Conservatives triumph as students in Chatham-Kent, across Canada vote in mock election

Canadians returned the Liberal party to power in Monday’s federal election, but 900,000 young people, including more than 3,000 from Chatham-Kent, favoured the Conservatives in a mock election. The Conservatives won 165 seats, with 36.4 per cent vote of the popular vote, enough to form a minority government, in the mock vote, Student Vote Canada said in a release Monday night. In all, 870,340 valid votes were cast by elementary, intermediate and high schoolers in all 343 electoral distric