Ontario Election: 30-Year MPP Ernie Hardeman Wins Ninth Term in Oxford

Woodstock-First Elected 30 Years Ago, Ernie Hardeman is Headed Back to Queen’s Park After Winning His Woodstock-Area Riding for the Progressive Conservative On Thursday Night for the Ninth Time.

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Hardeman, The Longest-Serving MPP in Oxford’s History, Easily Beat Out Rivals Bernia Martin of the Liberals and New Democratic Party candidate Khadijah Haliru. Hardeman Took 55 per hundred of the vote, more than double the support for the second-place Martin.

“What i’m Most Looking Forward to are Going Back to look after what I was elected to do,” Hardeman Said as he celebrated the Victory at the Legion Branch in Woodstock. “Having an election is nerve-wcking, but what’s even more nerve-racking is having to explain to people. . . that i can’t help with a problem because I’m not the mpp. ”

Hardeman Said His First Order of Business After Being Re-Elect is to get “All the (Campaign) Signs back in my Barn Again.”

Hardeman Got His Fothold in Ontario Politics in 1995, Defeating New Democrat Kimble Sutherland to Win the Seat for the Mike Harris-Led Tories.

Fast-Growing Oxford, Where Southwestern Ontario’s Auto and Agricultural Belts Meet, is one of the Area Ridings where the Threat of Trade Tariffs Slapped on Canada by Us President Donald Trump Hung Heavy in the background of the Campaign election.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford Called the Early Election Becaus of That Threat, Saying He Needed a Strong Mandate to Deal with the Potential Fallout to Ontario’s Economy.

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Oxford is home to Two Major Auto Assembly Plants, Toyota’s Woodstock Factory and the General Motors-Owned Cami Plant in Ingersoll, and a Vast Dairy Belt. Both the Auto and Agricultural Sectors COULD Be Hurt IF American Tariffs Are Slapped on Canadian Exports.

Long One of the Most Small-C Conservative Ridings in Ontario, Oxford has been growing rapidly. In January Oxford County Snagged Nearly $ 7 million from Queen’s Park to help build and kept infrastructure to support potential construction of nearly 4,800 homes.

Hardeman praised not only the number of possible new homes, but also their rental, noting farmland wouldn’t be affected.

“I want to protect agriculture land,” The training agriculture minister said. “Every Time We Can Help with Serviching and Building More Density On The Land That’s Already Urbanized, I Think, is good news for all of us.”

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An agriculture minister to booth form pc premier mike harris and to ford in the first of his two governs, Hardeman was shuffled out of ford’s cabinet in 2021, surprise many.

The Liberal Candidate, Martin, Said She Felt “Really, Really good” about the Election Results.

“We Sitting at 11,000 votes, which for our first out at the provincial level seems like an incredible accomplishment,” She Said. “That is 11,000 people that were ready for change.

“We’re ready for the next opportunity to run provincially, where that a byeleleration or an election.”

The ndp has won the riding only only only, in 1990. The Liberals Last Won It 38 Years Ago.

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Oxford Results

(With 64 of 64 Polls Reporting)

Ernie Hardeman, PC* – 27,061

Bernia Martin, Liberal – 11,348

Khadijah Haliru, ndp – 5.374

Colton Kaufman, Green – 2.182

Grace Harper, Ontario Party – 1.414

Peter Beimers, New Blue – 1.317

Henryk Szymczyn, Libertarian – 276

*MPP in last legislature

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