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By Chris Brown

'Disgusted' by national results

Motz wins again in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner

Sep 20, 2021 | 8:48 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – Glen Motz has been re-elected by the people of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner.

Motz says he’s pleased with the local result and praised his campaign team. Nationally, he says he’s incredibly disappointed.

“I was certainly hoping for a different result,” Motz said Monday evening. “I think Justin Trudeau should take a hike personally and step away from what he is trying to do to ruin this country. I’m actually surprised and disgusted at the results I’m seeing down east.”

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The Conservative Party of Canada candidate won the riding in a landslide for the third time. At 9:41 p.m., with 135 of 229 polls reporting, Motz leads with 64.3 per cent of the vote. Jocelyn Stenger of the NDP is a distant second with 15 per cent of the vote.

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Motz, a former inspector in the Medicine Hat Police Service, was first elected in a byelection in 2016 and won his first general election in 2019.

In the byelection he earned 69.9 per cent of the vote, placing well ahead of Liberal candidate Stan Sakamoto with 25.6 per cent. In 2019 he topped that, taking 79.2 per cent of the vote. The NDP’s Elizabeth Thomson placed second with 8.7 per cent.