NDP candidate Alexandre Boulerice is the projected winner in the riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, an eastern Montreal riding.
Its boundaries include the neighbourhood of Petite-Patrie and the western part of Rosemont.
NDP incumbent Alexandre Boulerice won the riding with 41.7 per cent of the vote in 2019. He was first elected in 2011 during the orange wave in Quebec.
Prior to 2011, the Bloc Québécois represented this riding for 21 years with Bernard Bigras serving as MP from 1997-2011.
The riding is predominately French-speaking, with 78.2 per cent of the population listing French as their mother tongue in the 2016 census.
Candidates
NDP: Alexandre Boulerice (incumbent)
Bloc Québécois: Shophika Vaithyanathasarma
Conservative Party: Surleys Perez Hernandez
Green Party: Franco Fiori
Liberal Party: Nancy Drolet
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada: Gisèle Desrochers
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