Local students also pick John Nater for MP of Perth-Wellington

Recently elected Perth-Wellington MP John Nater is also tops in a student vote.

That’s according to Student Vote Canada, which declared Nater the winner with 50.5 per cent of the vote.

Nater officially won Perth-Wellington on Monday night with 53 per cent of the vote in the riding. 

Liberal Dave Mackey had 27.7 per cent to finish in second place in the student vote, well back of his official 40.8 per cent result on Monday.

Kevin Kruchkywich of the NDP was third in the student vote with 14.1 per cent of the vote, well above Monday’s official result, of 4.5 per cent.

Nater topped the vote at Stratford District and St. Michael secondary schools, while Mackey was the winner and Kruchkywich runner-up at Stratford Intermediate School.

Nationally, the overall student vote in Canada was much different than the actual result.

The Conservatives would have a minority government, with 162 seats – including leader Pierre Poilievre winning his riding in the student vote.

The Liberals would be the official opposition with 149 seats.

The Bloc Quebecois won 17 ridings, the NDP garnered 13 and the Green Party picked up two seats.

More than 925,000 elementary, intermediate and high school students at more than 6,000 schools in all 343 ridings across the country cast ballots.