Progressive Conservative Merrilee Fullerton wins KanataCarleton

Progressive Conservative Merrilee Fullerton, a former family physician and health advocate, has been elected in the riding of KanataCarleton.

With all polls in, Fullerton has 43.6 per cent of the vote.NDPcandidate John Hansen, an engineer involved in thetech sector is in second with 28.6 and Liberal Stephanie Maghnamis in third with 17.2 per cent of the vote.

Fullerton had a 7,928 vote lead over Hansen.

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KanataCarleton was expected to be an interesting race, withincumbent Jack MacLaren facingoff against his former party in the newly redrawn, suburban andrural riding.

The riding has shrunk significantly since thelast election, withthe oldCarletonMississippi Mills riding losing 20 per cent of its territory to Carleton in the south and 35 per cent to LanarkFrontenacKingston inthe west.

MacLarenranunder the Trillium Party bannerafter beingexpelled from the PC caucusfor comments he made aboutFrench-language rights.

Hehas held the seat since 2011, when he won abitter nomination battleagainst then PC incumbent Norm Sterling a veteran ConservativeMPPwho served in Mike Harris's cabinet. A fifth-generation farmer,MacLarenhas seen continued strong rural support, even whilebattling scandal.

Also running in the riding were:

• Andrew Westfor the Green Party of Ontario.
• Peter d'Entremontfor the Libertarian Party.
• Robert LeBrun,running for the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party.