WATCH ABOVE: The results are in and James Hughes has won the NDP nomination in the riding of NDG-Westmount. It was a race against five other NDP hopefuls. Billy Shields reports.
MONTREAL – NDP members gathered at the Crowley center Sunday afternoon to choose a representative in the upcoming federal election in the riding of the NDG-Westmount.
It’s been a heated race, with six high profile candidates vying for the top job.
Voting took place earlier Sunday afternoon, with hundreds of members having cast ballots in the advanced polls.
Ballot boxes closed and 5:30 p.m. and the winner, James Hughes, was announced shortly after 6 p.m.
The race was touted as a close affair, but in the end Hughes won on the first ballot, meaning that more than 50 per cent-plus-one of the roughly 1,400 NDP voters in the riding put his name first among the six candidates who ran for the party nomination.
Hughes, will now face-off with incumbent Liberal Marc Garneau, who has held the riding since 2008.
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