Despite the NDP's Joe Comartin retiring from his long-held Windsor-Tecumseh riding, new candidate Cheryl Hardcastle doesn't feel leader Tom Mulcair's visit to the region was about shoring up support.
"I think it's more a matter of acknowledging that momentum. People are ready for change, I'm hearing that at the doors," says Hardcastle. "I don't know if it's about shoring it up, I just know that we all have do to that hard work and everbody respects that this is about change in Ottawa."
The NDP's Essex candidate Tracey Ramsey feels the visit helps her election efforts.
"It's incredibly exciting and people have a great sense of hope about what's happening in Essex, so it's a definite boost for our campaign," says Ramsey. "I think that all candidates benefit when the leader comes to town."
Ramsey is up against incumbent Jeff Watson with the Conservatives and Liberal candidate Audrey Festeryga.