It was a landslide win for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Cypress Hills-Grasslands riding in yesterday's federal election, and the New Democratic Party trailed in a distant second.

The NDP lost to the Conservatives by over 26,500 votes in the riding, but they're still above the Liberals, the third-ranking party in the region, by 2,000 votes.

Trevor Peterson, the NDP nominee for the riding, said that being able to spread his party's message was a goal they were able to accomplish on the campaign trail.

He said that the results of the election lined up with what they had observed in the past.

Peterson said that coming second in a conservative riding with another right-wing party on the ballot showed how Canadians thought of the Peoples Party of Canada.

"I think a lot of people understand that the PPC doesn't stand with the values that Canadians believe in, I think we've seen that fairly significantly tonight."

Peterson said that before the next election, which could happen in a matter of months due to the minority government formed by the Liberal Party of Canada, he and the local NDP organization would put consideration into who will run.

"We haven't obviously talked about any of that yet, but we'll look at it from a team perspective, we've got a good network and a good team, and whoever runs will be definitely supported with a good local organization."

Peterson said that Justin Trudeau has not followed through on a lot of his previous promises, including the implementation of proportional representation, something that may have shifted yesterday's election results.