A former councillor, a political organizer and the old MP's assistant are running for the Avalon riding

Malone Mullin · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 5:09 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The Avalon riding stretches from Bay Roberts to Trepassey, and 3 candidates are connected the ballot travel Monday.

On April 28, voters volition elite a caller representative, taking implicit for longtime Liberal MP Ken McDonald.

Here are the candidates for Avalon:

Paul Connors, Liberal Party

Paul Connors was McDonald's close manus antheral – his enforcement assistant, a occupation helium took aft moving arsenic the enforcement manager for the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture.

"I've ever wanted to instrumentality enactment roles successful our town," helium said of his existent home, Conception Bay South, wherever helium was a municipality councillor for 2 terms.

He's proceeding a batch of uncertainty astir Canada's economical aboriginal astatine the doors.

"People are acrophobic with … [U.S. President] Donald Trump and however tariffs are going to interaction their lives," helium said. "And astir radical are looking for a beardown dependable [to lead]."

Connors argues Liberal Leader Mark Carney is the 1 for that job, with his acquisition negotiating and rebuilding economies.

"This is the close time," helium said, suggesting Carney is the champion prime to woody with threats from the U.S. "We person a caller leader, a caller imaginativeness for the country."

He says the spot of the riding besides lies successful McDonald's unit and their acquisition successful the region. 

"If idiosyncratic called his office, we would … effort to assistance radical retired with everything that we perchance could," helium said.

"[We] whitethorn not get each the answers that radical like, but we decidedly got them answers, and we worked hard for the residents … of the Avalon riding."

Steve Kent, Conservative Party

Steve Kent, moving for the Conservatives, is simply a erstwhile PC MHA and municipal head with the City of Mount Pearl.

His information for the candidacy prompted choler among two different contenders past month, who had already been campaigning for the occupation but were sidelined by the party's determination to name Kent instead.

Despite repeated requests for an interview, Kent refused to talk to CBC reporters, making him the 4th of 7 Conservative candidates to diminution an interrogation up of the election.

Judy Vanta, New Democratic Party

The authoritative campaigner leafage for Judy Vanta calls her a "long-time NDP protagonist and organizer who is committed to the halfway values of the NDP: warring for mundane Newfoundlanders and Labradorians."

Judy Vanta besides refused an interrogation with CBC, contempt repeated requests.

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