Unofficial election results for the federal riding of Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies show a projected win for Conservative candidate Mel Arnold.
As of Monday, April 28, with 151 of 243 polls reported, Arnold had 55 per cent of the vote, leading Ken Robertson (Liberal, 35 per cent), Phaedra Idzan (NDP, six per cent), Owen Madden (Green, three per cent), and Michael Henry (People’s Party of Canada, one per cent).
Nationally, the Liberal Party of Canada was poised to form government.
Arnold, from Salmon Arm, was first elected as the Conservative Party's candidate for the North Okanagan-Shuswap riding in 2015. He received 39.3 per cent of the vote, beating out then Liberal candidate Cindy Derkaz with 29.95 per cent. In the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, Arnold swept the riding with 48.76 and 46.4 per cent of the vote.
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