Progressive Conservatives win both Ontario byelections

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Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative candidates have won both Ontario byelections.

Progressive Conservative candidate Zee Hamid is holding a nine percentage point lead on Liberal Galen Naidoo Harris with more than 90 percent of polls reporting in Milton, just west of Mississauga

Milton has been vacant since cabinet minister Parm Gill resigned in February to join the federal Conservatives. The Liberal candidate there is Cathy Burghardt-Jesson, the mayor of Lucan Biddulph. Kathryn Shailer is running for the NDP while Andraena Tilgner is the Green candidate.Ford paid Milton a lot of attention during the byelection and in the lead up to it, with announcements on GO Transit service and Highway 413, and has had many cabinet ministers and other caucus members canvassing there.

 

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