Liberals re-elected in Ottawa–Vanier
CBC News | Posted: October 22, 2019 2:37 AM | Last Updated: October 22, 2019
Riding in east-central Ottawa a Liberal stronghold since its creation in 1933
Liberal Mona Fortier has been re-elected in the riding of Ottawa–Vanier.
The consistently Liberal riding gave Fortier 51 per cent of the ballots cast. Another 20.3 per cent went to Stéphanie Mercier with the NDP and Conservative candidate Joel Bernard had 17.5 per cent.
Fortier kept the seat for the Liberals in an April 2017 byelection, with more than 51 per cent of the vote.
"I'm very happy with this victory," she said.
Fortier said a minority government gives parliamentarians an opportunity to work together to bring the Liberal agenda to Canadians.
"I think that first, we have to try," she said. "I don't think anybody wants to go back [and have] an election right away."
The riding has elected a Liberal in every federal election since it was created in 1933. It's nearly 30 per cent francophone, and about a quarter of its residents are people of colour.
Fortier also faced:
- Independent Joel Altman.
- Former public servant and veteran Paul Durst for the People's Party.
- Christian Legeais of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.
- Independent Daniel McHugh.
- Overdose Prevention Ottawa co-founder Derek Miller of the Rhinocerous Party.
- Green Party candidate Oriana Ngabirano, who ran in that Rideau–Rockcliffe byelection and runs Ottawa's Healthy Transportation Coalition.
- Feminist Canadian art historian Michelle Paquette of the Communist Party.