LiberalFrancis Drouin holds onto GlengarryPrescottRussell

Voters in GlengarryPrescottRussell have chosento sendLiberalFrancis Drouinback to Parliament.

As of 12:30 a.m. Tuesday with94.1 of votes counted,Drouinwon with47.1 per cent of the vote or28,859 votes over Conservative candidatePierreLemieux,who recieved22,519 votes or36.2 per cent of the vote.

Drouin first won the riding in 2015.

Lemieux, who lost the seats in 2015, was attempting to put it back into the party's fold.

Lemieux won GlengarryPrescottRussell, which runs from rural east Ottawa to the Quebec border and is majority francophone, three times before losing toDrouinby more than 10,000 votes in 2015.

Rounding out the field in this mostly francophone ridingare Jean-Jacques Desgranges of the People's Party; Darcy Donnelly of the Libertarian Party of Canada;Independent Daniel Fey;Marc-Antoine Gagnierof the Rhinocerous Party; and NDP candidateKonstantine Malakos, who worked toward marriage equality in New York state before moving to the riding and raising poultry with his husband.

MartheLpinewas dropped bythe Green Party because of comments she made concerning abortion. Because that happened after the deadline, Lpine's name still appeared on the ballot as a Green candidate, but if elected she would not have represented the party.

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GlengarryPrescottRussell in 2015