Liberal Mona Fortier has a commanding lead in early results from the riding of Ottawa
—Vanier—Gloucester.
With 23 per cent of polls reporting, she led with 68 per cent of the vote. Her closest opponent, Conservative Dean Wythe had 23 per cent.
The NDP’s Tristan Oliff had six per cent of the vote and Green candidate Christian Proulx had 2 per cent.
When polls closed, volunteers began arriving at Fortier’s election-night party at the Lowertown Brewery in the ByWard Market. As results started to trickle in, volunteers sipped pints of beer and watched on big screens. Some were confident in the Liberal Party’s chances, but others waited nervously.
Wythe held his election night party at Elite BMW Service near the intersection of St. Laurent Boulevard and Montreal Road. Wythe’s campaign asked the Ottawa Citizen to leave its election-night party until results were in.
The seat has been considered a safe Liberal seat, even after the riding boundaries were redrawn to include some suburban neighbourhoods. The riding’s predecessor, Ottawa—Vanier, never elected a Conservative to Parliament since its inception in 1935 when it was called Ottawa East.
Fortier was
first elected in a 2017 byelection after the death of longtime MP Mauril
Bélanger. During the nomination race to run for the Liberals in that byelection, she beat 11 other candidates. When she won her seat, Fortier became the first woman to represent the riding.
Before she was elected, she was the chief director of communications and market development for Collège la Cité. Fortier also managed her own communications consulting firm.
She was re-elected in 2019 and chosen by then prime minister Justin Trudeau to serve as minister of middle-class prosperity. She was also re-elected in 2021 and became Treasury Board president shortly after.
Fortier was then shuffled out of that portfolio a few months after a public sector strike that saw more than 100,000 federal employees walk off the job. In 2024, she became chief government whip, a position she lost when Mark Carney became prime minister in March.
Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester’s riding boundaries have significantly changed since the last election in 2021 due to population shifts over the past decade. The 2025 election was the first under the new name and the first to include the east-end community of
Blackburn Hamlet
.
The neighbourhood was previously part of the riding of Orléans. For some residents and community leaders, like Laura Dubas, the city councillor for Orléans West-Innes, the riding change was at first jarring, prompting her to publicly oppose the new boundaries in 2022. Many residents worried the new riding had vastly different priorities and issues from the suburban hamlet.
But the riding change has stuck, bringing with it a new set of constituents, priorities, and government leaders for Fortier to serve and collaborate with.
“T
hey fit in a great diverse riding, and I know that we’ll be working together very closely,” she said of Blackburn Hamlet in an interview on April 16.
Oliff, the NDP candidate for the riding, campaigned largely on community care and supports, including the need for a universal basic income and other housing supports.
Wythe, the Conservative candidate, brought a resume as a former public servant in defence, intelligence and foreign affairs roles. He campaigned on the importance of housing, cost-of-living issues and safe streets.
Christian Proulx, the Green Party candidate, most recently ran to be MPP for Ottawa-Vanier in the recent Ontario election and was also the Green candidate in the riding for the 2021 federal election. He campaigned on the importance of climate action and green investments to make life more affordable.
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