Your 1-stop shop for the federal races in the Ottawa-Gatineau area
Of 13 Liberal and 7 Conservative MPs, all but 2 are running again
Twenty local seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs as the country launches into a spring election.
This is the first election after an independent review changed the boundaries or names of every riding in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. This means some Ontario voters will be in a different district than they were for February's provincial election.
Check with Elections Canada to confirm your riding.
Election day is Monday, April 28, months earlier than the legally required date of Oct. 20, 2025.
In 2021, local voters chose 13 Liberal and seven Conservative MPs. All but two are running for re-election.
Liberal Francis Drouin is not running again, leaving the renamed and redrawn Prescott-Russell-Cumberland riding without an incumbent.
As election chatter crescendoed, the Liberals revoked Nepean MP Chandra Arya's nomination. He is not running again.
You can find a list of the 2025 candidates so far below, plus a little bit about each riding and how it's changing.
How the vote works
The deadline to both apply to vote by mail and to vote at Elections Canada offices is 6 p.m. on April 22.
Polls are open from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on election day and people still in line when polls close will be able to vote.
Elections Canada says polls are usually busiest when they first open and after 4 p.m.
It has more information on voting options.
Ottawa
- Carleton
- Kanata
- Nepean
- Orléans
- Ottawa Centre
- Ottawa South
- Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester
- Ottawa West-Nepean
- Prescott-Russell-Cumberland
Eastern Ontario outside Ottawa
- Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke
- Bay of Quinte
- Hastings-Lennox and Addington-Tyendinaga
- Kingston and the Islands
- Lanark-Frontenac
- Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands-Rideau Lakes
- Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry