The military veteran and former Liberal MP finished 651 votes ahead of second\u002Dplace Conservative candidate Sean Webster in voting.
McCrimmon, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran who previously served two terms in the House of Commons as federal MP for Kanata-Carleton, finished with 11,066 votes and a 651-vote advantage over Progressive Conservative candidate Sean Webster , according to unofficial results. Melissa Coenraad of the NDP ranked third with 9,560.
Those additions boosted the Liberals’ seat count in the legislature to nine, still shy of the 12 needed to qualify for official party status. Coenraad, a medical laboratory technician, was running in her fourth Kanata-Carleton campaign, having unsuccessfully contested the 2022 provincial general election and the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.Article content
She won the seat in 2018 with 23,089 votes, about 8,400 more than second-place NDP candidate John Hansen. Total ballots cast were 53,453.Article content
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