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Conservative Mel Arnold returns to Ottawa for Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies

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Incumbent Conservative MP Mel Arnold has kept his seat in Parliament.

Arnold, who previously represented the North Okanagan–Shuswap riding, was elected in the Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies riding. At time iNFOnews.ca called it, at 9:15 p.m., he was leading with 56.9% of the vote with 41% of polls reporting. His nearest competitor, Liberal candidate Ken Robertson, had 34.3% of the vote.

The Conservative candidate retained his seat by beating Robertson, NDP candidate Phaedra Idzan, Green Party candidate Owen Madden and People’s Party of Canada candidate Michael Henry.

This is the fourth time Arnold has won a federal election having been first elected in 2015 and his re-election was never much in doubt. Voters in the region have chosen Conservative politicians for decades.


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