Todd Smith re-elected in Bay of Quinte
CBC News | Posted: June 8, 2018 1:30 AM | Last Updated: June 8, 2018
Riding made up of the former Prince Edward-Hastings and Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington ridings
Progressive Conservative incumbent Todd Smith has been re-elected in Bay of Quinte.
With all of the polls reporting, Smith has 48 per cent of the vote, with 8,189 more votes more than his closest competitor, the NDP's Joanne Belanger.
Belanger finished with 31.8 per cent of the vote and Liberal Robert Quaiff, the mayor of Prince Edward County has 14.9 per cent.
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While Smith is the incumbent, redistribution has made this a far different riding than the one he represented for the past two terms.
The new riding of Bay of Quinte is only about one-fifth of the size of the former Prince Edward-Hastings riding. The riding's boundaries include the county of Prince Edward, the city of Quinte West and part of Belleville, but it no longer includes Hastings or Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
In the last election Smith defeated the Liberals by more than 4,000 votes. But a poll-by-poll count of votes cast only in the area that constitutes the new Bay of Quinte riding would have resulted in a much different outcome — a PC win by fewer than 600 votes, or about one per cent of the popular vote.
Also running in the riding were:
- Mark Daye for the Green Party.
- James Engelsman for the Trillium Party.
- Cindy Davidson for the Ontario Libertarian Party.
- Paul Bordonaro as an independent.