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May 1, 2025 • Volume 39, No. 25
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Liberals sweep east end ridings By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star
Giovanna Mingarelli, top, Mona Fortier, middle, and Marie-France Lalonde, bottom, have all been elected to Parliament. FILE PHOTOS
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On a night when the federal Liberal Party managed to maintain their minority government status in the House of Commons, they swept all three seats in the east end including in Orléans where Liberal incumbent Marie-France Lalonde has captured 65.6 per cent of the vote with 237 of the 253 having reported their results as of Tuesday morning. If Lalonde maintains her level of support, it will be the highest percentage of votes received by the winning candidate since Eugene Bellemare captured 61.95 per cent of the vote in 1993. In terms of sheer numbers, Lalonde has so far received 32,479 votes while her Conservative opponent, Steve Mansour, has received 14,496 votes. It was the lowest number of votes cast for the Conservatives in Orléans since 2000 when Marc-André Blair received just 8,738 votes. As disappointing as the Conservative vote was in Orléans, the NDP suffered an even bigger setback garnering just 1,444 votes. That’s a far
cry from the last General Election when they NDP candidate, Jessica Joanis, received 10,983 votes. Elsewhere in the east end, Liberal incumbent Mona Fortier captured an even larger percentage of the vote in Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester, which now includes Blackburn Hamlet, than Lalonde did in Orléans. Fortier has received 44,101 votes with 256 of 257 polls reporting. That equates to 67.2 per cent of the total votes cast in the riding. The Conservative candidate received 14,195 votes, while the NDP candidate received 4,939 votes. It’s the same picture in Prescott-RussellCumberland which now includes Cardinal Creek Village and the part of Carlsbad Springs north of Hwy 417. Liberal candidate Giovanna Mingarelli has received 54.6 per cent of the votes in the riding with all 264 polls having reported the results. The Conservative candidate, Julie Seguin, received 40.4 per cent of the vote and the NDP candidate, Ryder Finlay, received just 2.4 per cent. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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