ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—The deciding seat in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Liberal minority setup came from a surprising race in Thursday’s election, with an NDP political rookie unseating a Liberal cabinet minister by a slim margin. An official recount is pending but official results released Sunday for the district of Labrador West showed NDP newcomer Jordan Brown still ahead of incumbent Liberal Graham Letto by just five votes. Brown’s was one of three seats taken by the NDP Thursday in an election that reduced Premier Dwight Ball’s Liberal government to a 20-seat minority, just shy of the 21 needed for a majority. “They were making a lot of noise for a small group, that was for sure,” Brown recalled by phone on Saturday. Despite the tight competition reflected in the results, Brown said it was a respectful, positive campaign between all three candidates in the district.

Source: thestar May 19, 2019 21:11 UTC