Four federal byelections were conducted on Monday and the results probably did not shock anyone who has been following along.
One of the bigger questions around the byelections was whether People's Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier would get the Portage-Lisgar seat in Parliament, but this did not happen. Conservative candidate Branden Leslie won the riding with 65% of the vote and is now their representative.
In Winnipeg, Ben Carr, son of late former Liberal MP Jim Carr, won the Winnipeg South Centre riding with approximately 54% of the vote.
Outside of Manitoba, the Conservatives held on to the Ontario riding of Oxford, which is seen as a stronghold for the party; while the Liberals kept the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount constituency in Quebec with Anna Gainey elected as their new MP.
Overall, there was no change in the total number of seats country-wide for the Conservatives or the Liberals.
