MONTREAL – High-profile Liberal candidate Melanie Joly, who was a surprise second place finisher in Montreal’s 2013 mayoral election, has been elected in Ahuntsic-Cartierville.
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Joly’s victory brings the riding back to the Liberals, , who represented it from 1997 to 2006.
A long time Liberal insider, Joly ran Justin Trudeau’s leadership campaign before deciding to through her hat in the race for Montreal mayor in 2013.
Then Liberal incumbent Eleni Bakopanos lost to the Bloc Québécois’ Maria Mourani.
Mourani was expelled from the Bloc’s caucus in 2013 for opposing the Quebec Charter of Values.
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This time round, Mourani, who joined the NDP, came in second place.
The last four elections were close, with margins of victory ranging from 1,200 votes to less than 500.
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The Bloc Québécois‘ new candidate, Nicolas Bourdon came in third and Conservative candidate Wiliam Moughrabi, a furniture store manager, came in fourth.
Moughrabi deleted his social media accounts in August after posts from his Facebook page containing allegedly violent and sexist content were exposed by a political blog.
Voters in the riding outlined the issues they consider to be the most important, ranging from economic policies, job creation, unemployment and sustainable growth.
The riding now includes all of the Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville that lies southwest of Papineau Avenue/Papineau highway.
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About 39.7 per cent of residents in the riding were immigrants as of the last census, the fifth highest number in Quebec.
Around 11.7 per cent identified as Arab, the fourth highest figure in the country.
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