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New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader David Alward steps away from the voting screen after voting, Monday, September 22, 2014 in Woodstock, N.B. New Brunswick voters are going to the polls in a general election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Questions surrounded New Brunswick's election overnight as technical problems caused vote counting to be suspended for almost two hours with the Liberals jumping out to a lead once the tally resumed.

Before the count was stopped, the Liberals and governing Progressive Conservatives were locked in a tight contest.

But that changed once the results were updated with the Liberals leading and elected in 27 ridings compared to the Tories with 21.

Green party Leader David Coon was locked in a tight battle in the riding of Fredericton South and held a slim lead with all but one poll left to be counted.