The race in University-Rosedale had been seen as a dead heat just weeks leading up to the Oct. 19 election, but University of Toronto political professor Nelson Wiseman says the riding was likely never going to become an NDP seat.
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Freeland took 27,806 votes for 49.8 percent of the ballots, more than 20 ahead of runner-up NDP candidate Jennifer Hollett. Conservative Karim Jivraj was third with 17.5 percent and the Green’s Nick Wright fourth with 2.9 percent.
Read MoreThere’s less than a week left in the 2015 federal election, and while recent projections are consistently placing the Liberals in
Read MoreAs of Sept. 27, University-Rosedale Conservative candidate Karim Jivraj was projected by ThreeHundredEight.com to receive 17.2 percent of the vote, while the Liberal’s Chrystia Freeland was at 40.6 percent and NDP candidate Jennifer Hollett 35.2 percent.
Read MoreUniversity-Rosedale is a new electoral district, stretching roughly from Dupont Street and the Beltline Trail in the north to Bloor Street East and Dundas Street West in the south, and from Ossington Avenue in the west to Bayview Avenue in the east.
Read MoreFormer journalist Jennifer Hollett will be the NDP candidate in the new riding of University-Rosedale in October’s federal election. The 39-year-old Annex resident, who worked with CBC, CTV and MuchMusic during her decade-spanning TV career before pursuing a master’s degree in public administration at Harvard University, launched her campaign on May 31.
Read MoreFormer journalist Jennifer Hollett won the nomination to be the NDP candidate in the newly formed University—Rosedale riding on Feb. 5.
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