Liberals Hold On To Cape Breton Seats

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

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.