Manitoba NDP continue to flex muscle with Winnipeg by-election win
A political studies professor says the Manitoba NDP’s by-election win of a Progressive Conservative stronghold seat shows the Tories are at a low point.
Carla Compton won the Winnipeg seat in Tuxedo for the NDP on Tuesday night, beating Tory candidate Lawrence Pinsky by more than 600 votes.It was last held by former premier and PC party leader Heather Stefanson, who announced she would be stepping down after her party lost in last year’s provincial election and she narrowly reclaimed her seat.He says the Tories are in a difficult transition period.
“People can be smart, they can be sophisticated about those things. So, we might have seen some of that.” The by-election win puts the NDP at 35 legislature seats. The Tories have 21 and the Liberals have one.Koop said he agrees.“To welcome a New Democrat MLA from the constituency of Tuxedo, I think, sends a very clear message that we are one Manitoba.”
Compton, a registered nurse, said she wants to be involved in decisions impacting health care, including ways to improve recruitment and retention of workers.
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