Windsor-Tecumseh still too close to call Tuesday morning
It was another nail-biter for Windsor-Tecumseh with the Liberals and New Democratic Party neck and neck once again.
The riding was too close to call Monday night in the 2021 federal election, a similar outcome to the previous race in 2019, the seat eventually taken by Liberal candidate Irek Kusmierczyk.
As of Tuesday morning the riding remained too close to call as well. As of 6 a.m. with 243/244 polls reporting, Kusmierczyk had a slight lead with 31.6 per cent of vote whole NDP candidate Cheryl Hardcastle has 30.7 per cent.
“I think it’s going to be a late night,” Kusmierczyk told supporters. “It’s gonna be close, we’ve still got advanced voting to go and we’ve still got mail in ballots. So we may not know till one or two o’clock in the morning. We may not know until Wednesday.”
The riding was pegged by experts as one to watch on election night with the area having changed hands twice in recent years.
The race between Kusmierczyk and NDP candidate Cheryl Hardcastle was tight with both candidates stuck in a tie at one point in the night.
Hardcastle is vying to reclaim the seat she previously held in 2015 before Kusmierczyk took the riding in 2019 with just 629 separating the two.
“I’ll tell ya something, no matter what the outcome is, I could not be more proud of what this campaign accomplished and I could not be more proud and more grateful for the volunteers that we had here on this campaign, so thank you,” Kusmierczyk said before his team went home Monday.
Conservative Kathy Borrelli is currently in third, followed by PPC’s Victor Green, the Green Party’s Henry Oulevey and Laura Chesnik of the Marxist-Leninst Party.
Candidates will not be speaking until Tuesday once the election has been called.
- With files from CTV Windsor's Rich Garton.
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