Incumbent Conservative MP Tako Van Popta has won 91Ô­´´ Township-Fraser Heights.

With 191 of 193 polls reporting Monday night, preliminary results show Van Popta had 32,025 votes or 51.5 per cent with Liberal John Aldag second with 26,292 or 42.3 per cent. NDP candidate Holly Isaac was third with 2,474 or 4.0 per cent.

Van Popta told cheering supporters at his campaign office that the win was a "huge relief." 

"Every day I prayed that the volunteers would have success," Van Popta told supporters. "Indeed, that prayer has been answered. It's a huge relief for me to win, not only for me, but primarily for all the volunteers who have worked for me."

Tako Van Popta has won re-election.

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Much of the reconfigured riding was "new to us," Van Popta remarked.

"It was very sad with the redistribution of the riding to lose Brookswood and Aldergrove, but I'm very happy to have kept Fraser Heights," Van Popta said. 

As B.C. and national results came in at the Van Popta campaign headquarters through the evening, there were groans at Liberal gains and cheers at Conservative wins.

Van Popta said the party was affected by "a lot of events completely outside of our control. Certainly outside of our control here locally, but even at a national level. You know, like what's happening in the United States. Who could have predicted that?"

Or Trudeau resigning and Carney coming in and "adopting a number of conservative policies," Van Popta added.

"A lot of Canadians are giving Carney credit for adopting conservative policies that we were going to be running."

He noted the party seat count was up, the result of a "collapse" in NDP support. 

Interest was high in the riding, which recorded one of the largest advance turnouts in the province during early voting, with 31,154 people casting ballots.

Three other candidates won one per cent or less of the vote each: Green Party's Debora Soutar, People's Party of Canada candidate Sepehr Haghighat, and Libertarian Alex Joehl.

In the last election in 2021 in what was then the 91Ô­´´-Aldergrove riding, the final count gave Van Popta 28,643 votes out of 62,635 ballots cast or 45.7 per cent of the vote, while second-place Liberal Kim Richter had 16,565 votes or 26.4 per cent, and third-place NDP candidate Micahel Chang had 12,288 votes or 19.6 per cent. 

Aldag, who served as Cloverdale-91Ô­´´ City MP from 2015 – 2019 and 2021 – 2024, took over as the Liberal candidate in 91Ô­´´ Township-Fraser Heights just weeks after he went through major heart surgery.

Isaac, a first vice president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, was a first-time candidate.