Tamara Jansen wins the Cloverdale-Langley City riding, marking the third byelection loss for the Trudeau Liberals this year.
Cloverdale-Langley City Liberal Party candidate Madison Fleischer speaks to volunteers at an event following a federal byelection in Surrey B.C., on Monday, December 16, 2024. In another blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, the federal Conservatives have won a byelection in the British Columbia riding of Cloverdale-Langley City.
Tamara Jansen is returning to Ottawa as MP for the riding which she last represented from 2019 to 2021, marking the third seat lost by the governing Liberals in a byelection this year. after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stepped down from cabinet on the day she was to deliver a fall economic statement. Jansen defeated five other people on the ballot including Liberal candidate Madison Fleischer and Vanessa Sharma, who was representing the NDP. Cloverdale—Langley City in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver has see-sawed between the Liberals and Conservatives in recent elections, with Jansen unseating Liberal John Aldag in 2019 before a 2021 rematch saw Aldag return as MP. Aldag quit this year to run in October’s provincial election for the NDP in Langley-Abbotsford, but he was defeated by a B.C. Conservative. All three provincial ridings in Langley were won by the B.C. Conservatives, who have no official relationship with the federal Conservatives. The byelection was a third test for the Trudeau government that lost two long-held seats in byelections elsewhere in Canada earlier this year. In September the federal Liberals lost a byelection to the Bloc Québécois in the Montreal riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun. The loss came after unexpectedly losing Toronto—St. Paul’s to the Conservatives in a byelection in June. The successive byelection losses, dismal poll numbers and now Freeland’s cabinet exit have inspired public calls from inside and outside of Trudeau’s caucus for him to resign as party leade
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