[wardlow]

It's very much a case of taking one for the team, but for the younger candidates of a major party running in a hopeless riding, it's with hope that they'll be rewarded down the road... the nomination in a better riding next time around, a minister's assistant position in the meantime. The elderly fellow who runs as the Liberal candidate in the Winkler-Morden area or the dutiful old Tory in West Kildonan might actually believe in the cause (and hope for a miracle breakthrough), but you see a lot of aspirational partisan hacks running just so the party will recognize their effort later.

This might not have been an example of this, because Fort Rouge was wide open and the PCs put relatively serious resources toward it in 2016, but Audrey Gordon ran in Fort Rouge (which hadn't elected the PCs since 1969) there. Three years later, she had the nomination in a more likely Southdale riding, and won.