A ballot recount has confirmed that Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli beat the Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk in an Ontario riding, while results in another Newfoundland recount are expected today.
In the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore, the judicial recount found that Borrelli beat Kusmierczyk by just four votes. After a three-day recount, the final results showed Borrelli with 32,090 votes, Kusmierczyk with 32,086 votes, and NDP candidate Alex Ilijoski with 4,240 votes.
Borrelli initially beat Kusmierczyk by 233 votes on election night on April 28. However, an initial Elections Canada validation count reduced Borrelli’s lead to 77, which was seven votes short of triggering an automatic recount.
Kusmierczyk, who has been the MP for the riding since 2019, told reporters on May 9 his team of volunteers had identified some ballots that had been mistakenly rejected. They presented their evidence to Justice Ross Macfarlane to request a recount, which he accepted. …