MONTREAL — A Superior Court judge has rejected a Bloc Québécois candidate’s request for a new election in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne, won by the federal Liberals in April with a margin of a single vote.

Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, who came in second, had challenged the result after a Bloc voter revealed that her special ballot was returned to her because of an error in the address on the envelope provided by Elections Canada. Sinclair-Desgagné had argued that the error was an irregularity that influenced the outcome of the close result.

But in a ruling delivered Monday, Justice Éric Dufour says the postal code error does not constitute an irregularity as defined under federal electoral law. “It is a simple human error, which sometimes occurs in general elections, committed in

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