In other non-byelection nomination news, a number of new candidates were nominated over the last week, starting this past Wednesday. Owing to the large number of them and shortness of time, I'm doing a pretty cursury treatment for now, but will try and remember to do a more expansive write-up of these ridings next time they surface.

• Wed 30 Sep - NDP - Ottawa West – Nepean, ON - Three-time candidate Marlene Rivier, thanks to a reader for the clipping
  
• Wed 30 Sep - Lib - Edmonton – Leduc, AB - Donna Lynn Smith (h/t Liberal Scarf who got it from Facebook)
  
• Wed 30 Sep - NDP - Vancouver Island North - Former M.P. Catherine Bell acclaimed to run again in 4th contest against Conservative M.P. John Duncan; thanks to a reader for the clipping
  
• Fri 2 Oct - Lib - Dartmouth – Cole Harbour, NS - Liberal M.P. Mike Savage renominated by acclamation I'm assuming
  
• Fri 2 Oct - NDP - Oak Ridges – Markham, ON - Janice Hagan, who previously ran 3 times in Markham – Unionville
  
• Sat 3 Oct - Lib - South Shore – St. Margaret's, NS - Former Liberal M.P. Derek Wells wins contested nomination 158 to 20; will be 3 current or former MPs running in this riding now: Conservative incumbent Gerald Keddy, former NDP M.P. Gordon Earle, plus Wells
  
• Sat 3 Oct - Lib - West Nova, NS - Robert Thibault acclaimed; thanks to a contact for confirming this
  
• Sat 3 Oct - Lib - Miramichi, NB - Keith Vickers; again thank you to a contact for letting us know
  
• Sat 3 Oct - NDP - Shefford, QC - Simon Gnocchini Messier will run again
  
• Sat 3 Oct - Lib - Burlington, ON - Businessman and 2008 candidate in Wellington – Halton Hills Bruce Bowser acclaimed with about 100 in attendance, after former M.P. Paddy Torsney decided to sit it out. Thanks to a reader for keeping us in the loop.
  
• Sat 3 Oct - NDP - Burnaby – Douglas, BC - M.P. Bill Siksay renominated by acclamation, he told Twitter
  
• Sat 3 Oct - NDP - Essex, ON - Two-time candidate Taras Natyshak renominated by acclamation, he told Facebook
  
• Sat 3 Oct - NDP - Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo, BC - Two-time candidate Michael Crawford renominated by acclamation, in the second-biggest story from out of Kamloops this past weekend
  
• Sun 4 Oct - Lib - Toronto – Danforth, ON - 2008 candidate Andrew Lang to run again; thanks to a reader for letting us know
  
• Sun 4 Oct - BQ - Charlesbourg – Haute-Saint-Charles, QC - First-time candidate Félix Grenier acclaimed this afternoon, to take on Conservative M.P. Daniel Petit
  

Also:

• Sackville – Eastern Shore, NS - Lib - I'm still trying to find out who won the Liberal nomination here the other weekend. If you know, please get in touch.
  
• Jeanne-Le Ber, QC - Lib - Nathalie Le Prohon is still going to run for the nomination here, but will perhaps be challenged by Sebastien Dhavernas, who was going to test the waters at the weekend Liberal congress in Québec city, according to La Presse.
  
• Lac-Saint-Louis, QC - Grn - Ryan Young was introduced as Green candidate by Elizabeth May in this West Island of Montréal riding late last week, reported the Gazette.
  
• Ottawa Centre, ON - Cons - Four candidates are seriously considering running for the Conservatives here, reports the Centretown News, but the riding association says they're not in a rush to pick a candidate. The Liberal Scarf has more background.
  
• Leeds – Grenville, ON - Grn - A contested nomination is in the cards, now that 2008 candidate Jeannie Warnock has stepped aside, reported the Whig-Standard. And thanks to a reader for writing in with the details: a former Liberal riding president, property manager Jeff Poole, three-time Green candidate in Ottawa-Vanier and speech and language coach Raphaël Thierrin, and retired teacher and farmer Mary Slade of Athens, will all face off on Thursday, October 15.
  
• Beaches – East York, ON - NDP - With two-time federal candidate Marilyn Churley bowing out, a new NDP nomination candidate has emerged on Facebook: lawyer Barbara Warner who volunteers with the Canadian Environmental Law Association, Legal Education Action Fund, and Ontario Environment Network is running, and says that a meeting date will be set soon in this east Toronto riding.
  
• Davenport, ON - NDP - Musician Andrew Cash is now apparently set to be acclaimed at the nomination meeting scheduled for Monday evening in this west Toronto riding.
  
• Guelph, ON - Cons - An Air Canada pilot and retired member of the air force, Marty Burke, appears to have been acclaimed the Conservative candidate in this riding, according to the Guelph Mercury. I'll be trying to find out when exactly he was nominated, and whether the nomination was contested in order to add this name into the database.
• North Vancouver, BC - Lib - An apparently contested nomination race between two candidates, who are both interested but neither green-lighted as yet, is the focus of this clipping from the North Shore News. Former Liberal M.P. Don Bell may or may not be running against former Green Party candidate James "Green Jim" Stephenson, at a nomination meeting that hasn't been scheduled yet.
  
• South Surrey – White Rock – Cloverdale, BC - CHP - A former local Conservative activist Michael Schouten is getting a Christian Heritage Party riding association organized in this riding, and hopes to be approved as its candidate here, after volunteering for Conservative M.P. Russ Hiebert in the past, reported the Peace Arch News last month. Apparently the CHP has never run a candidate in this riding before, but is now said to have identified up to 7 candidates across B.C., including Kevin Pielak in Surrey North. I'll have to do some more research into this, but if you know who they might be, please get in touch.
  

While the by-elections are on, you can always find the 41st general election Nominations Progress chart on the page for that electoral event, while the Nominations Progress table is always found on the "Search the Database" page in the section titled "Queries for Most Recent Election(s)", under "Nomination Counts".

I'm about to insert a large number of Green Party nominations, as I've had the details confirmed by GPC officials, whom I thank for their efforts. In the next day or so I'll be doing an analysis of nominations by week by party, which I had planned to do this weekend until the by-election calls occurred. Stay tuned.

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Labels: 41st General Election Nominations, Bloc Québécois, Conservatives, Greens, Liberals, NDP