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The NDP and the Progressive Conservatives have called it a victory for NDP candidate Lisa Roberts in the Halifax-Needham byelection.

From the moment early totals were announced, Roberts was in the lead to be the next representative for the north end Halifax region.

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There has been no concession speech from the Liberal candidate Rod Wilson who was in the running all night, as polls are still being tallied.

The area had been an NDP stronghold for years under former cabinet minister and party leader Maureen MacDonald.

MacDonald announced in April she was retiring after serving as a member of the legislature for 18 years.

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She was first elected in 1998 and re-elected in 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2013.

Roberts beat out Liberal candidate Wilson, a physician and executive director of the North End Community Health Centre and PC candidate Andy Arsenault, a former RCMP inspector and a business owner, as well as Thomas Trappenberg, a Dalhousie University computer science professor, the Green party candidate.

With files from Global News.