Liberals to select candidate for Essex

The Liberals will finally have their candidate to challenge NDP incumbent Taras Natyshak in Essex. “There is a candidate and she will be announced Wednesday,” Liberal spokeswoman Sophia Koukoulas said Sunday, referring to the nomination meeting to be held at the Windblown and Weathered Studio and Gallery, 10 Division St. N., in Kingsville starting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. This is the last vacant spot among the main parties locally for the June 7 election. Except for this spot, the Liberals, PCs, NDP and Greens all have candidates in Windsor West, Essex, Windsor-Tecumseh and Chatham-Kent-Leamington. Natyshak was first elected in Essex in 2011 and re-elected in 2014, when he garnered 28,092 votes compared to 10,178 for PC candidate Ray Cecile and 6,625 for Liberal Crystal Meloche. This time around, the PC candidate is former Kingsville councillor Chris Lewis and Nancy Pancheshan is running for the Green Party.

In Windsor West, the candidates are incumbent Lisa Gretzky (NDP), Liberal Rino Bortolin, PC candidate Adam Ibrahim and Krysta Glovasky-Ridsdale from the Greens. In Windsor-Tecumseh, incumbent Percy Hatfield from the NDP is being challenged by PC candidate Mohammad Latif, Green candidate Henry Oulevey and Liberal Remy Boulbol. In Chatham-Kent-Leamington, the candidates are PC incumbent Rick Nicholls, Liberal Margaret Schleier Stahl, Green Party candidate Mark Vercouteren and the NDP’s Jordan McGrail.