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Todd Goudy is the winner of the Melfort byelection.

Mar 1, 2018 | 9:01 PM

The SaskParty will continue to occupy the MLA seat for the constituency of Melfort.

Melfort minister Todd Goudy defeated NDP candidate Lorne Schroeder and the Green Party’s Shawn Setyo Thursday in the byelection to replace the late Kevin Phillips.

Goudy received 3270 votes or 78.5 per of the count. Schroeder was second with 809 votes or 19.4 per cent. Green Party candidate Shawn Setyo placed third with 77 votes which amounted to 1.8 per cent of the 4168 people who voted.

The results will become official March 13 after the final count which will include absentee as well as hospital/remand votes.

Preliminary numbers show a voter turn out rate of just over 34.2 per cent.

It was a hat-trick of wins for the govening party on a night of byelections across the province.

Ken Francis cruised to victory in the Kindersley ballot with 3339 votes, ahead of the NDP’s Travis Hebert who secured 375 votes; that was for a 88.1 per cent/ 9.9 per cent split. 

It was a similar political picture in Swift Current where the SaskParty’s Everett Hindley wrapped things up with 3776 votes or 73.4 per cent of the total turn out. The NDP’s Stefan Rumpel had 1243 votes or 24.2 per cent of the total ballots.

 

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