{"id":941999,"date":"2026-10-22T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:24:16","slug":"recount-flips-vachon-riding-to-pq-by-three-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941999\/","title":{"rendered":"Recount flips Vachon riding to PQ by three votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours after Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was sworn in as premier of Quebec, his party wrested the South Shore riding of Vachon from the Liberals after a judicial recount overturned a razor-thin result in the Oct. 5 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PQ candidate Stephan Fogaing, a former Quebec government economic development adviser with an educational background in aerospace, won by just three votes over Liberal Affine Lwalalika. Lwalalika had initially been declared the winner by a margin of 10 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was sworn in as premier of Quebec, his party wrested the South Shore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,230663,197017,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-941999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-liberal-party","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941999","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=941999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}