Former NDP education minister Peter Bjornson has been elected as the school board trustee for Ward 3 of the Louis Riel School Division, after he won more than half of the vote in the southeast Winnipeg byelection race on Saturday.

Bjornson took 54 per cent of the vote share with 787 votes, according to the city's unofficial byelection results . Susanne Dandenault received 565 votes, or about 39 per cent, and Ben Singer garnered 99 votes, or about seven per cent.

A resident of River Park South, Bjornson said he was "very honoured" that voters in the division — where all three of his children attended school — overwhelmingly cast their ballots in his favour.

"I felt great to be on the doorstep and be a candidate again," he said, calling himself an "old-school politician" that values d

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