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Like mother, like daughter.

It looks like Lindsay Mathyssen, daughter of retiring London-Fanshawe MP Irene Mathyssen, will pick up the torch to run for the New Democrats in her mother’s riding in next year’s federal election.

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The 39-year-old Ottawa political staffer was the only candidate to go after the nomination, which is to be selected by the party’s riding association on Nov. 4.

Irene Mathyssen, 67, a one-term former London NDP MPP and the city’s first and only NDP MP, is retiring after 12 years on Parliament Hill.

The deadline to enter the race was Oct. 21.

This will be the second time Lindsay Mathyssen has put her hat in the election ring in London. In 2015, she lost the NDP nomination in Liberal-held London North Centre.

Had she won it, then won a seat in the general election, she and her mother would have served together in the House of Commons.

This time, she said, she wants to maintain the traditions long established by her mother – and she knows there are big shoes to fill.