Independent Ontario candidate wins rare and resounding second election victory [Video]

Ontario Independent MPP Bobbi Ann Brady attends Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Bobbi Ann Brady says she set out in this Ontario election to prove that her win in Haldimand-Norfolk as an independent in 2022 was not a fluke.

But, she says, she never imagined she would end up winning by one of the largest margins in the whole province.

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won their third consecutive majority government, but in Haldimand-Norfolk in southern Ontario, Brady soundly defeated her Tory opponent in Thursday’s election by more than 20,000 votes.

She says the Progressive Conservatives “waged war” in the riding, spending money and bringing in cabinet ministers to canvass, but the people in her riding have come to value her independent voice in the legislature.

Brady has PC roots and worked for the Tory representative for the riding for …