Ontario Votes 2018: OttawaVanier

OttawaVanier is one of the city's most diverse ridings, both ethnically and economically. It includes one of the richest neighbourhoods, Rockcliffe, as well as Vanier, an area with one of the highest percentages of low-income residents.

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Last year'sriding boundary changes only slightly affectedOttawaVanier,which grew fiveper cent by taking a small portion of the old OttawaOrlansriding.

Who's running?

The Liberal incumbent inOttawaVanieris Nathalie Des Rosiers, who won the riding in a 2016 byelection following the retirement of Madeleine Meilleur. Earlier this year, Des Rosiers, the former dean of the University of Ottawa's law school, becameminister of Natural Resources and Forestry.

The riding has a long history as a Liberal stronghold, with the last PC representation ending in 1971. When Meilleur held the riding she regularly took more than half the votes cast, with PC candidates coming a distant second.

This election, Fadi Nemr, a small business owner and Lebanese immigrant, hopes to buck the trend and takeOttawaVanierfor the Progressive Conservatives. Lyra Evans, a formerly homeless 25-year-old and the province's first openly transgender candidate to represent a major party, is the NDP candidate.

Sheilagh McLean, a federal government retiree and yoga teacher, is running for the Green Party, Keegan Bennett is running for the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party, David McGrueris running for the Freedom Party of Ontario and Ken Lewis is running for the Ontario Libertarian Party.

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