There were plenty of cheers in Green headquarters in downtown Sackville on Monday night, as newly re-elected MLA Megan Mitton thanked her supporters, and said “bye bye Higgs”, in reference to the defeat of the PC government led by former premier Blaine Higgs.
“I’m so proud to represent all of you and the whole riding, and to fight for the whole province,” said an emotional Mitton, “because we still need to build. We still need change. We still need to fix the crisis in our health care system. We still need to eliminate patronage and corruption from our political system.”
Mitton won just under 2500 votes in Tantramar, 48.9% of the 5068 votes that were cast in the riding, a margin of over 1000 votes from both her closest competitors.
CHMA caught up with Megan Mitton after the formalities on election night, as well as defeated Liberal candidate John Higham.
