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https://davidraymondamos3. Monday, 24 April 2023 Voters in 3 provincial ridings elect new MLAs today | |
New Brunswick Byelections Results Livestream
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Voters in 3 provincial ridings elect new MLAs today
Liberal Leader Susan Holt aims to get into the legislature, but is facing high-profile Green candidate
Holt is on the ballot in one of three byelections being held in the province.
The race in Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore represents her first opportunity to get a seat in the legislature, and the spotlight that comes with it, since she won the leadership of the party last August.
Holt says she's promising voters "a leadership that listens, that's close to communities and that tries to understand people and work on their priorities."
Bathurst
East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore, a traditionally Liberal riding, has a
strong Green candidate in Serge Brideau, a well-known musician and
activist, (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore is a traditionally Liberal riding, but Holt is facing a formidable opponent in Green candidate Serge Brideau, a well-known musician and activist with the Acadian Society of New Brunswick.
"I think people need a real change, not just a surface change or catch phrases," Brideau said last week as he knocked on doors on Mount Carmel Street in East Bathurst.
The governing Progressive Conservatives opted not to run a candidate in the byelection.
Campaign signs for Susan Holt, Serge Brideau and Alex White in the Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore byelection. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Premier Blaine Higgs said last month Holt deserved a chance to get into the legislature, where she would become leader of the official opposition.
"It's important to have her views shared directly and an opportunity to debate that back and forth, as opposed to being on the sidelines," he said.
The PCs are running candidates in the two other byelections Monday, in Restigouche-Chaleur and Dieppe.
Alex
White, the interim leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party, is
on the ballot. The NDP has not elected an MLA since 2003. (Gilles Landry/Radio-Canada)
Another party leader is on the ballot in Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore: Alex White, the interim leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party.
White says he opted for the riding, rather than either of the other two, because Holt's candidacy means he can have a greater impact.
"With no Conservative candidate, it gives us a chance to show the Liberals are not a progressive party … and to show the NDP is still here, still strong and still fighting for everyone."
The NDP has not elected an MLA since 2003 and won less than two per cent of the popular vote in the last election.
All three ridings became vacant last fall when their long-time Liberal MLAs retired from politics.
The polls open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With files from Alix Villeneuve, Radio-Canada
Survey says???
Liberals take all 3 seats by comfortable margin
CBC News · Posted: Apr 24, 2023 8:01 PM ADT
Reply to G. Timothy Walton
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Reply to Graeme Scott
Reply to Chuck Gendron
Least Greens came to my door to talk. They will get my support.
Reply to Steve Gordon
Reply to Ferdinand Boudreau
If Monsieur Brideau does win it will be interesting to see the interaction between he and the premier…considering the choice words he had when the premier attained power.
Reply to Steve Gordon
Remember what happened to Vickers couple years ago? There's no guarantee of a win when people go out and vote.
The liberals shooting themselves in the foot twice in a row with their terrible choices in leadership would be hilarious.
Reply to Ben Haroldson
Susan Holt wins legislature seat in Liberal byelection sweep
Liberals also took two other ridings where byelections were held Monday
Quoting singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, N.B. Liberal Leader Susan Holt asked that question as she addressed a crowd of around 50 supporters at a Bathurst pub after being elected in Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore, securing her seat in the legislature.
Liberals also swept two other ridings where byelections were held Monday, with Richard Losier winning in Dieppe and Marco LeBlanc taking Restigouche-Chaleur.
In her speech to supporters, Holt said the riding welcomed her with "open doors and with open arms."
"You shared with me your hopes and your fears and your dreams, and I take that so seriously," said Holt.
Liberal Richard Losier, shown here with Susan Holt, won the Dieppe riding Monday night. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
"I can promise you today that I will honour everything you've shared with me and give you my best effort, my hardest work to sincerely represent your interests in the Legislative Assembly as the MLA for Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore."
She said her team will work to "bring New Brunswick into the future," mentioning better access to health care and daycare, a green economy and affordable housing.
When speaking with reporters after her speech, Holt said she was grateful people put their trust in her.
