Global News is projecting Liberal MP Vance Badawey will be re-elected in the riding of Niagara Centre.
Badawey recaptured this Ontario riding in the 2019 election for a second term, winning 35 per cent of the vote. It was a tight race between Badawey and Conservative candidate April Jeffs, who lost by just 2,305 votes.
Niagara Centre includes most of central Welland, including the townships of Thorold, Crowland and Humberstone. Through redistribution, Wainfleet and the beach communities to the west of Port Colborne are now in the Niagara West riding.
The riding is home to 109,067 residents and 90,968 registered voters. Immigrants make up 12 per cent of the population, with Italian being the most common non-official language, according to the 2016 census.
Candidates
Liberal: Vance Badawey (incumbent)
Conservatives: Graham Speck
NDP: Melissa McGlashan
Green: Kurtis McCartney
People’s Party Of Canada: Michael Kimmons
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