Global News is projecting Liberal candidate Danielle Martin has won Monday’s byelection in the federal riding of University—Rosedale.
Martin won with over 64 per cent of the vote after all polls were counted, Elections Canada said just after midnight Eastern Tuesday.
The riding had been represented by Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland since its creation in 2015 until her resignation earlier this year.
Freeland, who had served as former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s deputy and other high-profile cabinet roles, left Parliament to serve a special economic advisory role to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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The Toronto-area riding was considered a safe seat for the Liberals, who nominated Martin, a physician and academic, as their candidate to potentially replace Freeland.
Her opponents included Conservative candidate Don Hodgson, New Democratic candidate Serena Purdy and Green Party candidate Andrew Massey.
The riding encompasses the University of Toronto’s St. George campus and part of downtown Toronto, plus the inner-city neighbourhoods of Rosedale and Yorkville.
THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY!
Those seats were for conservatives. Not for traitors in Carney’s pocket. Check the traitors bank accounts
Canada is the bottom of the barrel of “free and democratic” nations.
Taxed to death and when an foreigner breaks in to kill you, you have to sit there and take it.
A starter home is half a million dollars but the upper tax brackets make it impossible to get there.
HEY GLOBAL!! This is not a TRUE MAJORITY!! THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY!! You willingly support fascism and subjugate the people! SHOVE IT UP YOUR LIBERAL FASCIST AZZZZ!