Canadian Liberals Win Recount By Just 1 Vote [Video]

A suburban riding in Montreal has been a roller-coaster since election night. Auguste held a 35-vote lead then, but a post-election validation process gave Sinclair-Desgagné a 44-vote lead. Yesterday’s official judge-certified recount gave the win to 24-year-old Tatiana Auguste, running in her first-ever political race.

The Liberals inched another seat closer to a majority government on Saturday, after a judicial recount left their candidate as the winner in the Quebec riding of Terrebone, by a margin of only one vote. An official with Elections Canada confirmed to The Canadian Press that Liberal Tatiana Auguste will finish ahead of incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné. It brings the Liberals to 170 seats in the House of Commons, two shy of the 172 needed for a majority government. The Bloc seat count falls to 22.

Auguste was initially projected to win the riding by 35 votes after the April 28 election, but …

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