Nova Scotia election: Randy Delorey re-elected in Antigonish

Liberal incumbent Randy Delorey has been re-elected in the riding of Antigonish.

Delorey won a second term as MLA with 43.3 per cent of the vote.

In 2013, Delorey was elected by 1,014 votes with 42.78 per cent of the vote, beating NDP cabinet minister Maurice Smith who won the seat in a by-election in 2009. Prior to that, the riding was held from 1999 to 2009 by the Progressive Conservatives. Delorey faced off against the PCs’ Ray Mattie and Moraig MacGillivray with the NDP.

Delorey was finance minister under the Liberal government. He joined cabinet as environment minister but was moved to finance in a 2015 cabinet shuffle. He was a professor in the faculty of business at St. Francis.

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With the exception of the 2009 NDP win, the riding has alternated between the Liberals and the PCs. However, the riding boundaries were redrawn with the area east of the Tracadie River becoming part of the riding of Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie. The riding includes both the town and county of Antigonish, the Mi’kmaq community of Afton and the Acadian community of Pomquet.