{"id":8621,"date":"2025-04-29T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:28:03","slug":"queens-county-native-jessica-fancy-landry-counts-convicing-win-in-south-shore-st-margarets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/queens-county-native-jessica-fancy-landry-counts-convicing-win-in-south-shore-st-margarets\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County native Jessica Fancy-Landry counts convicing win in South Shore-St. Margarets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly elected South Shore-St. Margarets MP Jessica Fancy-Landry speaks to a voter in Liverpool earlier in the campaign. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

UPDATED TUESDAY at 5:20 P.M.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters in South Shore-St. Margarets went back to the Liberals on Monday night, electing first-time candidate Jessica Fancy-Landry in a decisive victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fancy-Landry beat Conservative incumbent Rick Perkins by about 7,000 votes, grabbing 55 per cent support.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Liberal got 27,871 votes to Perkins\u2019s 20,854, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was our positivity,\u201d she told QCCR in an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran a very positive and clean and energetic campaign and I think that really resonated with a lot of people here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Turnout in the riding was just over 72 per cent, which was higher than the national rate of about 67 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fancy-Landry is originally from Caledonia and now lives in Bridgewater. She\u2019s a teacher at Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perkins was first elected in 2021, ousting then-fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fancy-Landry said the big issue on the campaign trail was affordability and people\u2019s concerns over the cost of living.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, Trump and tariffs and then being a coastal riding, definitely fisheries,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I really think right now it\u2019s time to unify all of our community and really build on this positivity and build trust back where the Liberal Party might have lost trust in a couple of different areas within the riding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She said she believes growing up in the area helped cement her win.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that was my secret sauce. We need someone who has been here, has their feet on the street, has raised their kids here and really knows those intimate concerns and issues for the area and has the connections to bring people together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really think it was that positivity in bringing people together that really spoke to a lot of people because politics right now is just so divisive. And we need to unify as a nation. And I really felt like \u2026 now that we have that mandate, we can start doing a lot of really good work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She said she\u2019s already heard from municipal leaders from around the riding, as well as other Liberal MPs to help her in her new role.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fancy-Landry said that in the next few weeks, she\u2019ll be getting orientation as a first-time MP and meeting with the rest of the newly elected Liberal caucus.<\/span><\/p>\n

She\u2019ll also be wrapping up her career as a teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

But she\u2019s looking forward to getting to work as the MP for South Shore-St. Margarets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been my tagline for the last 37 days: \u2018Let\u2019s get to work,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now we\u2019re here and we\u2019ve got to put our money where our mouth is and work really hard for our constituents, all constituents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Green Party\u2019s Mark Embrett finished third with 818 votes. Patrick Boyd of the People\u2019s Party of Canada was the choice of 698 people and independent candidate Hayden Henderson got 460 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections Canada said 50,701 of 70,205 eligible electors voted. That included just over 19,000 people who turned out for advance polls over the Easter weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fancylandrywinsapr2925.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED TUESDAY at 5:20 P.M. Voters in South Shore-St. Margarets went back to the Liberals on Monday night, electing first-time candidate Jessica Fancy-Landry in a decisive victory. Fancy-Landry beat Conservative incumbent Rick Perkins by about 7,000 votes, grabbing 55 per cent support. The Liberal got 27,871 votes to Perkins\u2019s 20,854, according to preliminary results from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3035,358,3048,316,774,385,3046,3030,3055,3047,3031,3054,3032,3044,49,387,389],"class_list":["post-8621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-election","tag-caledonia","tag-conservative-party-of-canada","tag-election","tag-elections-canada","tag-federal-election","tag-green-party-of-canada","tag-jessica-fancy-landry","tag-liberal-government","tag-liberal-party-of-canada","tag-mark-embrett","tag-newly-elected","tag-patrick-boyd","tag-peoples-party-of-canada","tag-queens-county","tag-rick-perkins","tag-south-shore-st-margarets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}