• MakingWork@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    With Charlie Angus leaving, I’m curious if North Eastern Ontario will stay NDP. I hear a lot of people support the conservative party.

    Who will replace him?

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      20 days ago

      I really can’t understand how Jagmeet has been allowed to lead for so long with the results he’s had and Charlie didn’t even get a shot.

      And then there’s this. How do NDP members defended him barely beating Niki Ashton.

      And yet, in the end, the result was not even close. Angus — with 19 per cent of the vote — not only finished more than 30 points behind Singh, he barely beat Niki Ashton (17 per cent) for second place.

      https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/in-ndp-leadership-race-charlie-angus-was-dealt-the-hardest-blow-h-bert/article_952370e1-9d86-51f4-bd3d-cf41199878d3.html

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      19 days ago

      With Charlie Angus leaving, I’m curious if North Eastern Ontario will stay NDP.

      It’s really, really hard to say. Charlie Angus’ riding and the other NDP-held riding up here have been redrawn by the last redistricting. The other current NDP MP in the area, Carol Hughes, is also not running for re-election. Both of them have held their posts for quite a long time, so there may be enough lingering pro-NDP sentiment in the far north to get their successors elected.

      Most of the other ridings are currently Liberal-held, with at least one of those incumbents not running for re-election either. I have no idea what direction anything’s going to jump in. It may come down to who the candidates are, as much as anything about the parties.