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Elizabeth May wins Commons seat

Green party leader defeats cabinet minister Gary Lunn

Green party leader Elizabeth May has won her bid for the seat of Saanich-Gulf Islands, defeating Conservative cabinet minister Gary Lunn. May, who’d lost two previous attempts to win a House of Commons seat, nonetheless saw her party’s share of the national vote decline to less than four per cent.

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