Hot News: Liberals win majority government in New Brunswick election

;

Brian Gallant and the Liberals have been declared the winner in the 2014 New Brunswick election - but due to technical glitches at Elections New Brunswick, it's a win likely to be contested. Get all the results from the 2014 New Brunswick election here

New Brunswick's Liberals and governing Progressive Conservatives were locked in an unusually tight contest but the race was put on hold at about 10:45 p.m. AT after officials with Elections New Brunswick said they became concerned about discrepancies in the tabulation.

A spokesman for Elections New Brunswick said the agency encountered a technical problem with the tabulation machines it was using to count ballots.

Paul Harpelle said in an email that there were problems uploading data from memory cards and they were working 'frantically' to resolve the delay in getting final results tallied.

Green Party leader David Coon made history in defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Craig Leonard.

Coon, running in the riding of Fredericton South, will become the first Green candidate to win a seat in the provincial legislature.

PC leader David Alward and Liberal leader Brian Gallant each won their respective seats, while NDP leader Dominic Cardy lost his bid for election as the results of the New Brunswick election.

NDP leader Dominic Cardy resigned after losing in the riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell to PC candidate Brian Macdonald and resigned as party leader.

He said the party would hold a leadership race in the coming weeks.

Alward was elected in his riding of Carleton and Gallant was elected in his riding of Shediac Bay-Dieppe. With files from Heather Loney and The Canadian Press

© Shaw Media, 2014

Post By http://globalnews.ca/news/1575833/liberals-win-majority-government-in-new-brunswick-election/