Liberal candidate Steven Guilbeault is the projected winner in the riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie,
The riding is located in downtown Montreal. It includes parts of the boroughs of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and Ville-Marie. Both of the boroughs are popular with tourists. The riding sits along the St. Lawrence River.
Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois was first elected MP of the riding in a byelection in 1990 as an Independent. He ran again in 1993 under the BQ leadership and held the seat until 2011, when he was defeated by the NDP’s Hélène Laverdière.
Laverdière held the seat from 2011 until 2019, but did not run again. NDP candidate Nimâ Machouf was defeated by Liberal Steven Guilbeault.
Guilbeault, who is an advocate in the fight against the climate crisis, is also the current minister of Canadian heritage.
Just over 22 per cent of the riding’s population works in sales and service occupations.
Candidates
Liberal Party: Steven Guilbeault (incumbent)
Animal Protection Party of Canada: Kimberly Lamontagne
Bloc Québécois: Marie-Ève-Lyne Michel
Communist Party of Canada: Adrien Welsh
Conservative Party: Ronan Reich
Free Party Canada: Julie Morin
Green Party: Jean-Michel Lavarenne
Independent: Cyril Julien
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada: Serge Lachapelle
NDP: Nimâ Machouf
People’s Party of Canada: Daniel Tanguay