Sam Oosterhoff
Sam Oosterhoff, 19, has won the Progressive Conservatives nomination to run in the byelection to be held in the riding of former party leader Tim Hudak. Oosterhoff, a student at Brock University, defeated party president and former MP Rick Dykstra, as well as regional councillor Tony Quirk to win.the nomination in Niagara West-Glanbrook. The byelection is November 17. There were an estimated 1,500 people who voted at three locations throughout the riding. Grimsby’s Town Hall had about 1,000 people who streamed through the doors, while estimates range of about 200 people in Pelham and up to 300 at Mount Hope.