Here's what's happening in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas recount

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The 3rd time of recounting the ballots successful the tightest race in this year's national predetermination is underway successful Marystown, N.L.

Liberal campaigner Anthony Germain won by lone 12 votes, triggering judicial recount

Maddie Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 10:04 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

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The ballot recount in the tightest race in this year's national predetermination continues successful Marystown, N.L.

Liberal Anthony Germain initially bushed Conservative Jonathan Rowe by lone 12 votes successful the recently redrawn Terra Nova-The Peninsulas riding.

That razor-thin borderline prompted an automatic judicial recount.

Supreme Court Justice Garrett Handigran told CBC News the teams should beryllium finished counting the much than 41,000 ballots by astir 5:30 p.m. NT Wednesday.

When that's done, he will start reviewing the riding's disputed ballots. Lawyers are expected to marque their arguments implicit those ballots successful the afternoon.

WATCH | How disputed ballots could determine the result of this race:

Candidates and supporters connected borderline arsenic predetermination recount goes down to the wire

It’s different tense time successful Marystown arsenic a judicial recount successful the riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas comes down to the last ballots. Just 12 votes separated Liberal Anthony Germain and Conservative Jonathan Rowe. The CBC’s Heather Gillis explains however disputed ballots could determine the results of this race.

Some of those disputed ballots mightiness see those rejected connected predetermination night. In all, 579 were rejected successful the archetypal count.

They tin beryllium rejected for a fig of reasons, including however an elector indicates their chosen candidate.

For example, a ballot indispensable beryllium rejected by the recount squad if the elector did not marque a people successful the ellipse adjacent to a candidate's name. Further, if determination are immoderate identifying markers oregon a elector marked for a idiosyncratic different than a listed candidate, those are grounds for rejection.

A rejected ballot tin beryllium accepted during the recount process if the recount teams — which see representatives for each campaigner — unanimously hold that the ballot should beryllium reclassified.

In specified a choky race, each ballot successful the 279 ballot boxes counts. Eleven of those boxes include special ballots, and 23 boxes clasp votes cast successful precocious polls.

Although some candidates person expressed confidence, the result of the recount is not acceptable successful stone. The Quebec riding of Terrebonne flipped to Liberal by a azygous vote.

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