Canada’s Ontario election: NDP chief Jagmeet Singh’s brother Gurrattan Singh is trailing from Brampton East Riding

Tribune News Service

Ottawa/Toronto/Chandigarh, June 3

The Progressive Conservative party was projected to win re-election Thursday evening in Ontario, the country’s most populous province, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp said, handing a second term to premier Doug Ford.

The right-leaning Progressive Conservatives would win a majority of the provincial legislature’s 124 seats, CBC projected, shortly after the close of voting. The party held 67 in the last legislature.

Hardeep Grewal from Brampton East, Prabmeet Sarakaria from Brampton South, Amarjit Sandhu from Brampton West, Nina Tangra from Mississauga Streetville, Deepak Anand from Mississauga Malton and Param Gill from Milton are leading in Ontario provincal polls.

In a major upset, NDP president Jagmeet Singh’s brother Gurrattan Singh is trailing against Hardeep Grewal from Brampton East Riding.

The projected outcome came quickly despite some election-day hiccups. Elections Ontario extended voting for up to two hours in some polls in 19 different electoral districts after delays to the start of voting.

Ford’s Progressive Conservatives swept to power in 2018 after 15 years of Liberal rule.

Ontario, home to just under 40% of Canada’s 38.2 million people, is Canada’s manufacturing heartland. It is also one of the world’s largest sub-sovereign borrowers, with publicly held debt currently standing at C$418.7 billion ($330.8 billion).

with Reuters inputs