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CBC
29-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Raquel Dancho holds on to Kildonan-St. Paul seat for Conservatives after tight race with Liberals
Liberal Thomas Naaykens, a political novice, lost to Dancho by just over 1,500 votes in Winnipeg-area riding Kildonan-St. Paul will be held by incumbent Conservative candidate Raquel Dancho, in a race that stretched out into the day after Canada's 2025 election, as final votes were counted in the Winnipeg-area riding. With all 208 polls reporting by about 3 p.m. CT Tuesday afternoon, Dancho came out ahead of Liberal challenger Thomas Naaykens by 1,548 votes, marking her third victory in the riding she was first elected to in 2019. Kildonan-St. Paul has voted Conservative six times during the past seven elections. Naaykens, who studied accounting and served in the Canadian military as an armour officer, was one of several political novices who won a Liberal Party nomination by acclamation this past winter, when the polls suggested the Liberals faced electoral disaster under then-leader Justin Trudeau. The election comes after new boundaries were drawn for ridings including Kildonan-St. Paul, where the changes appear to favour the Conservatives. 3 Manitoba seats change hands as Liberals take 2, Conservatives win Elmwood-Transcona, CBC projects Since the 2021 election, the riding has been extended to the east and now encompasses Conservative-leaning polling areas inside the rural municipality of Springfield, including the Winnipeg bedroom community of Oakbank. Kildonan-St. Paul was among a number of ridings across Canada where results were too close to call on Monday's election night, as ballots continued to be counted into Tuesday afternoon — including ridings that would decide whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's re-elected Liberals would form a majority or minority government. By Tuesday afternoon, CBC News had projected the Liberals will form a minority government. Manitoba's premier congratulated Carney and his party on their election victory in a social media post on Tuesday, saying he looks forward to "building up this country" with Carney's federal government. The results in Kildonan-St. Paul were the last of the 14 ridings in Manitoba to be called, with the Conservatives coming out of the election with seven seats — the same number the party went in with. Meanwhile, the Liberals improved from four Manitoba seats to six, and the NDP dwindled from three seats to just one. The Conservative seats are concentrated largely in rural Manitoba, while the Liberals' seats are in Winnipeg and northern Manitoba. The province's lone NDP seat is in the inner-city Winnipeg Centre riding.
CBC
29-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Raquel Dancho holds on to Winnipeg's Kildonan-St. Paul seat for Conservatives after tight race with Liberals
Manitoba's Kildonan-St. Paul riding will be held by incumbent Conservative candidate Raquel Dancho, in a race that stretched out into the day after Canada's 2025 election, as final votes were counted in the Winnipeg-area riding. Dancho came out ahead of Liberal challenger Thomas Naaykens — marking her third victory in the riding she was first elected to in 2019. Kildonan-St. Paul has voted Conservative six times during the past seven elections. Naaykens, who studied accounting and served in the Canadian military as an armour officer, was one of several political novices who won a Liberal Party nomination by acclamation this past winter, when the polls suggested the Liberals faced electoral disaster under then-leader Justin Trudeau.
Winnipeg Free Press
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘Hang tight': Tory candidate in Kildonan-St. Paul
Conservative MP Raquel Dancho urged supporters to remain patient as they continued waiting for advanced polling results in a standing-room only event late Monday. Shortly before midnight, the veteran politician finally addressed a crowd of roughly 50 Conservatives packed into a storefront-turned-campaign-office on Henderson Highway. 'If the results hold tight for Kildonan-St. Paul, you're sending a fighter back to Ottawa,' the 35-year-old told the event. At the time, about 3 1/2 hours after polls closed, she was holding onto 48 per cent of the vote with 78 per cent of polls reporting. Dancho thanked scrutineers for their hard work and expressed her disappointment that the Conservatives did not win the election. At the same time, she shared words of encouragement. 'Conservatives, we work our butts off to win elections across the country and we're going to keep doing that… Don't give up hope,' she said, noting that the Tories built slowly and steadily under former prime minister Stephen Harper in the lead up to his 2011 majority.
Winnipeg Free Press
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
News briefs for Tuesday, April 29, 2025
A collection of breaking news briefs filed on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12:07 AM Conservative MP Raquel Dancho urged supporters to remain patient as they continued waiting for advanced polling results in a standing-room only event late Monday. Shortly before midnight, the veteran politician finally addressed a crowd of roughly 50 Conservatives packed into a storefront-turned-campaign-office on Henderson Highway. 'If the results hold tight for Kildonan-St. Paul, you're sending a fighter back to Ottawa,' the 35-year-old told the event. At the time, about 3 1/2 hours after polls closed, she was holding onto 48 per cent of the vote with 78 per cent of polls reporting. Dancho thanked scrutineers for their hard work and expressed her disappointment that the Conservatives did not win the election. At the same time, she shared words of encouragement. 'Conservatives, we work our butts off to win elections across the country and we're going to keep doing that… Don't give up hope,' she said, noting that the Tories built slowly and steadily under former prime minister Stephen Harper in the lead up to his 2011 majority.
Winnipeg Free Press
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Dancho poised to keep Kildonan-St. Paul Tory-blue for a third time
Raquel Dancho's tried-and-true campaign tactics appear to have kept Kildonan-St. Paul blue. Dancho, 35, is expected to return to Parliament Hill to represent residents of northeastern Winnipeg and surrounding municipalities. The incumbent Conservative looked to be on her way to securing her third term Monday night, although it was a tighter race than in years past. Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Conservative Party MP Raquel Dancho is expected to return to Parliament Hill to represent residents of the Kildonan-St. Paul riding. With 150 of 208 polls — 70 per cent of them — reporting at 11:10 p.m., she had 49 per cent of the vote. Dancho's re-election campaign barred media entry to her election-night party, pending the results of the race. Runner-up Thomas Naaykens, a first-time candidate who ran under the Liberals' banner, was trailing with 42 per cent of the vote. NDP candidate Emily Clark less than eight per cent of the vote. Naaykens was pacing around a warehouse in the riding decorated in red-and-white streamers and balloons shortly after the polls closed. 'I'd like the time to go by a little quicker,' the 36-year-old said with a nervous chuckle as he made small talk with supporters, stealing glances at the ever-changing early polling results on a live national broadcast. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. The room erupted into cheers when broadcast projected a Liberal government. It quieted as results poured in for Kildonan-St. Paul. Naaykens said he was physically exhausted and, regardless of the outcome, proud of his team of volunteers and all the ground they covered over the last 36 days. His team's calculations indicate he walked about 15 kilometres daily during the campaign. He estimated that he knocked on 500 doors every day. Multiple last-minute voters who flocked to a polling station at Garden City Shopping Centre said they wanted 'change,' in response to questions about what had influenced their decision at the ballot box.
