Local candidates celebrated win or lose | Owen Sound Sun Times - Scott Dunn:
October 21, 2019 - "Less than an hour after local polls closed in Owen Sound, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP, Green, People’s Party and Libertarian candidates celebrated their achievements, win or lose. About 10:10 p.m., CBC declared the Liberals would win the election nationally, though most of the rest of the country’s results had yet to be tabulated and local results had only just begun to come in....
"Libertarian candidate Dan Little said he wasn’t surprised with the results in Eastern Canada which were strongly Liberal and was buoyed when a supporter told him he was leading local People’s Party of Canada candidate Bill Townsend. That was with too few polls reporting to celebrate yet and as this story was being filed, Townsend was well ahead of Little.
"Little said if he got 300 votes he’d be happy with the result. [He received 306 according to election-night reporting - ed.].... 'But then that just builds the base and we can expand from there.'
"That would be one more vote than Jim Turner got in the riding of Bruce-Grey in 1980 while running under the Libertarian banner. That represented 0.8 per cent of the vote. In 1993, Ralph Hanke received just 152 votes or 0.3 of the vote....
"Little mostly campaigned outside the liquor store in Owen Sound, favouring that method over door-knocking, which he said he finds too intrusive. He mostly talked about taxes being too high, that we’re not properly represented and monetary system faults.
"He’s a marine engineer who works on ships and so only started campaigning in person 10 days into the campaign, once he returned to his home in Owen Sound. He campaigned here, Meaford, Wiarton, Markdale, Flesherton and Hanover."
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October 21, 2019 - "Less than an hour after local polls closed in Owen Sound, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP, Green, People’s Party and Libertarian candidates celebrated their achievements, win or lose. About 10:10 p.m., CBC declared the Liberals would win the election nationally, though most of the rest of the country’s results had yet to be tabulated and local results had only just begun to come in....
"Libertarian candidate Dan Little said he wasn’t surprised with the results in Eastern Canada which were strongly Liberal and was buoyed when a supporter told him he was leading local People’s Party of Canada candidate Bill Townsend. That was with too few polls reporting to celebrate yet and as this story was being filed, Townsend was well ahead of Little.
"Little said if he got 300 votes he’d be happy with the result. [He received 306 according to election-night reporting - ed.].... 'But then that just builds the base and we can expand from there.'
"That would be one more vote than Jim Turner got in the riding of Bruce-Grey in 1980 while running under the Libertarian banner. That represented 0.8 per cent of the vote. In 1993, Ralph Hanke received just 152 votes or 0.3 of the vote....
"Little mostly campaigned outside the liquor store in Owen Sound, favouring that method over door-knocking, which he said he finds too intrusive. He mostly talked about taxes being too high, that we’re not properly represented and monetary system faults.
"He’s a marine engineer who works on ships and so only started campaigning in person 10 days into the campaign, once he returned to his home in Owen Sound. He campaigned here, Meaford, Wiarton, Markdale, Flesherton and Hanover."
Read more: https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/local-candidates-celebrated-win-or-lose
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