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1,UCKNOWSfNTINEL
Box 400 Lucknow, Ontario
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The first few polls from the Huron. Perth
Riding brought joyous shOuts. from the girls
handling the telephones at Graeme Craig's
headquarters at the Blyth Arena.
The first returns showed Craig with 254
votes . and ConserVative Murray Cardiff with
206, and,prompted one Liberal to comment,
"well, at4east we're off to a better start than
last time.''
Optimism continued as returns from Gad.
-erich were tabulated • but receded as the
count from Clinton, Exeter and Wingham
flowed in.
Near the half way Mark when the totals
reached 7200 for Cardiff and 6655 for Craig
-the Liberal candidate said, "I think we are
licked."
Craig said be was well pleased with his
support in Goderich where he lost by only
Bram Fitzgerald
Tony MeQuail, the New Democratic
Party candidate for Huron-Bruce, said ,
he was pleased with the showing the
party had made in traditionally barren
ground of Huron-Bruce, and said
Monday night while watching election
results pour in that if the dr-
, curnstances were the same next time,
he would run again.
The 27-year-old McQuaiL, who farms
near Lucknow, improved the NDP's
Federal vote considerably in the riding
this time: - In May, they polled 7.65
percent of the vote, and nearly doubled
that—to 1111 percent, by picking up
3,864 votes this time.
Progressive Conservative candidate.
Murray Cardiff won the riding with
16,523 votes, defeating Liberal Graeme
Craig, who polled 14,364 votes.
Mr. McQuail said he was pleased
with his showing in an area' that has
never been very favorable to his party.
"I think we're going somewhere," he
said Monday night at a small party
gathering at organizer Paul Carroll's
home in Seaforth.
200 votes. He continued, "we felt if we could
come out even 'in Exeter and Clinton,- we
could afford to lose by 400 in. Goderich, but
-We were wrong."
At 40 p7m, with one poll unreported,
Cardiff had gained 898 votes in Exeter and '
Craigs total was 593 and McQuail had 152.
The Liberal candidate said, "negative press
'reports the last week I think really hurt my
Chances, especially 'the latest issue of Farm
and Country, the Federation of Agriculture
publication which Came out in favonr of
Murray." . Craig continued, am happy
with the. Liberal sweep nationally but we.
Just can't seem to break the.Tory domination
in Huron, Bruce and • Grey Counties." A
Liberal supporter, John Elliott, added, "it
was quite an accomplishinent in cutting the
Tory majority from 9294 votes to 2,159.."
He said that the NDP party offers the
only real alternatiVe to the Liberals
and Conservatives and he was pleased
that people were beginning to see that.
Mr. McQuail, who is an alternate
energy adyocate and a conservationist,
also set a new record for the NDP party
in Huron-Bruce when ,he won three
polls in Huron Park and Vanastra, a'
first for the party.'
The mood of the several dozen
supporters who gathered at Mr.
Carroll's home on IVIonday night was
quiet and sombre at first when the
results from the Maritimes, Quebec,
and Ontario came in, showing that in
those areas the party had lost several
seats, and Wasn't doing as well in
Ontario as they thought they would. At
one point, the gathering sat stunned as
early polls showed even their"leader Ed
Broadbent in trouble, in Oshawa, but
the tide turned for Broadbent and then
for the party as the results from the
prairie provinces and British Columbia
started pouring in, showing the NDP
with a very strong base out west and a
total of 36 seats.
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