Lamoureux leads in Winnipeg North

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Winnipeg North looks to join Canada’s renewed red wave as incumbent Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux takes the lead.

Lamoureux held 57.1 per cent of the vote with 60 of 152 polls reporting.

Conservative candidate Rachel Punzalan is coming up second with 35 per cent of the vote. Also running are NDP candidate Adebayo Akinrogunde, People’s Party of Canada candidate Jessica Bailon, Communist Party candidate Sarah Borbridge.

Lamoureux has represented Winnipeg North for the past 15 years. He was the most popular Winnipeg candidate in the 2021 federal election, winning 52.3 per cent of the vote – a higher percentage of support than any of the other urban candidates pulled in for their respective ridings.

Before Lamoureux won the seat for the Liberals in a 2010 byelection, the riding was an NDP stronghold dating to the early 1960s. It flipped only once – to the Liberals for two terms ending in 1997 – before Lamoureux entered the federal race. Since then, he’s built a reputation as a hardworking public servant who meets with constituents weekly at a Keewatin Street McDonald’s.