region have flipped from Liberal and Green to Conservative in the federal election.
One of the last ridings to report final results was Kitchener Centre. Results came after 4 p.m. Tuesday and showed Conservative Kelly DeRidder won with 20,217 votes, which was 358 more than Green incumbent Mike Morrice, who had 19,859.
Liberal Brian Adeba came in third with 17,298 votes.
Kitchener Centre was a seat the Greens had hoped to hold onto during a tumultuous election for the party.
In Cambridge, Conservative Connie Cody won the seat, getting 1,474 votes more than Liberal incumbent Bryan May.
May has been the MP for the riding since 2015. He beat Cody in 2021.
"I believe that a lot of the people here in our community were looking for hope and looking for change," Cody told CBC News Tuesday night at her election watch party at Kasturi Restaurant in Cambridge.
"I didn't focus on winning or losing, I focused on going out to our community, going door-to-door, hearing the concerns and meeting the people in this community. I was born and raised here. It's a part of my heart and soul and it's home to me."
She said she knocked on doors and heard from people in the riding that they wanted her to address issues like crime, affordability and housing.
"We've got to make sure that we have safer streets, safer communities and people are deserving of being able to own their own homes," Cody said.
Conservative Matt Strauss won in Kitchener South-Hespeler with 1,028 votes over Liberal incumbent Valerie Bradford.
Strauss said he was "overwhelmed with gratitude" for the people who helped get him elected during his election watch party Tuesday night. He was also very thankful for the people who voted for him in what was a tight race.
"The job was to go around and talk to as many people as possible and hear as many stories as I could and then sort of collate those stories into a consistent narrative about our community and what needs to be done," Strauss told CBC News.
"I'm so happy to have had that opportunity and I'm still thinking about how we're going to push those those concerns and those priorities forward."
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