PCs’ Tangri finally wins, Malton fight a close one

After AA three failed attempts to topple her Liberal foe, Progressive Conservative candidate Nina Tangri finally unseated incumbent ccr epresented Bob Delaney, Mississaugawho has Streetsville for the past 15 years.

The win represents a dramatic reversal for the riding, where Tangri was easily defeated by Delaney in the last election, losing by more than 10,000 votes.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Mississauga- Malton, no winner had been called as of 9: 30 p. m., where PC challenger Deepak Anand held a narrow lead over Liberal Amrit Mangat and NDP candidate Nikki Clarke, with 8 out of 32 polls counted.

Both Mississauga ridings are long- time Liberal strongholds and home to increasingly- diverse vv communities, where jobs, growth, gg health care and cost of living were major issues on the campaign trail.

But the sprawling riding of Mississauga- Malton, which contains Pearson International Airport AA and the surrounding in- d dustrial belt, is new to the elec- toral map. It was created in the 2015 riding redistribution process, absorbing a large chunk of the old Bramalea- Gore- Malton riding and replacing Mississauga-Brampton South, where Mangat has been MPP since 2007.

Malton is home to many of Canada’s newest residents as well ww as some of Peel region’s poorest households.

At an all- candidates meeting in early May, residents spoke of community neglect, with one woman complaining about Malton’s reputation as the “armpit or ghetto of Mississauga,” according to the Mississauga News.

By contrast, neighbouring Mississauga- Streetsville, which touches Brampton to the north and aa Milton to the west, con- tains some of Mississauga’s more affluent communities, including historic Streetsville, the stomping grounds of former mayor “Hurricane” Hazel McCallion.