Justin Trudeau wins Papineau riding in a landslide

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has cruised to an easy victory in his home riding of Papineau in Montreal.

With just 20of 215 polls reporting, the CBC has declared Trudeau the winner in the riding.

He is leading with two-thirds of the vote, well ahead of NDP candidate Anne LagacDowson, who has less than 17 per cent of the votes at this stage in the counting.

Thiscentral Montreal riding, bordered by the affluent ridings of MountRoyal to the west and Outremontto the south,is one of the poorest, most multiethnic and most densely populated ridings in the country.

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Papineau has seen many boundary changes over the years but has nearly always been a safe seat for the Liberals, the traditional haven of new immigrants.

It's been Trudeau's home riding since 2008.Trudeau took the riding from the Bloc Qubcois, winning by just 1,200 votes in 2008, then more than triplingthat margin in 2011.

LagacDowsonwent into this race betting the New Democratic Party's early lead in the polls could be enough to knock Trudeau out of his seat.

But the Orange Wave of 2011 has been overtaken by a Red Tide in 2015, and it's now clear that Trudeau'shold on Papineau is more than secured.

The Bloc's Maxime Claveauwashopingto come up the middle in a split vote, however, at this stage he is polling a mere 8.6 per cent of the vote.

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Candidates 2015

Maxime Claveau, Bloc Qubcois
YvonVadnais,Conservative Party of Canada
DannyPolifroni,Green Party of Canada
Chris Lloyd, Independent
KimWaldron,Independent
JustinTrudeau,Liberal Party of Canada
Peter Macrisopoulos, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
AnneLagacDowson,New Democratic Party
BeverlyBernardo,No Affiliation
Tommy Gaudet,Rhinoceros Party

Riding History

• The riding was created in 1996, combining portions of theSt-Denis andPapineauSt-Michelridings.
• The ridingand its former incarnationshave been mostly Liberal for nearly a century.
• The Bloc won the riding in 2006, but it has gone to the Liberals since 2008, when the party first ran JustinTrudeau as a star candidate.

Riding snapshot

Population: 108,975 (2013 Census)

Mother tongue: French (47 per cent), English (5.7per cent), Non-official languages (47.3 per cent; largest linguistic groups areArabic, Greek, Italianand Spanish)

Average household income: $57,715 (2010 National Household Survey)

Results last election

Liberal 16,429
NDP 12,102
Bloc Qubcois 11,081
Conservative 2,021
Green 806
MarxistLeninist 228
Communist League 95