The small riding of Fredericton has secured a seat for the Liberals in the 2015 federal election, with Matt DeCourcey winning tonight robbing Conservative Keith Ashfield of a third consecutive term.
The riding of Fredericton was one to watch this election, and just less than a week before the election, results were showing the residents were leaning Liberal.
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The region was under liberal rule since 1993, until MP Andy Scott left politics in 2008 leaving the door open for Conservative Keith Ashfield to take the seat. Fredericton was a Progressive Conservative seat from 1957 to 1993.
Ashfield won the seat again in 2011.
Green Party candidate Mary Lou Babineau and NDP Sharon Scott-Levesque were also running in this riding.
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