Liberal Will Amos victorious in Pontiac

Liberal MPWill Amoswill retain his seat in Pontiac.

At 12:15 a.m., with 84.5 per cent of polls reporting, Amos had 46.7 per cent of the vote.Jonathan Carreiro-Benotof the Bloc Qubcois was in second place with 17.6 per cent, andDave Blackburn was closed behind in third with 17.5 per cent for the Conservatives.

"I'm just so honoured. I feel humbled by the votes, the vote of confidence that I've received from the people of the Pontiac," Amos said Monday.

He described a minority government as taking a different path toward in the same direction.

"We're going to have to listen to some new voices and listen very carefully to those voices, and that is a very good thing in Canada," he said. "We can accept different points of view. We are not the polarized politics that we see in other countries.

Large riding

The riding covers 30,586 square kilometres, stretching from Gatineau to an area about 200 kilometres north of Maniwaki, andincludestownssuch as Chelsea, Fort-Coulongeand the Algonquin community of Kitigan Zibi.

The riding has seen a lot of change. Its boundaries have been redrawn several times, and it's been held by the Conservatives, NDP and Liberals.

Nearly a quarter of its residents say English is their mother tongue, while 13 per cent say they have Indigenous heritage.

Amos worked in environmental protection before taking back the seat from the NDP with 54.5 per cent of the vote in 2015.

Amos was also up against:

• Mario Belec of the People's Party.
• Former Air Force pilot Claude Bertrand for the Greens.
• Lawyer and economic development specialist Denise Giroux of the NDP.
• Louis Lang of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.
• Shawn Stewart of the Veterans Coalition Party.

Pontiac in 2015