CONSERVATIVE Tamara Jansen on Monday won in the Cloverdale–Langley City by-election by a huge margin, with the Liberals’ Madison Fleischer and the NDP’s Vanessa Sharma (NDP) trailing far behind.

Jansen, a former MP, won 9,255 votes (65.4%) as compared to Fleischer’s 2,321 votes (16.4%) and Sharma’s 1,875 votes (12.5%).

Fleischer is a small business owner. Sharma serves as Equity Vice President at the Canadian Labour of Congress representing MoveUp.

The by-election was called after Liberal MP John Aldag resigned to run for the BC NDP in the provincial election.

Jansen was MP from 2019 to 2021. She defeated Liberal incumbent John Aldag by about 1,300 votes in 2019.

But in 2021, she lost to Aldag by over 1,600 votes. Aldag won 20,877 votes (39.2%), Jansen garnered 19,223 votes (36.1%), NDP’s Rajesh Jayaprakash got 10,587 votes (19.9%) and People’s Party of Canada’s Ian Kennedy won 2,563 votes (4.8%).

Jansen won her party’s nomination in a riding contest in October on the first ballot against Paul Brar and Bradley Bakken.

According to her website: “For over 30 years, Tamara and her husband Byron have worked together to build an agricultural business that provides jobs for hundreds of people and creates employment opportunities for thousands more.”