PC candidate Claude Bourgeois has been elected the MLA for the new provincial riding of Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay.
Unofficial results show Bourgeois, a local businessman, garnered 1,315 votes in Tuesday’s by-election, 48.7 per cent of all ballots cast.
Claude Bourgeois, PC candidate in the Cheticamp Margarees-Pleasant Bay by-election.
Runner-up Denis Cormier of the Liberals received 1,080 votes. The NDP’s Trevor Poirier had 258, and Green Party candidate Nik Boisvert received the support of 44 voters.
A total of 68 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in this by-election.
Some of the issues in this campaign included healthcare, roads, economic growth, and connectivity.
