angus reelected 2015While the rest of the country was busy painting their ridings red, Charlie Angus has retained his seat in Timmins-James Bay.

The NDP incumbent won a seat for the fifth federal election in a row, but will return to Ottawa with a Parliament that will seem a bit different.

Angus says he’s honoured to represent the region, and never takes the job for granted.

Angus congratulates Justin Trudeau and his Liberals on the majority government, and the NDP plans to work with them as they come into power.

Angus says the NDP and Liberals agree to many different issues, and wants to see some action on them.

The results trickled in just after 7pm, as the Liberals dominated Atlantic Canada.  From there, they continued to pick up seats in new and old ridings alike en route to the win.

One riding is nearby Nipissing-Timiskaming, that didn’t leave votes to chance.  Candidate Anthony Rota (Liberal) unseated Jay Aspin (Conservative) by over 10,000 votes, much different than the 18 vote difference four years ago.

Angus says they might have four years to re-build the party that’s now in the third spot in Ottawa, but reminded the crowd of something said to him by former NDP Leader, the late Jack Layton.

“You have to have a dream that’s longer than a lifetime, it’s about something bigger,” Angus recalled.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper will step down, but NDP Leader Tom Mulcair will stay put.

Angus fielded a couple questions on if he would ever consider running for party leadership if Mulcair to stepped down.  He says he has his confidence in Mulcair, and will look at things if a decision needs to be looked at.

Angus won with 41.8% of the vote.

Todd Lever (Liberal) placed second with just over 38% of the vote, John Curley (Conservative) came up third at 21.1% and Max Kennedy (Green) finished fourth at 2.3%. (Numbers after 180 of 185 polls reporting.)

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