CBC's has declared Conservative James Bezan re-elected in the Manitoba riding of Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman.

With all 273 polls counted, Bezan had 51.9 per cent of the vote. Liberal Joanne Levy was second with 31 per cent.

"It's mixed feelings — definitely bittersweet," Bezan said. "It's always nice to win here. I was not expecting to see our party [do] as poorly nationally."

The Liberal majority was a huge surprise, he said.

"I knew we were going to be in for a tough night and was expecting a Liberal minority government, not a majority like we've witnessed today," he said. "At the end of it, it comes down to the NDP support completely collapsing and that vote going to the Liberals."

​In the 2011 election, Bezan was elected with 65 per cent of the vote; Sean Palsson of the NDP came in second with nearly 27 per cent of the vote. In that election, 62 per cent of voters in what was then the Selkirk-Interlake riding turned out to vote.

The riding's boundaries have since been adjusted to include Eastman, and it lost territory to Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, Provencher and Portage-Lisgar.

While serving in Parliament, Bezan was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defence. The following year he was sanctioned by Russia after he criticised that country's invasion of Crimea, part of Ukraine. Bezan was first elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative member of Parliament in 2004. He and his family live on a cattle farm near Teulon, Man.

Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman includes much of Winnipeg's northernmost suburbs, including St. Andrews and Stonewall, as well as the city of Selkirk. About 17 per cent of residents are aboriginal. Slightly more than five per cent of residents are immigrants.

There are five candidates running in the riding: