Yasir Naqvi re-elected in Ottawa Centre

The 2018 provincial rematch in downtown Ottawa is projected to go to Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi.

Besides a Conservative byelection win in the 1970s, the riding has flipped between the Liberals and NDP. It's been Liberal since 2015.

Among the candidates were Naqvi and former NDP MPP Joel Harden, who beat Naqvi in the provincial race in 2018. Harden finished second.

After the usual independent boundary review, Ottawa Centre now includes voters northwest of Bank Street and the railway tracks near Walkley — the Mooney's Bay and Billings Bridge areas, for example — that were previously in Ottawa South.

The Shillington Avenue area and many homes around the north end of Broadview Area changed to Ottawa West-Nepean.

Nine candidates ran here this election.