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NDP Win Port Moody-Coquitlam and Chilliwack-Hope By-Elections
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The BC NDP won two by-elections last Thursday, just one year out of the next scheduled general election in May 2013.
In Port Moody-Coquitlam, NDP candidate Joe Trasolini won the by-election with 54% of the vote, compared to the Liberals' Dennis Marsden with 30% and the Conservatives' Christine Clarke with 15%. In Chilliwack-Hope, NDP candidate Gwen O'Mahoney won the party's first ever seat in the riding. Ms. O'Mahoney finished with 41% of the vote, Liberal candidate Laurie Throness with 31%, and Conservative candidate John Martin with 25% of the vote. |