Elmwood-Transcona voters head to polls in byelection to choose new MP
CBC
Voters in the eastern Winnipeg riding of Elmwood-Transcona will choose a new member of Parliament on Monday in a byelection triggered by the resignation of the NDP's Daniel Blaikie.
New Democratic Party candidate Leila Dance is trying to hold on to this seat for her party, which has won Elmwood-Transcona in every riding since its inception except for 2011, when the Conservatives won a majority government under Stephen Harper.
The Conservatives are running candidate Colin Reynolds in this byelection. His campaign aimed to unseat the NDP by drawing attention to the two-year confidence-and-supply deal between the New Democrats and the governing Liberal Party, which the NDP said it was ending earlier this month.
The Liberals, who have not finished higher than third place in Elmwood-Transcona since 1997, are running Ian MacIntyre.
Green candidate Nicolas Geddert, Sarah Couture of the People's Party and Zbig Strycharz of the Canadian Future Party are also on the ballot.
The seat was left vacant after Blaikie resigned in March to take a job with Wab Kinew's provincial NDP government in Manitoba. Blaikie won three elections for the NDP and served more than eight years as MP.
According to Elections Canada, 10,032 Elmwood-Transcona voters, or 14 per cent of the registered voters in the riding, cast a ballot in advance polls.
Voting on Monday takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. CT in Elmwood-Transcona, one of two Canadian ridings where byelections are taking place.
A byelection is also being held in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, a Montreal riding most recently held by former Liberal cabinet minister David Lametti.
There are several ways to watch the results of both byelections.
An online special will stream live starting at 8 p.m. CT on Monday.
Power & Politics host David Cochrane will guide viewers through live results and a panel of insiders will also break down what they mean for the looming federal election.
The special will stream live on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, CBC Gem, CBC News Explore and the CBC News YouTube page.
CBCNews.ca will have the latest updates, up-to-the-minute results and full political reaction to the results.
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