Monsef beat Skinner by 3,043 votes

Peterborough-Kawartha Liberal MP Maryam Monsef’s margin of victory in Monday’s election has increased slightly from what was originally thought.

In preliminary results that came out in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Monsef had defeated Conservative challenger Michael Skinner by 2,883 votes.

But in validated final results released Thursday by Elections Canada, the margin of victory increased to 3,043 votes.

Elections Canada has also revealed how many rejected ballots were cast in the area ridings.

In Peterborough-Kawartha, more ballots — 448 — were spoiled than were cast combined for two of the candidates; independent Robert Bowers and Stop Climate Change party leader Ken Ranney.

Northumberland-Peterborough South had 484 rejected ballots, Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock had 413 rejected ballots and Hastings-Lennox and Addington had 352 rejected ballots.

Here are the validated final results for the four Peterborough area ridings:

Peterborough-Kawartha

> Liberal Maryam Monsef, 27,400, 39.3 per cent

> Conservative Michael Skinner, 24,357, 34.9 per cent

> New Democrat Candace Shaw, 11,872, 17 per cent

> Green Andrew MacGregor, 4,930, 7.1 per cent

> People’s Party Alexander Murphy, 890, 1.3 per cent

> Independent Robert Bowers, 180, 0.3 per cent

>Stop Climate Change Ken Ranney, 172, 0.2 per cent

Northumberland-Peterborough South

> Conservative Philip Lawrence, 27,385, 39.7 per cent

> Liberal Kim Rudd, 24,977, 36.2 per cent

> New Democrat Mallory MacDonald, 9,615, 13.9 per cent

> Green Jeff Wheeldon, 5,524, 8 per cent

> People’s Party Frank Vaughan, 1,460, 2.1 per cent

Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock

> Conservative Jamie Schmale, 32,257, 49.1 per cent

> Liberal Judi Forbes, 17,067, 26 per cent

>New Democrat Barbara Doyle, 9,676, 14.7 per cent Green

> Elizabeth Fraser, 5,515, 8.4 per cent

>People’s Party Gene Balfour, 1,245, 1.9 per cent

Hastings-Lennox and Addington

Conservative Derek Sloan, 21,225, 41.4 per cent

> Liberal Mike Bossio, 18,991, 37 per cent

> New Democrat David Tough, 6,840, 13.3 per cent

>Green Sari Watson, 2,991, 5.8 per cent

>People’s Party Adam L. E. Gray, 1,274, 2.5 per cent

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Here’s a look at the combined vote by political party for the four Peterborough area ridings:

Party Votes % vs. Ontario vs. national vs. 2015

CON 105,967 41.1 +7.9 +6.7 +0.9 LIB 89,165 34.6 -6.9 +1.5 -5.5 NDP 38,147 14.8 -2.0 -1.1 -1.8 GRN 19,083 7.4 +1.2 +0.9 +4.3 PPC 4,902 1.9 +0.3 +0.3 +1.9