{"id":61958,"date":"2021-09-22T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=61958"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:49:52","slug":"sophie-chatel-elected-in-pontiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sophie-chatel-elected-in-pontiac\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Chatel elected in Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal candidate Sophie Chatel has been elected to represent the riding of Pontiac, with 43.2% of the vote, or 25,713 ballots, well ahead of Conservative Michel Gauthier, who finished second with 12,256 votes (20.6%). This was a slight gain from the 16.4% that previous candidate Dave Blackburn achieved in 2019. Similar to the previous race, the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois ran a modest campaign and managed to place third, with candidate Gabrielle Desjardins earning 10,079 votes (16.9%), roughly consistent with her colleague Jonathan Carreiro-Benoit\u2019s finish in 2019 at 16.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Following her commanding win, Chatel spoke with CHIP 101.9 about the campaign and her next steps as the region\u2019s representative. The former civil-servant stepped in to run in the summer after outgoing MP Will Amos announced that he would not be seeking re-election in August.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked the electors of the Pontiac for their support.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-61958-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-thanks.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-thanks.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-thanks.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>When asked if she made any discoveries on the campaign trail, Chatel spoke about the numerous communities and people that she interacted with over the course of the race. She said that her priorities would be sustainable agriculture, protection of the environment and food security.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-61958-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-discoveries-on-campaign.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-discoveries-on-campaign.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-discoveries-on-campaign.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>When asked what her first tasks as an elected official would be, she said that since she is new to the world of politics, she would be seeking the advice of her colleagues on how to be \u201cas effective as possible\u201d noting that there was a lot of work for the federal government to do.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-61958-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-First-steps.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-First-steps.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-First-steps.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Election results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The remaining five candidates finished as follows:<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Denise Giroux - New Democratic Party - 6,497 votes (10.9%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>David Bruce Gottfred - People\u2019s Party of Canada - 2,776 votes (4.7%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Shaughn McArthur - Green Party of Canada - 1,619 votes (2.7%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Genevi\u00e8ve Labont\u00e9-Chartrand - Free Party of Canada - 485 votes (0.8%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>James McNair - Fourth Front Party of Canada - 68 votes (0.1%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal candidate Sophie Chatel has been elected to represent the riding of Pontiac, with 43.2% of the vote, or 25,713 ballots, well ahead of Conservative Michel Gauthier, who finished second with 12,256 votes (20.6%). This was a slight gain from the 16.4% that previous candidate Dave Blackburn achieved in 2019. Similar to the previous race,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":57080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[1219,7819,4225,1507],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61958"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=61958"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=61958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}