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Scarborough-Guildwood: 2006 ResultsCategory: Politics The results are in, and Liberal incumbant John McKay easily won Mondays election. This is somewhat surprising considering how hard Conservative challenger Pauline Browes worked the riding. Unlike the others, she wasn't just campaigning since the election was called in December. We found Browes' flyers in our mailbox no fewer than three or four times since July. The last flyer was delivered personally by Browes just days before the election. I expected McKay to win, but with a slimmer margin of victory. The election results must be a big disappointment to Scarborough-Guildwood Conservatives since they only gained about 2,500 more votes since the 2004 election. At the same time, the popular John McKay himself gained almost a thousand more votes. The following table shows the election results of Scarborough-East and Scarborough-Guildwood since 1968, including the results of Mondays vote:
As you can see by the past results, Conservative support in this riding is still nowhere near the levels of the 1970's and 1980's. Clearly, conservatives of the progressive variety still aren't feeling comfortable with the new Conservative party led by Stephen Harper. Even though Harper was born and raised in Leaside, he and his party just don't seem to appreciate the problems faced by major urban centers in this country. Urban voters completely shut out the Conservatives in the three biggest cities in Canada, and that, of course, included Scarborough-Guildwood. Hans path: /Politics | permanent link to this entry  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
