Ottawa·CANADA VOTES 2025Mona Fortier is projected to return as MP for the central Ottawa riding that’s gone Liberal since 1935.The area has elected Liberals since 1935CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2025 10:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours agoOttawa-Vanier-Gloucester Liberal MP Mona Fortier photographed during the 2025 campaign. (Olivier Plante/Radio-Canada)Mona Fortier is projected to return as MP for the central Ottawa riding of Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester, which has gone Liberal since 1935.Blackburn Hamlet moved from Orléans to keep population counts from getting too skewed under the regular independent boundary review after the 2021 census.Eight candidates were on the ballot. Conservative Dean Wythe came second, flipping places with the NDP from the 2021 results.Before coming to Parliament Hill in a 2017 byelection, Fortier was a senior director at La Cité college and a volunteer board member for institutions such as the Montfort Hospital.She is a former minister of middle class prosperity and treasury board president.Ottawa-Vanier is now Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester and includes Blackburn Hamlet. (Elections Canada)