Recount for Terra Nova-The Peninsulas scheduled for Monday

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A day has been acceptable for a recount that volition determine the result of a agrarian Newfoundland and Labrador national riding.

Newly redrawn riding is tightest predetermination contention successful Canada

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· Posted: May 09, 2025 1:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

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A day has been acceptable for a recount that volition determine the result of a agrarian Newfoundland and Labrador riding — the tightest ongoing national predetermination contention successful Canada.

The exertion for a judicial review for the riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas was made connected Friday greeting astatine a tribunal proceeding successful Grand Bank, which Supreme Court Justice Garrett Handrigan approved.

The recount volition instrumentality spot astatine St. Gabriel's Hall successful Marystown, starting connected Monday astatine 9 a.m. NT. The process is expected to instrumentality 2 oregon 3 days.

The recount determines whether Liberal Anthony Germain maintains his seat, oregon if Conservative campaigner Jonathan Rowe volition flip the riding blue.

Lawyers for Elections Canada, the Liberals and Conservatives set the details of the recount successful tribunal connected Friday. They argued over who would pay for lunch, how galore tables volition beryllium acceptable up for the recount and who tin beryllium successful the room.

WATCH | CBC's Heather Gillis breaks down however a recount works:

Here’s however the recount successful Terra Nova - The Peninsulas volition work

It was excessively adjacent to telephone connected predetermination night, but Liberal campaigner Anthony Germain defeated Conservative Jonathan Rowe successful Terra Nova - The Peninsulas by conscionable 12 votes. It’s a triumph truthful tiny that it automatically goes to a recount. Here and Now’s Heather Gillis breaks down the recount rules and what the candidates think.

On April 29, a time aft the national election, it was announced Germain, a erstwhile teacher and longtime CBC broadcaster, had defeated Rowe by conscionable 12 votes — the closest borderline of triumph of immoderate riding in Canada.

A judicial recount happens automatically if the quality betwixt the starring 2 candidates is little than 1 one-thousandth of the full votes cast, according to Elections Canada.

Germain received 19,704 votes to Rowe's 19,692. The small margin triggered the recount.

As the votes were being tallied connected predetermination day, Rowe held the pb for astir of the evening, but the situation became a toss-up by the clip Elections Canada deed pause on the count successful the aboriginal greeting hours connected Tuesday.

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