The Waterloo riding is back, and it’s as red as it was when it disappeared.
With 198 of 231 polls reporting, Bardish Chagger had been declared the riding’s winner and held a lead of about 7,500 votes over Peter Braid, the Conservative who had held it since 2008.
Running for the NDP, city councillor Diane Freeman had tallied 14.7 per cent of the votes at that point.
Also on the ballot were Richard Walsh of the Green Party and Animal Alliance Party candidate Emma Hawley-Yan.
Voters last marked ballots in a riding called Waterloo in 1993, when Andrew Telegdi won it for the Liberal Party.
It was then turned into the Kitchener-Waterloo riding, encompassing northern parts of the southern city.
Telegdi – with Chagger working for him – remained the MP for Kitchener-Waterloo until 2008, when he was unseated by Braid.
The new riding of Waterloo is comprised of the entire city of Waterloo, as well as parts of Kitchener’s Bridgeport neighbourhood.
