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- ↑ "Official Voting Results: FORTY-SECOND GENERAL ELECTION". Elections Canada.
- ↑ "Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
- ↑ "December 3, 2018 By-election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved December 24, 2018.