Terrebonne riding recount begins Thursday: Elections Canada
Canadian Politics
A judicial recount of the votes in Quebec's Terrebonne riding will begin Thursday, chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault announced on Wednesday.
The count, conducted by Justice Danielle Turcotte of the Superior Court of Quebec's Terrebonne district, will be carried out at 3235 de la Gare Ave. in Mascouche, and the result published on elections.ca after it is complete.
On election night, the riding's lead swung back and forth, and final preliminary results showed a narrow 25-vote win for Liberal challenger Tatiana Auguste. But when the tallies were validated, they showed a 44-vote lead for Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné.
A judicial recount is triggered automatically when the margin of victory is less than 0.1 per cent of valid votes cast. Elections Canada's validated results indicate that 60,204 valid votes were cast in the riding and 903 ballots were rejected. Preliminary results said there were 60,130 valid votes.
Terrebonne election results
Validated results, before judicial recount. Rejected ballots: 903 (1.5%)
Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Bloc Québécois): 23,340 (38.8%)
Tatiana Auguste (Liberal Party of Canada): 23,296 (38.7%)
Adrienne Charles (Conservative Party of Canada): 10,956 (18.2%)
Maxime Beaudoin (New Democratic Party): 1,552 (2.6%)
Benjamin Rankin (Green Party of Canada): 632 (1.0%)
Maria Cantore (People's Party of Canada): 428 (0.7%)
Perrault also announced that 822 national special ballots were mistakenly kept at the office of the returning officer in British Columbia's Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam riding, and according to the law cannot be counted. The ballots were mainly for that riding (530) or neighbouring ridings, but a total of 74 ridings nationwide had at least one cast ballot affected. Terrebonne is not one of them.
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