Voters from this District Came Out in Droves for Provincial Election

Over 70 percent of the eligible voters exercised their right to vote in the Torngat Mountains district in this election.

1, 516 people cast their vote through the advanced polls and on Election Day.

That’s 71 percent of the eligible voters.

Tuesday’s winner, newly-elected MHA Randy Edmunds, claimed 744 of those votes.

The incumbent MHA, Patty Pottle, followed in second place with 586 votes, a 158 vote margin.

The Progressive Conservative candidate had strong showings in both Natuashish and her home community of Hopedale where she managed to claim the most votes.

Pottle had 71 votes compared to Edmunds’ 17 votes in Natuashsih.

The newly-elected MHA received the least amount of votes in that community with 11 less than the New Democrat candidate, Alex Saunders.

Saunders gathered 186 of the 1,516 votes cast in each of the communities on Tuesday’s election.

Pottle also claimed the most votes in her home community of Hopedale with 205 votes to Edmunds’ 82.

The incumbent MHA also received the most votes through special ballot.

Edmunds received the most votes in each of the other communities in the Torngat Mountains district.

The chart below provides the results from each community.

Randy Edmunds (LIB) Patty Pottle(PC) Alex Saunders (NDP)
Nain 366/ 148/ 60
Natuashish 17/ 71/ 28
Hopedale 82/ 205/ 23
Postville 63/ 25/ 17
Makkovik 111/ 55/ 31
Rigolet 80/ 50/ 20
Advanced Polls 7/ 7/ 3
Special Ballot 14/ 18/ 3
Total 744/ 586/ 186

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