She said leading up to the byelection, she "did the work" and was out connecting with people every day to give them a chance to get to know her.
But she said although she felt optimistic going into it, she still had butterflies up until the eighth poll came in.
Holt and Green Party candidate Serge Brideau shook hands after Holt won the riding. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Green Party candidate Serge Brideau, a well-known musician and activist with the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, came second to Holt.
He said he thinks the Greens are gaining momentum across the province given the number of votes he received, compared to the Green Party support in the last election for his riding.
"We worked as hard as we could but democracy has the last word and that's what's important," he told reporters.
Green Party candidates came second in all three ridings on Monday night. The Progressive Conservatives did not field a candidate against Holt.
Marco LeBlanc won Restigouche-Chaleur for the Liberal Party. (Serge Bouchard/Radio-Canada)
Holt's win brings the standings in the legislature to 30 seats for the Progressive Conservatives, 16 for the Liberals and three for the Greens. This also makes her the leader of the official opposition.
Here's how the voting stacked up:
Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore
- Holt, Liberal — 2,343.
- Serge Brideau, Green Party —1,411.
- Alex White, NDP — 227
Restigouche-Chaleur
- Marco LeBlanc, Liberal — 2,462
- Rachel Boudreau, Green Party — 1,541.
- Anne Bard-Lavigne, PC — 771.
- Alex Gagné, NDP — 95.
Dieppe
- Richard Losier, Liberal — 2,424 votes.
- Chantal Landry, Green Party — 651.
- Dean Leonard, PC — 298.
- Cyprien Okana, NDP — 96.
With files from Jacques Poitras
Now they're up to a whopping 16 seats, and think they won the next election lol.
Reply to Don Corey
The Liberals have no hope in a provincial election.
Reply to Don Corey
Meanwhile I will keep voting Green because someday they will topple your precious Liberals and good riddance.
I just hope that everyone who bothered
to vote today, did so believing that they
chose the person who they could trust
to represent them fairly.
We will know soon enough as they
take their Seats in the House !!
Reply to Dianne MacPherson
Wins are wins for N.B. Liberals, but Greens celebrate too
Monday’s byelection results preserve the political status quo. That could be good news for PC government
Defeated Green candidate Serge Brideau arrived with a small group of his campaign workers.
Brideau had stopped in earlier to congratulate Liberal leader Susan Holt on beating him in Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore.
For his second appearance, he brought his guitar. Soon he was performing Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash and songs by his own folk-rock band, Les Hôtesses d'Hilaire.
Brideau
performs at the Liberal byelection victory party at a downtown Bathurst
pub Monday night while Holt supporter Stephanie Tomlinson, in white,
and Holt's chief of staff Alaina Lockhart stand by and watch. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
The remaining Liberals, including Holt's chief of staff Alaina Lockhart and former Bathurst MLA Brian Kenny, seemed alternately bemused and confused as their celebration started to look more like a Green hoedown.
Not a bad metaphor for Monday's byelection results, come to think of it.
As expected, the Liberals swept the three races, in Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-St. Isidore, Restigouche-Chaleur and Dieppe. All three had been Liberal before.
More importantly, Holt got into the legislature, allowing her to go toe-to-toe in debates with Premier Blaine Higgs, whom she hopes to defeat in next year's provincial election.
But the Greens nonetheless squeezed their way into the political frame — or at least avoided being squeezed out.
Brideau got 35.4 per cent of the vote against Holt, almost tripling the Green share in the riding last time.
"I gained a lot and I'm back in 2024, for sure," he said.
In Restigouche-Chaleur, Green candidate Rachel Boudreau got more than 30 per cent of the vote, second to winner Marco LeBlanc. (Serge Bouchard/Radio-Canada)
In Restigouche-Chaleur, Green candidate Rachel Boudreau, a former mayor, got 31.6 per cent of the vote, placing second to winner Marco LeBlanc. Progressive Conservative Anne Bard-Lavigne trailed with 15.8 per cent.
