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JEFF HELSDON Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Ernie Hardeman successfully kept Oxford blue in the 2025 provincial election, capturing 55 per cent of the vote. It was only six minutes after the polls closed until the media were declaring that Premier Doug Ford and the PCs had won a third mandate. Two minutes later, media called it a majority and Hardeman’s campaign manager Shelley Ratelband announced his victory locally to a cheering crowd at a post-election party in the Woodstock Legion. Final results for Oxford were: Hardeman 27,061 votes (55.26 per cent); Liberal Bernia Martin, 11,348 votes (23.17 per cent); NDP Khadijah Haliru, 5,374 votes (10.97 per cent); Green Party of On-
tario Colton Kaufman, 2,182 votes (4.46 per cent); Ontario Party Grace Harper, 1,414 votes (2.89 per cent); New Blue Party Peter Beimers, 1,317 votes (2.69 per cent); Libertarian Henryk Szymczyszyn, 276 votes (0.56 per cent). Voter turnout was 49.20 per cent, an improvement over the 46.45 per cent in 2022. Arriving at the party, Hardeman entered to cheers and thanked Ratelband and his campaign team, his family, and supporters. “It is as great an honour today as it was in 1996,” the nine-term MPP said humbly. “The worry about winning didn’t decrease in all those races. The first one was the easiest as I had nothing to prove. After that, it became a report card on my past service.” CONTINUED TO PAGE 2
Oxford County Council keeps garbage bag tag cost at two bucks LEE GRIFFI Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Members of Oxford County Council discussed a potential one dollar increase on the cost of putting a bag of garbage out on the curb for nearly an hour at last week’s regular meeting. The motion was defeated, as was another motion to have staff take a closer look at the current garbage collection system. Both motions went down after identical five to five recorded votes, something which visibly frustrated Warden Marcus
Ryan during last week’s regular council meeting. “One of, if not the main role, of a head of council is to deliver effective and efficient council meetings and I think sometimes we all, elected officials and residents, get caught up in the politics of what we do and the popularity of the decisions we make but, in the end, we are there to govern.” Ryan added governing means passing policy and budgets and then hand those decisions over to staff to deliver services. CONTINUED TO PAGE 7
ANOTHER WIN FOR HARDEMAN
(JEFF HELSDON PHOTO)
Ernie Hardeman, PC candidate for Oxford, is congratulated by his wife Rita after winning a ninth term as the MPP for the riding. He captured 55 per cent of the vote.
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