Mark Gerretsen wins Kingston and the Islands

CBCNews projects voters in Kingston and the Islands have re-electedMark Gerretsen.

As of 12:06 a.m., with 66 per cent of votes counted,Gerretsencaptured 46.5 per cent of the vote inKingston and the Islands, or19,659 votes.

The runner-up, NDP candidate Barrington Walker, garnered9,900 votesor23.4 per cent of the ballots cast.

The Liberals have held theseat since the late 1980s, and in 2015Gerretsenkept it that way. (The riding lost the area north of Highway 401 to LanarkFrontenacKingston thanks to a recent redrawing of the electoral map.)

This time, Gerretsenwas up against former RCMP officer Andrew Brooke of the People's Party; Green Party candidateCandice Christmas, formerly an economic development worker;Walker, ahistory professor at Queens University; andRuslan Yakoviychukfor the Conservatives, who was born in Ukraine and lived in Portugal before moving to Kingston.

Kingston and the Islands in 2015