Your 1-stop shop for the federal races in the Ottawa-Gatineau area
Of 13 Liberal and 7 Conservative MPs, the vast majority 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 April 28, months earlier than the legally required date of Oct. 20, 2025.
In 2021, voters chose 13 Liberal and seven Conservative MPs. All but one or 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 late last week, the Liberals revoked Nepean MP Chandra Arya's nomination.
You can find a list of the 2025 candidates so far below, plus a little bit about each riding and how it's changing.
The full list of candidates will be out April 9. Campus advance voting is April 13 to 18, general advance voting is April 18 to 21 and the deadline to apply to vote by mail is April 22. Elections Canada 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