October 15, 2008

Incumbent Mississauga South MP Paul Szabo has been re-elected to serve a sixth term in his riding.

By 11:40 p.m., with 195 of 229 polls reporting, the 60-year-old Szabo was beating Conservative candidate Hugh Arrison by more than 1,700 votes.

NDP candidate Matt Turner and Green Party Richard Laushway were lagging far behind. A tearful Szabo and his wife Linda arrived at his campaign office in Clarkson to chants of "Szabo! Szabo! Szabo!"

"If a candidate wasn't totally exhausted at the end of this campaign, then they didn't work hard enough," said Szabo. "Let me assure you, I'm exhausted. "What tonight's result tells me is that the people in this riding has said, 'You're doing a good job, carry on,' " he added.