Todd Smith re-elected in Bay of Quinte

Progressive Conservative incumbent Todd Smith has been re-elected in Bay ofQuinte.

With all of the polls reporting, Smith has 48per cent of the vote, with8,189 more votes more than his closest competitor, the NDP's JoanneBelanger.

Belangerfinished with 31.8 per cent of the vote andLiberal RobertQuaiff, the mayor of Prince Edward County has 14.9 per cent.

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While Smith is the incumbent,redistribution has made this a far different riding than the one he represented for the past two terms.

The new riding of Bay ofQuinteis only about one-fifth of the size of the former Prince Edward-Hastingsriding.The riding's boundaries includethe county of Prince Edward, the city of Quinte Westand part of Belleville, but it no longer includes Hastings orTyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

In the last election Smith defeated the Liberals by more than 4,000 votes. But a poll-by-poll count of votes cast only in the area that constitutes the new Bay of Quinteriding would have resulted in a much different outcome a PC win by fewer than 600 votes, or about oneper cent of the popular vote.

Also running in the riding were:

• Mark Daye for the Green Party.
• James Engelsman for the Trillium Party.
• Cindy Davidson for the Ontario Libertarian Party.
• Paul Bordonaro as an independent.