Canada Votes 2025: Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester
Blackburn Hamlet comes to the former Ottawa-Vanier

Ottawa-Vanier has expanded east and adds a segment to its name.
Blackburn Hamlet moves from Orléans to keep population counts from getting too skewed under the regular independent boundary review after the 2021 census.
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The riding has chosen Liberals every election since 1935. Mona Fortier got 49 per cent of the vote in 2021.
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 ahead of election day on Monday, April 28.
Here are the candidates.
Elizabeth Benoit, Independent
Benoit has worked in policy and inclusivity in the federal public service and mentors younger workers. She moved to Canada from Mauritius at age 11.
Coreen Corcoran, Libertarian Party
Corcoran lives in Beacon Hill and has run for the party a few times over the last decade.
Mona Fortier, Liberal
Fortier came to Parliament Hill in a 2017 byelection. She was a senior director at La Cité college before that and a volunteer board member for institutions such as the Montfort Hospital.
Christian Legeais, Marxist-Leninist Party
The party hasn't shared a biography for this candidate. Someone with the same name has run here before.
Tristan Oliff, NDP
Oliff's background is in communications and marketing. He formerly worked as press secretary for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and later founded a consulting communications business for non-profits.
Christian Proulx, Green
Proulx is a construction foreman who has worked across Canada. He ran for the Greens here in recent federal and provincial elections.
Marty Simms, People's Party
Simms is an IT consultant and guardian of an adult son with autism.
Dean Wythe, Conservative
Wythe is a federal policy adviser from New Edinburgh with experience in defence and international affairs. He and his wife had their first child three days before the campaign officially began.