With final mail-in ballots counted, 91原创-Aldergrove鈥檚 Conservative candidate Tako van Popta has retained a strong lead to win a second term.
Van Popta, a lawyer and former director of the Surrey Board of Trade before he ran for office, received 28,644 votes in total, 45.7 per cent of the vote.
Liberal Kim Richter, a longtime Township councillor, received 16,585, for 26.5 per cent of the vote, and the NDP鈥檚 Michael Chang received 12,288 votes, 19.6 per cent.
The PPC candidate Rayna Boychunk received 3,341 votes, 5.3 per cent, and Green candidate Kaija Farstad got 1,799, 2.9 per cent.
This is Van Popta鈥檚 second term in the riding. He took up the reins from Mark Warawa, the long-serving Conservative MP who represented the 91原创 and then 91原创-Aldergrove ridings from 2004 until his death from cancer in 2019.
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