Original sentence: Also, subsequent polls have shown the NDP with support in the 17-23% range, further behind the two front-running parties but still well ahead of the Party's 2003 election result.It brought the NDP back to eight seats in the Legislature, which allowed them to regain official party status.On March 30, 2006 NDP candidate Peter Taubins won the by-election in the Toronto–Danforth riding.On May 13, 2004, NDP candidate Andrea Horwath took this former Liberal strong-hold riding away from them.On Thursday, September 14, 2006, NDP candidateCheri DiNovo, defeated Liberal candidate and incumbent Toronto city councillor Sylvia Watson by a 41% to 33% margin.Taubin's win meant that the NDP still had eight seats, and maintained offical party status.The NDP scored a further upset victory over the Liberals in the summer of that year in the riding of Parkdale—High Park.The Ontario NDP appears to be regaining some of its support that it lost during the Rae years.The by-election was called because NDP MPP Marilyn Churley resigned to run in the Janaury 23, 2006 Federal election.Their first by-election win in 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, was in the riding of Hamilton East
Edited sentence: After first winning the riding of Hamilton East away from the Liberals in 2004, and holding the riding of Toronto Danforth against a strong Liberal challenge in early 2006, the NDP scored a further upset victory over the Liberals in the fall of that year in the riding of Parkdale—High Park.Also, subsequent polls have shown the NDP with support in the 17-23% range, further behind the two frontrunning parties but still well ahead of the Party's 2003 election result.On Thursday, September 14, 2006, less than thirteen months before the forthcoming general election, well-known local United Church minister Cheri DiNovo, representing the NDP, defeated Liberal candidate and incumbent Toronto city councillor Sylvia Watson by a 41% to 33% margin.The Ontario NDP has reason to expect significant gains in this forthcoming vote