SDSG – Here are the unofficial election results for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry with all 85 polls reporting:
Nolan Quinn – Progressive Conservative – 20,766 (57.50%)
Kirsten Gardner – Liberal – 6,456 (17.88%)
Wendy Stephen – NDP – 4,982 (13.80%)
Claude Tardif – New Blue Party – 1,538 (4.26%)
Jacqueline Milner – Green Party – 1,477 (4.09%)
Remi Tremblay – Ontario Party – 893 (2.47%)
There were 87,574 registered voters in the riding. Voter turnout was 41.2 per cent.
Other developments in the region and across Ontario:
- Progressive Conservative Steve Clark easily won Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes with 57.8 per cent of the vote and a nearly 17,000 margin over his Liberal challenger.
- With two polls left to report at midnight in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, PC Stephane Sarrazin was leading Liberal Amanda Simard by 1,627 votes.
- Voters across Ontario gave Doug Ford his second majority mandate. The PC’s had 83 seats, the NDP with 31 seats, the Liberals with eight seats and the Greens with one and an Independent with one. Two back-to-back conservative majorities hasn’t happened since Mike Harris did it in 1995 and 1999.
- Even though they will be the official opposition, Andrea Horwath announced her resignation as the NDP leader. She won her seat in Hamilton Centre.
- Liberal leader Steven Del Duca resigned as leader of the party. He failed to win his riding of Vaughan-Woodbridge. The Liberals also don’t have official party status in the legislature for a second election cycle.
- The one Green seat was leader Mike Schreiner recapturing his Guelph riding while Independent candidate Bobbi Ann Brady won the southwestern Ontario riding of Haldimand-Norfolk. She was the executive assistant to the former Tory MPP in the riding.