One of the more dramatic upsets in Tuesday’s election was the loss of Liberal cabinet minister Krista Lynn Howell’s district to the PCs.

Andrea Barbour, who is known by some from her presence on social media, garnered 2,596 votes over the 2,001 cast for Howell.

Barbour told the Tim Powers Show on VOCM that people in the district were dissatisfied and seeking change.

She says the people of the Northern Peninsula have been feeling forgotten. She cited a lack of services and the region’s slow decline.

“It’s like going back in time,” says Barbour. “The health care needs attention, the roads need attention, cell phone service is horrible up here. Banks are closing, there’s hardly any doctors anymore in the communities…things are fading. If you go to small communities on The Straights, you’re in a small community, it’s normal…there’s 15 houses that are empty. People are leaving and there’s not a lot of children.”