Against another big PC win, NDP keeps hold of London’s orange core [Video]

On a night when Doug Ford cruised to a third straight majority in Thursday’s Ontario election, the NDP managed to hold off PC challengers and retain their orange core in London’s three central ridings.

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While the PCs are poised to return to Queen’s Park with 80 of the legislature’s 124 seats, incumbent NDP candidates pulled off wins in London’s three central ridings, delivering second-place finishes for the PC challengers:

• Terence Kernaghan won in London North Centre over city councillor Jerry Pribil.
• Peggy Sattler won in London West, finishing ahead of educator Beth Allison.
• Teresa Armstrong held on to London-Fanshawe, beating landscape business owner Peter Vanderley.  

Liberal candidates running in London’s three core ridings finished third, another poor showing from a party that once drew strong support from the Forest City. 

In the rural ridings outside of London, the PCs dominated. Former agriculture minister Rob Flack won in Elgin-Middlesex-London by 16,000 votes over Liberal Doug Mactavish.

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