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More than 1,000 party members of the NDP from Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount riding voted Sunday evening to nominate James Hughes, the former head of the Old Brewery Mission.

Hughes defeated public figures such as N.D.G city councillor Peter McQueen and former Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery. Other candidates were school board commissioner Julien Feldman, social worker Kiley Philip and clinical scientist Salim Bouguermouh.

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Hughes now faces the much bigger hurdle of campaigning against the incumbent Liberal MP and former astronaut Marc Garneau.

Garneau currently represents Westmount—Ville-Marie, which is considered a Liberal stronghold.

“This is going to be a very competitive race and we’re working now,” Hughes said. “In fact, this nomination race has been a great preamble. We really got the word out.”

Hughes was sparse on details about his campaign strategy, but said the longer election campaign period is an advantage.