Liberals take seat from Conservatives in Labrador by-election
Posted May 14, 2013 04:43:19 AM.
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Liberal candidate Yvonne Jones has won the federal byelection in Labrador.
The seat became vacant when former Conservative MP Peter Penashue quit in March as intergovernmental affairs minister.
Penashue resigned after he overspent in the 2011 federal campaign and took illegal election contributions.
Jones is a former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals and served for 17 years in the provincial legislature.
Harry Borlase, a northern issues analyst and researcher, ran for the NDP.
A spring snowstorm along Labrador’s north coast made it difficult for some voters to get to the polls.
But Elections Canada said people who couldn’t get to their home community to vote because of the storm were able to get transfer certificates and vote in another polling station.
