The federal riding of South Shore—St. Margarets, in line with a global wave of wins for political centrists, has elected the Liberal Party of Canada’s Jessica Fancy-Landry.

Fancy-Landry’s win came after an unprecedented election campaign that, according to the polling aggregator 338Canada website, went from Conservative Party incumbent Rick Perkins having a safe hold on re-election in February to a neck-and-neck race with the Liberal candidate in March.

Fancy-Landry finished the election with 54.9% of all valid votes, while Perkins received 41.1%.

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