Liberal candidate Andrew Harvey has won his riding of Carleton-Victoria with 40 per cent of the vote in the 2014 New Brunswick election.
Harvey was leading Progressive Conservative candidate Colin Lockhart before vote counting was suspended due to technical glitches.
Lockhart finished in second place in a very close race with 39.75 per cent of the vote.
Harvey made headlines leading up to the election when charges of fraud and uttering forged documents against him were dropped. He was charged along with two other people and three companies in documents filed on July 29.
The information alleged that between May 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2011, the accused defrauded the province of more than $5,000 and while knowing or believing documents were forged, caused two people to act on those documents as though they were genuine.
Harvey was suspended as a Liberal candidate, but when the charges were dropped he was welcomed back to the Liberal party. Liberal leader Brian Gallant called into question the timing that the information emerged. “Obviously one of the main things we need to have answered I believe as a province, is the timing of everything that has transpired,” said Gallant. Gallant said he wants a third-party review of what happened, adding that there were many serious questions yet to be answered.
With files from The Canadian Press
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