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Ottawa Citizen
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Ottawa Citizen
‘Nobody's crestfallen': Greens fail to win an Ottawa seat, but stay optimistic
Article content Unlike other parties on the federal ballot, the Green Party candidates in Ottawa weren't expecting any major wins in this election. Rather, local candidates see it as the beginning of a long, uphill battle. Article content Article content 'We just have to bide our time and build our capacity,' said Ottawa South candidate Nira Dookeran. 'Nobody's crestfallen. Nobody was expecting to have any wins.' Article content Article content But that didn't dull their spirits. After finding out party co-leader Elizabeth May held onto her seat in British Columbia to put the Greens on the board, five Ottawa Green candidates and their supporters at the Riverside Pub erupted into enthusiastic applause. Article content Article content May's seat would turn out to be the Greens' only victory, after incumbent Mike Morrice lost the Kitchener-Centre riding to the Conservatives by fewer than 500 votes. Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault also failed to win his seat in Outremont. Article content The Green candidates placed fourth in each of Ottawa's eight ridings, earning at best two per cent of the vote share. Article content But after winning only one seat, the Green Party is losing the momentum it gained in 2011 when May became the first elected Green MP after unseating the Conservative candidate in the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding. The Greens earned 1.2 of the popular vote with nearly 97 per cent of the votes counted, compared to 2.3 per cent in 2019. Article content Article content In 2019, the party expanded to three seats and received more than one million votes for the first time. But in 2021, the party fell to two seats and received 2.3 per cent of the popular vote — approximately one-third of what it won in 2019. Article content With affordability issues and threats to Canadian sovereignty being the main ballot questions in this election, local Green candidates believe their climate-focused platform was sidelined in favour of bigger national priorities. Article content 'When people think Green, they think of the environment, and if you ask people what their priorities are right now, they will say the economy or trade or immigration is on their mind, but not the environment,' said Ottawa West-Nepean Green candidate Prashanta Dhakal.
CBC
29-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ottawa West-Nepean re-elects Liberal Anita Vandenbeld
Ottawa West-Nepean voters are projected to re-elect Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld. The riding has swung back and forth between Liberals and Conservatives in recent years. Vandenbeld has been its Liberal MP since 2015, getting about 45 per cent of the vote in 2019 and 2021. Vandenbeld previously worked internationally on democracy and getting women involved in politics. She also worked for the party. There were trade-offs with three neighbouring ridings around the edges of this suburban Ottawa riding under the latest redistribution. Six candidates ran this time.
CBC
28-02-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ottawa elects 3 new faces including an extra Liberal MPP
Ottawans elected three new faces to the provincial legislature on Thursday, one of whom helped the Liberal Party of Ontario grab an extra seat at Queen's Park. When the election was called, the Liberals held only nine seats across the entire province, and four of those were held by Ottawa Liberal MPPs. The party retained that quartet of seats on Thursday but also secured a fifth one in the formerly Conservative riding of Nepean thanks to Tyler Watt, a health-care worker. Watt succeeds Lisa MacLeod of the Progressive Conservatives, who announced in September she wouldn't be running again in her longtime riding. "I was nervous going into tonight, so I'm just trying to take in how exciting this is," Watt told CBC after he was projected to win. "It's just [a] really incredible experience that I will remember for the rest of my life." Familiar figures The other two Ottawa newcomers to the Ontario Legislature are both experienced municipal politicians. George Darouze, the city councillor for Ottawa's Osgoode ward, reclaimed the provincial Carleton seat for the Progressive Conservatives. Goldie Ghamari had won the riding for the PCs in 2022 but turned Independent last year and didn't run again. A number of Darouze's cohorts on council joined him at a golf and country club to track the results. "I'm feeling very humble. I'm very happy," Darouze said, crediting his team for slogging through a winter campaign. "We [had] people flipping, slipping and falling. It's amazing." George Darouze will be the new MPP for Carleton 4 hours ago Duration 1:30 Catherine McKenney, the former city councillor for Ottawa's Somerset ward, won the provincial seat of Ottawa Centre for the Ontario New Democratic Party. McKenney takes on the mantle from the NDP's Joel Harden, who will run in the upcoming federal election. McKenney said they felt a lot of relief once they were declared the winner. "You know, you work hard. You go to the doors, day in and day out, you talk to people. It always felt good ... but you want the results in and now we have them," McKenney said. WATCH | McKenney keeps it in the NDP family: Catherine McKenney wins Ottawa Centre 5 hours ago Duration 2:38 McCrimmon, Pasma returned to office In Kanata-Carleton, the Liberals' Karen McCrimmon secured her second term. She was first elected to the riding in a 2023 byelection, but only by a small margin, which made her riding one to watch last night. "I'm grateful to the people ... who have placed their trust [in me] once again," McCrimmon said. "And I'm grateful for my family. They're the ones who make the sacrifices to allow me to do this. Just a whole lot of gratitude going on here." During the last general election in 2022, Ottawa West-Nepean incumbent Chandra Pasma of the NDP also took her seat by a relatively small lead, raising the question of whether the party would hold it this time around. It did, with Pasma besting her opponents. "We knocked on as many doors as we could," Pasma said. "But of course there's extra challenges when you're doing this in February, from the freezing temperatures to the ice and snow.... We dealt with some slips and falls but we were really happy to have those conversations." After Thursday night's results, the Liberals emerged with five out of the nine ridings where Ottawa residents cast a ballot, with the PCs and the NDP each garnering two seats. Stephen Blais helped shore up the Liberals' local fortunes by retaining the Orléans seat, though the results for that race did not get released until after 11 p.m. With Watt's win in Nepean, the Liberals were the only party to pick up an additional seat.
