After the count, Elections Canada confirms the victory of the Bloc Québécois in Trois-Rivières | The Canadian News

The Bloc Québécois is confirmed as the winner of the Trois-Rivières Québec horse riding after a judicial recount.

Elections Canada says the Bloc beat the Conservatives by 83 votes, after the votes were counted again.

Conservatives went to court to request a recount to verify the original result, which had the Bloc winning the seat by 92 votes.

Elections Canada confirms that bloc candidate Rene Villemure won the Quebec race with 17,136 votes.

Conservative candidate Yves Lévesque came in second with 17,053 votes.

Trois-Rivières is the second judicial recount in Quebec.

The Liberals won another seat on Wednesday after Elections Canada confirmed that Brenda Shanahan beat the Bloc candidate in Châteauguay-Lacolle by just 12 votes.

The recount annulled the election night result that had the Liberals losing to the Bloc in the parade.

Next week, the votes will be counted on Toronto’s walk through Davenport, where the NDP lost to the Liberals by 76 votes.

2:05The liberal parliamentarian wins the third term in Châteauguay-Lacolle after the count steals the victory from the Bloc Québécois