Liberals Hold On To Cape Breton Seats

by Bobby NockOctober 22, 2019

Cape Breton is still Liberal red this morning after a minority win for the party in the federal election.

Mike Kelloway holds on to Cape Breton-Canso for the Liberals after defeating the Conservatives’ Alfie MacLeod by more than 16-hundred votes.

Jaime Battiste is the new Liberal MP for Sydney-Victoria.

Battiste will be the first Mi’kmaq Member of Parliament and first indigenous MP from Nova Scotia.

He took Sydney-Victoria with more than 13-hundred votes than Conservative challenger Eddie Orrell.

Bobby Nock

Bobby grew up in Whycocomagh before moving to Halifax to attend university where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism degree. After university, Bobby moved back to Cape Breton where he began working as a freelance journalist and has done work for both print media and as a broadcast journalist. As the News Director, Bobby Nock will get your day started by bringing you information that helps connect you to the community with all the latest in local news.

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