{"id":299161,"date":"2025-11-22T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299161\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:29:20","slug":"update-paul-dinn-maintains-victory-in-topsail-paradise-following-judicial-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299161\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Paul Dinn Maintains Victory in Topsail-Paradise Following Judicial Recount"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\"UPDATE:<\/p>\n

Paul Dinn (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The results of the judicial recount for Topsail-Paradise are in, and PC incumbent Paul Dinn has been declared the winner.<\/p>\n

The recount increased the gap between Dinn and Liberal Dan Bobbett.<\/p>\n

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The official results via Elections NL<\/p>\n

The count on election night had 102 votes separating the two candidates, now that has increased to 106 in favour of Dinn.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word as of yet as to when Dinn will be sworn-in as MHA.<\/p>\n

Earlier story<\/p>\n

VOCM News has learned that all ballots have now been re-counted for the district of Topsail-Paradise.<\/p>\n

The official results remain under wraps for the time being, however, pending review by all parties, and certification by Supreme Court Justice Fonse Faour.<\/p>\n

The returning officer must then complete a Declaration of Election for the winner, followed by the results in a news release from Elections NL.<\/p>\n

Officials were unable to say if that would all happen today or not.<\/p>\n

PC incumbent Paul Dinn defeated Liberal Dan Bobbett by 102 votes in the district.<\/p>\n

VOCM News will have the re-counted results as soon as they are released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Dinn (VOCM News) The results of the judicial recount for Topsail-Paradise are in, and PC incumbent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-299161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}