Liberal showings in Milton continue to surprise me. I know the town has grown a lot recently and isn't what it used to be, a lot of Mississauga exodus happening there. There's a booming South Asian community there, which has been good for the LPC and bad for the CPC federally; though of course, longtime residents of Milton are more like exurban Tories than suburban Grits. So you'd think at the very least, Milton would be a safer hold for the PCs than the Mississauga ridings - to the contrary, the Liberals did better there than anywhere in Mississauga!
If you had told me yesterday that the Tories would get the same share of the vote in Milton as in Brampton East, I would have assumed you were smoking something very strong.
It is also possible that whites in Milton are shifting left. Theoretically it is possible that old time white residents are moving towards the LPC and there is a influx of LPC leaning South Asians at the same time.
