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Thursday, January 3, 2008

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MPP Jim Wilson easily won re-election Wednesday even while he watched many fellow Progressive Conservatives go down to defeat as Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Liberal Party maintained their majority at Queen’s Park.

 

The 17 year MPP watched the results come in at his Collingwood campaign office.

 

Wilson only lost a handful of polls across the entire riding and most of them by only a couple of votes as he once again gained over 50% of the popular vote (51.47% four years ago).

 

The big difference this time out in the Simcoe-Grey voting pattern was the rise of the Green Party who took a lot of Liberal votes. The Liberals only gained 26% of the vote for Steven Fishman while Mark Redmond took 34.5% four years ago.

 

Peter Ellis of the Green jumped to become the third party in voter support with 11.4% shoving the Katy Austin led NDP into fourth place with 9.2%.

 

While admitting the faith-based funding issue “just didn’t catch on” and hurt John Tory and the PCs, Wilson said his own campaign was based on “a lot of local issues.”

 

He said he would hold McGuinty’s “feet to the fire” respectfully on some of the promises that Fishman made on behalf of the power like restarting the construction of Hwy. 26,, a new high school for Wasaga Beach, redeveloping Elmvale District High School, expanding the number of hospital beds in Collingwood, reopening the birthing unit at Stevenson Memorial and doing something to preserve the Banting Homestead.

 

 

 

 

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