And in Dieppe, where Liberal Richard Losier scooped up more than two-thirds of the vote, the Greens had 18.8 per cent, compared to a dismal 8.6 per cent for the third-place PCs.
The Tories didn't run a candidate against Holt.
"It's interesting to see that in New Brunswick, for francophones at this moment, the second party is not the Conservatives, it's the Greens," says Roger Ouellette, a political scientist at the University of Moncton.
The Green vote wasn't enough to win in three traditionally Liberal strongholds.
But if the party's support improves at the same rate in ridings that are less reliably Liberal, it could make it difficult for Holt to become premier in 2024.
Ouellette pointed out that the Greens have also been competitive in the mostly anglophone southern part of the province.
"We will see in the next election if the Greens stay in touch with voters and are able to have good candidates like this time and obtain some votes," Ouellette said.
In Dieppe, Liberal Richard Losier scooped up more than two-thirds of the vote. (Michelle LeBlanc/Radio-Canada)
"Maybe it will split the vote and it will be an advantage for the Conservatives."
In that sense, Monday's results represent no change to the existing dynamic in New Brunswick politics.
A best-ever for the Greens still isn't a breakthrough. Wins are wins: Holt will be in the legislature and Brideau won't. There'll be no crashing that party.
Holt argued the approach that led to her victory can be applied province-wide.
"People have lost faith in politics and government. So giving them hope that it can change is hard work that we need to do everywhere, because I don't think any vote can be taken for granted," she said Monday night.
Capturing traditional Liberal ridings, however, is a lot easier than building party support in areas where the PCs remain strong.
Sure, the Tories remain equally dead on arrival in most francophone areas — something Higgs blamed on the Liberals, telling reporters his opponents benefit from language divisions.
"I feel that we see that politically in the province, where there's certainly a value for the Liberals to maintain a political divide along linguistic lines," he said.
Higgs said given the history of the ridings, "the probability is low" that his party would win them anytime soon.
But he has shown in two straight elections that he doesn't need to do well in those places to win.
If Monday's results represent a political status quo, frozen in place — the Liberals with a Green problem, and the Greens with a Liberal problem — that's good news for the leader, and the party, already in power.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
one cannot be bemused and confused.
The history of those ridings actually show that with a good leader and good candidates the PC’s can and have won those ridings.
But the premier would have to admit he’s not a leader for the citizens of those ridings, so it’s much easier to blame the liberals for "political linguistic divide" which is something he’s been assiduously working at ever since he got to be premier.
Also, he calls the PC party "his party", it’s not, it’s the members party that he happens to be the elected leader of, he can be replaced, the sooner the better.
Reply to Al Clark
Methinks everybody knows he is far too big for that job N'esy Pas?
Reply to Michael Cain
A "Gallant type" government during the same period would have added another billion or so to the debt, and we'd still be no better off.
Voters will eventually decide if they want responsible government or more bloated liberal spending.
BTW, he probably improved his "deflecting off topic" by watching Trudeau.
Reply to Don Corey
Reply to David Amos
Reply to Michael Cain
Is there a link for that?
Reply to Michael Cain
Reply to Michael Cain
As to history, your version is obviously biased in the left leaning direction, so we'll just leave it at that. Mine tends to be more open minded.
Any country burdened in debt is doing nothing for the health of its citizens.
A prosperous/thriving economy under Conservatives always results in a positive environment for employers to build and invest, and create more good paying jobs so the middle class will be able to afford to live. The car will not have to be sold to pay the mortgage because interest rates won't be going up as a result of government-created inflationary pressures.
People will indeed thrive and be healthy doing so
Reply to Bob Smith
previous sentence:
"The Tories didn't run a candidate against Holt."
Reply to Al Clark
Reply to Don Corey
So Higgy is the lesser of two evil politicians?
Your preference would appear to be for wasteful/bloated spending and huge deficits.
It's the easy way to go for politicians, and gets lots of votes from those who love the liberal focus on socialism and income redistribution.
It's not "free money" though, and taxpayers ultimately pay the price.
You can only kick the can so far down the road before the time comes for payback.
