Progressive Conservatives lost one seat in Ottawa on the party’s otherwise successful election night in Ontario.
NDP candidate Chandra Pasma ousted current PC Party president Jeremy Roberts in Ottawa’s West Nepian ride, becoming the first member of the New Democratic Party to take the seat in western Ottawa.
Progressive Conservatives and Liberals won three races in Ottawa in the 43rd general election, while the NDP won two seats.
The starters won in the Carlton, Kanata-Carlton, Nepian, Orleans, Ottawa Center, Ottawa South and Ottawa-Vanie rides.
In Ontario, Prime Minister Doug Ford and the PC Party will form a second consecutive majority government.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca reviews the results of the ride in Ottawa.
Carlton
Goldie Gamari returns to Queen’s Park for a second term as MPP in Carlton.
The Progressive Conservative candidate received 48 percent of the vote, defeating Liberal candidate Tom Dawson (27 percent) and NDP candidate Kevin St. Dennis (15.7 percent).
Gamari was first elected MPP in the Carlton Ride in the 2018 election.
Kanata-Carlton
Progressive Conservative Merily Fullerton was re-elected for a second term as MPP in the Kanata-Carlton Ride.
Fullerton, who was Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, received 43.2 per cent of the vote, defeating NDP candidate Melissa Cohenrad (24.1 per cent) and Liberal Shahbaz Sayed (17 per cent).
Fullerton was selected for the first time in the newly created Kanata-Carlton ride in 2018.
Nepean
Progressive Conservative Lisa McLeod won a sixth term at Queen’s Park.
McLeod received 45 percent of the vote to win the Nepian ride. McLeod defeated Liberal Tyler Watt (33.2%) and NDP Brian Double (20%).
McLeod was not speaking to the media when he arrived at his campaign headquarters to celebrate his election victory. The media was not allowed into the building for her speech to supporters.
McLeod was Minister for Heritage, Sports, Tourism and the Cultural Industry.
Orleans
The Liberals continue to rule Orleans.
Stephen Blace won the race with 46.4 percent of the vote, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Melissa Felian (32.7 percent) and Gabe Bourdain of the NDP (13.6 percent).
Blaise represents the ride of Orleans after winning the by-elections in February 2022.
Ottawa center
Joel Harden of the New Democratic Party will represent the Ottawa Center Ride for a second term.
Harden won the ride with 54.6 percent of the vote, defeating Liberal Katie Gibbs (22.5 percent) and Progressive Conservative Scott Healy (15.7 percent).
Harden was first elected to the Center in Ottawa in 2018.
Shortly before NDP leader Andrea Horvat announced he would step down as party leader, Harden said it was time for a new leadership.
“I want to congratulate Andrea for leading us four times in four election campaigns. I was asked in French if I think we need a change in leadership, right!” Harden said.
“Now is a time when I personally believe it’s time to go beyond guerrilla snipers, it’s time to put our communities first.”
Ottawa South
Liberal John Fraser will represent Ottawa South in Queen’s Park for another term.
Fraser won the Ottawa South race with 45.2 percent of the vote, defeating NDP candidate Morgan Gay (23.8 percent) and PC party candidate Edward Dink (23.1 percent).
Fraser represents riding after winning the 2013 by-elections.
The Liberals have been riding Ottawa South since 1987.
Ottawa-Vanie
Ottawa-Vanie remains painted red by the Liberals for another four-year term.
Liberal Lucille Collard won the Ottawa-Vanier race with 41 percent of the vote, defeating NDP Lyra Evans (25.5 percent) and PC candidate Patrick Mayanji (20.2 percent).
Collard represents the Ottawa Vanie ride after winning the by-elections in February 2020. The Liberals represent the 1971 ride.
Western Ottawa – Nepian
The New Democratic Party took the place of Ottawa West-Nepian from the ruling Progressive Conservative Party.
NDP candidate Chandra Pasma defeated current PC President Jeremy Roberts by just over 900 votes.
Pasma received 37 percent of the vote. Roberts received 34.9 percent of the vote, while Liberal candidate Sam Bhalesar received 22.7 percent of the vote.
Roberts defeated Pasma by 175 votes in the 2018 election.
This is the first time the NDP has won the Ottawa West-Nepean Ride, previously held by the PC Party and the Liberals since its inception in 1999.
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