4 races in Waterloo region remain too close to call

Kate Bueckert · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 9:19 AM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

Four races successful Waterloo portion remained excessively adjacent to telephone and volition request the mail-in ballots to beryllium counted to corroborate who has won.

In 3 of the 4 ridings, Conservatives were starring which would effect successful flipping those seats from being held by Liberals and a Green MP.

In Cambridge, Conservative campaigner Connie Cody was starring with 1,577 votes much than Liberal incumbent Bryan May. May has been the MP for the riding since 2015.

In Kitchener Centre, it's a overmuch person race. Conservative campaigner Kelly DeRidder had a 423 ballot pb implicit Green incumbent Mike Morrice.

This contention was precise adjacent for the apical 3 candidates for overmuch of the night. On Tuesday morning, DeRidder had 20,013 votes, Morrice had 19,590 and Liberal Brian Adeba had 17,021 votes.

The contention successful Kitchener-Conestoga ping-ponged passim the nighttime arsenic results were reported betwixt the Liberal incumbent Tim Louis and Conservative campaigner Doug Treleaven. As of Tuesday morning, Louis held a 371 ballot pb implicit Treleaven.

This is precise overmuch a two-candidate contention arsenic NDP campaigner Maya Bozorgzad was successful 3rd with 1,803, trailing Louis by 27,785 votes.

In Kitchener South-Hespeler, Conservative Matt Strauss had 28,555 votes, which is 1,148 over Liberal incumbent Valerie Bradford's 27,407 votes. In this riding, it appeared to beryllium a two-person contention with NDP campaigner Lorne Bruce was 3rd with 1,791 votes.

Nationally, the Liberals led by Mark Carney won the election; however, galore races crossed the state remained excessively adjacent to telephone arsenic of Tuesday greeting truthful it was unclear if the Liberals would person a number oregon a bulk government.

Elections Canada said mail-in ballot counting would statesman astatine 9:30 a.m. connected Tuesday.

Local incumbents win, caller MP successful Guelph

The archetypal section contention to beryllium called connected Monday nighttime was Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger, who has served arsenic a Liberal MP since 2015.

Conservative incumbents Michael Chong in Wellington-Halton Hills North and John Nater successful Perth-Wellington some besides won their seats aboriginal successful the evening.

In Guelph, Liberal Dominique O'Rourke won the seat, which had been near vacant by Liberal MP Lloyd Longfield, who opted not to tally again successful this election.

O'Rourke is simply a sitting metropolis councillor who volition present request to resign her seat. Council volition state her spot vacant, past determine however to capable it, either by a byelection oregon going done the process of appointing someone.