Business owner wins PC party new seat in Cape Breton byelection

An Elections Nova Scotia ballot box is seen at a polling station in Dartmouth, N.S., Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

By Shelli Summers

Posted Jun 24, 2026 07:30:51 AM.

Last Updated Jun 24, 2026 10:25:31 AM.

The provincial PC party has a new addition following last night’s byelection in Cape Breton.

Claude Bourgeois won the newly created riding of Cheticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay, according to unofficial results from Elections Nova Scotia.

Bourgeois took the inaugural seat with 1,315 votes.

Liberal candidate Denis Cormier received 1,080 votes while NDP candidate Trevor Poirier took in 258 votes.

Nik Boisvert of the Green Party won 44 votes.

The new riding was announced in February, with the province deeming it an “exceptional riding” carved from the existing riding of Inverness.

According to Bourgeois’ website, he is a “business owner with deep roots in Cape Breton’s fishing, transport, and marine industries.”

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