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Thursday, 23 March 2023
Higgs calls 3 byelections in former Liberal ridings for April 24
RE Higgs calls 3 byelections in former Liberal ridings for April 24
Amanda Wildeman<amanda.wildeman@greenpartynb.ca> | Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 8:48 AM |
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From: "Lefty Morrill, New Brunswick New Democratic Party" <info@nbndp.ca>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:00:55 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: C'est parti ! Les candidats aux élections partielles du NPD
sont annoncés ! // It's on! NDP candidates for the by-elections
announced!
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
It's on! NDP by-election candidates announced!
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[English follows]
Je suis ravi d'annoncer que le Nouveau Parti démocratique du
Nouveau-Brunswick (NPDN) présentera des candidats dans les trois
circonscriptions lors des prochaines élections partielles.
Alex White, chef du NBNDP, sera le candidat dans
Bathurst-Est-Nepisiguit-Saint-
de longue date et un dirigeant du NPD.
En annonçant sa candidature, M. White a déclaré : " Les gens du
Nouveau-Brunswick méritent de voir ce qu'un vrai parti progressiste
peut faire. Un parti qui défendra les travailleurs, les femmes et les
minorités. Un parti qui n'aura pas peur de demander des comptes au
gouvernement et qui s'efforcera d'améliorer les conditions de travail
de manière significative. Un parti qui défendra le Nouveau-Brunswick
et les Néo-Brunswickois !
Faites du bénévolat pour aider nos candidats à gagner !
Cyprien Okana sera le candidat du NBNDP dans la circonscription de
Dieppe (17). Ancien[image] président du NBNDP, M. Okana est bien connu
comme chef de file dans son quartier et dans son église, travaillant
continuellement et activement à l'amélioration de sa communauté.
Alex Gagne a été annoncé comme candidat dans Restigouche-Chaleur (03).
M. Gagne a été actif au sein de l'aile [image]jeunesse du parti et
occupe actuellement le poste de vice-président du parti provincial.
Faites un don maintenant pour nous aider à gagner !
Les enjeux sont considérables à l'heure actuelle dans toute la
province. Les soins de santé, le logement, l'éducation ne sont que
quelques-unes des questions vitales auxquelles nous sommes confrontés
en tant que Néo-Brunswickois.
Nos candidats sont prêts et motivés.
Donnons-leur le soutien dont ils ont besoin en faisant des dons et du bénévolat.
Ensemble, nous gagnerons,
Lefty Morrill
Directeur exécutif
NPD NB
______________________________
I am thrilled to announce that the New Brunswick New Democratic Party
(NBNDP) will be running candidates in all three ridings in the
upcoming by-elections.
NBNDP Leader Alex White will be the candidate in Bathurst
East-Nepisiguit-Saint Isidore (05). He is a long-time activist and
officer in the NDP.
In announcing his candidacy, White said, "The people of New Brunswick
deserve to see what a true progressive party can do. One that will
stand up for workers, for women, for minorities. One that will not be
afraid to hold the government to account and will push to improve
conditions in a meaningful way. A party that will stand up for New
Brunswick and New Brunswickers!"
Volunteer to help our candidates win!
Cyprien Okana will be the NBNDP candidate in the Dieppe (17) riding. A
past president of the NBNDP, Okana is well-known as a leader in his
neighbourhood and his church, continuously and actively working to
improve his community.
Alex Gagne was announced as the candidate in Restigouche-Chaleur (03).
Gagne has [image] been active in the youth wing of the party and
currently serves as the vice-president of the provincial party.
Donate now to help us win!
There’s a lot at stake right now across the province. Healthcare,
housing, education are just some of the vital issues we’re facing as
New Brunswickers.
Our candidates are ready and fired up.
Let’s give them the support they need by donating and volunteering.
Together we will win,
Lefty Morrill
Executive Director
NB NDP
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Sunday, 9 April 2023
Candidates confirmed for April 24 byelections
Attn Serge Brideau I just called Correct?
David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> |  Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 4:24 PM |
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Sunday, 9 April 2023 Candidates confirmed for April 24 byelections | |
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