Coombes Wins Cape Breton Centre By-Election

by Bobby NockMarch 11, 2020

Regional Councillor Kendra Coombes is the new NDP MLA for Cape Breton Centre.

Coombes got 2,731 votes in unofficial results in yesterday’s by-election.

She beat second place Liberal candidate Dave Wilton by 740 votes.

Progressive Conservative Louie Pioveson came in third with 1,567 votes.

The Greens’ Adrianna MacKinnon picked up 76 votes.

Voter turnout was 51.6 per cent.

Meanwhile, Progressive Conservative David Ritcey won yesterday’s other by-election in Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River.

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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