Liberals re-elected in OttawaVanier

Liberal Mona Fortier has been re-elected in the riding of OttawaVanier.

The consistently Liberal riding gave Fortier 51 per cent of the ballots cast. Another 20.3 per cent went toStphanie Mercierwith the NDP and Conservative candidateJoel Bernardhad 17.5 per cent.

Fortier kept theseat for the Liberals in an April 2017 byelection, with more than 51per cent of the vote.

"I'm very happy with this victory," she said.

Fortiersaid a minority government gives parliamentarians an opportunity to work together to bring the Liberal agenda toCanadians.

"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.

Fortieralso 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 candidateOriana Ngabirano, who ran in that RideauRockcliffe byelection and runs Ottawa's Healthy Transportation Coalition.
• Feminist Canadian art historian Michelle Paquette of the Communist Party.

OttawaVanierin the 2017 byelection