Incumbents projected winners in northwestern Ontario
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Current projections are showing Northwestern Ontario's four provincial ridings will be represented by some familiar faces at Queen's Park.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative party was projected as the provincial government on Thursday. The victory marked the third-straight majority for the PCs.
Northwestern Ontario didn't vote for change, either: voters in all four of the region's ridings we re-elected the incumbents, according to projections.
Thunder Bay-Superior North
Lise Vaugeois of the Ontario NDP is the projected winner in Thunder Bay-Superior North. With 78 out of 82 polls reporting, Vaugeois had earned just over 11,200 votes, which is about 41 per cent of the riding's vote share.
Rick Dumas, PC candidate and mayor of Marathon, projected second in the riding, with about 2,000 votes less than Vaugeois.
Liberal Brian Hamilton, who's also a member of Thunder Bay City Council, projected in third place, and John Northey of the Green Party finished the night in fourth place in the riding.
Thunder Bay-Atikokan
PC Kevin Holland is the projected winner in Thunder Bay-Atikokan.
With 69 out of 73 polls reporting, Holland had earned 13,355 votes, or 45.5 per cent of votes cast in the riding.
The NDP's Judith Monteith-Farrell projected second place with about 7,600 votes, and Liberal Stephen Margarit in third with about 300 fewer votes than Monteith-Farrell.
Kiiwetinoong
NDP incumbent Sol Mamawka held on to his seat in Thursday's election, according to projections.
With 32 of the riding's 51 polls reporting, Mamakwa had already pulled far ahead of PC Waylon Scott, who was in second place.
Mamakwa had about 2,100 votes, or 62 per cent of the votes cast in Kiiwetinoong. Scott was at 902 votes.
Liberal Manuela Michelizzi projected third with 245 votes, and Green Party candidate Carolyn Spicer rounded out the top four with 81 votes.
Kenora-Rainy River
Finally, the residents of Kenora-Rainy River will continue to be represented by Greg Rickford according to projections.
With 101 of the riding's 105 polls reporting, Rickford had a comfortable lead with 10,099 votes, or 59.7 per cent of the vote share.
The second-place candidate, the NDP's Rudy Turtle, had 3,209 ballots cast for him, while Liberal Anthony Leek was at 2,978.
Green Party candidate John Redins had 329 votes.
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