{"id":91628,"date":"2017-09-18T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/byelections-for-tory-held-federal-seats-in-quebec-alberta-set-for-october.html"},"modified":"2017-09-18T05:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:27:49","slug":"byelections-for-tory-held-federal-seats-in-quebec-alberta-set-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/byelections-for-tory-held-federal-seats-in-quebec-alberta-set-for-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Byelections for Tory-held federal seats in Quebec, Alberta set for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Canada has announced the dates for two federal byelections to be held in Quebec and Alberta ridings vacated by Conservative MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The votes in Sturgeon River-Parkland, Alta., and Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., will be held on Monday, Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose had previously held the seat in Sturgeon River-Parkland, just west of Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose resigned from politics in July after serving as party leader since 2015.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>&#8216;It&#8217;s been an amazing experience&#8217;: Rona Ambrose set to leave federal politics<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Rona Ambrose was the best leader the Conservatives never had: Robyn Urback<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Quebec seat was previously held by Denis Lebel, who announced his retirement in June after nearly 10 years in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Deputy Conservative leader Denis Lebel leaving federal politics<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The byelections could be an early test for new Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, particularly in Lac-Saint-Jean, where Lebel won in 2015 with only 33 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Denis Lebel&#8217;s departure to put Andrew Scheer&#8217;s Conservative leadership to tough electoral test<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Voters in the two electoral districts can cast their ballots in person or by mail.<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/rona-ambrose-denis-lebel-federal-conversative-1.4294349?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Canada has announced the dates for two federal byelections to be held in Quebec and Alberta ridings vacated by Conservative MPs. The votes in Sturgeon River-Parkland, Alta., and Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., will be held on Monday, Oct. 23. Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose had previously held the seat in Sturgeon River-Parkland, just west of Edmonton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}