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Liberals, Tories locked in tight race as N.B. election results arrive

WATCH: Laura Brown reports on the past month on the New Brunswick election campaign trail, where politicians have beenmaking promises and mistakes, and talking about the key issues facing the province.

FREDERICTON David Alward and Brian Gallant have each won their respective seats, while NDP leader Dominic Cardy lost his bid for election as the results of the New Brunswick election continue to roll in.

Cardy resigned after losing in the riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell to PC candidate Brian Macdonald and resigned as party leader.

ELECTION RESULTS: Live election results on Globalnews.ca

He said the party would hold a leadership race in the coming weeks.

Alward was elected in his riding of Carleton and Gallant was elected in his riding of Shediac Bay-Dieppe.

As 10:10 p.m. more than 306,000 ballots had been counted, with the Liberals leading or elected in 25 ridings and the Progressive Conservatives leading or elected in 23 ridings.

WATCH:Its still neck and neck between the Liberals and Tories. The Liberals are maintaining their slim margin much to the chagrin of one PC supporter who joins Shelley Steeves.

Green Party leader David Coon opened up a lead in the riding of Fredericton South over PC candidate Craig Leonard in his bid to become the first candidate from his party to win a seat in the provincial legislature.

Finance minister Blaine Higgs was elected in the bellwether riding of Quispamsis, while health minister Ted Flemming was elected in Rothesay.

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Democrats vow to confront Gingrich at Reichert fundraiser

State Democrats are vowing to confront ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Dave Reichert on Thursday, when Gingrich appears at a Reichert fundraiser at the Issaquah Hilton Garden Inn.

Rep., Dave Reichert: The 2011 redistricting gave the 8th District Republican a much safer seat in Congress.

They may be biting off more than they can chew if either or both of the guests of honor encounter the demonstrators outside.

Gingrich used to relish arguing with Puget Sound liberals back in the mid-1990s, describing Washington as Ground Zero of the Republican revolution after the state elected six new Republican House members. He waded into a crowd of protestors outside the Space Needle for a brief and animated set-to.

Once a hostage negotiator in days with the King County Sheriffs office, Reichert specialized in disarming with cordiality liberal delegations from the group MoveOn.org during his first two terms in Congress.

American politics have, alas, drawn inward since then. Political handlers stress avoiding hostile encounters. Its especially wise strategy here. Washington Democrats work with one of the countrys most skilled trackers, who in 2012 filmed GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna in an embarrassing moment. (McKenna was set up.)

As well, event arrangers emphasize donor maintenance, giving of your time to those who give to you.

The Reichert event has various levels of givers. It will set back donors $2,500 apiece, or $4,000 a couple, to participate in a roundtable discussion with Gingrich. (Big Democratic donors paid $25,000 for an Obama roundtable in August.) A picture with Gingrich costs $500 or $750 a couple. General admission is $150 or $250 a couple.

Reichert has never been a confrontational conservative. He votes with Republicans in the House, but sometimes leaves the reservation on such conservation issues as funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Newt Gingrich, pictured at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference.

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House Democrats hold out hope to win majority control of chamber in election

Miracles can happen or so say House Democrats longing to win majority control of the chamber in November.

They need a net gain of 17 seats to seize the speakers gavel, which would require winning the lions share of roughly two dozen Republican-held seats targeted by Democrats this year most of them in GOP-leaning districts.

Pundits and pollsters give Democrats virtually no chance of pulling it off, but the party faithful nevertheless hang on to hope.

I am a believer, said Rep. James P. McGovern of Massachusetts, one of the most liberal Democrats in Congress.

I read regularly all the political pundits and the polls showing whos up and whos down on all the news shows. But I think people are not happy with the way this place is being run and, on the issues, I think people agree with us. If we get our message out and get the vote out, we win, he said.

Indeed, Americans overwhelmingly dislike what is happening on Capitol Hill. A Fox News poll last week found that 79 percent of those surveyed disapproved of Congress. Another recent poll showed that for the first time, a majority of voters 51 percent want to oust their own representatives.

House Republicans dismiss any suggestion that their majority is in danger and expect to expand their edge by as many as 10 seats.

Republicans also have high hopes of capturing the Senate as well. The party has an excellent shot of winning the net six seats needed for complete control of Congress.

Much of the difficulty facing House Democrats is that the path to midterm success runs predominantly through Republican-leaning districts. Republicans now have a 233-199 edge in the House, with three seats vacant.

Of the 24 Republican seats identified as in play by the Rothenberg Political Report, just nine are in districts that backed President Obama in the 2012 election. Winning in those districts could put Democrats more than halfway toward their goal.

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