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Canada election results: Glengarry—Prescott—Russell

Liberal Party candidate Francis Drouin is projected to win re-election in Glengarry—Prescott—Russell.

The riding of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell is located in eastern Ontario.

It includes the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, part of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry and part of the City of Ottawa. It borders on the Ottawa River and Quebec.

In this typically red riding, Conservative MP Pierre Lemieux held the seat from 2006 until 2015, when he was defeated by Drouin by 16.9 percentage points.

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Lemieux ran for the seat again in 2019 but once again lost to Drouin.

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Almost 50 per cent of the riding’s population has had a form of postsecondary education, according to the 2016 census.

Candidates

Liberal: Francis Drouin (incumbent)
Conservative: Susan McArthur
NDP: Konstantine Malakos
Green: Daniel Lapierre
PPC: Brennan Austring
Free Party of Canada: Marc Bisaillon
independent: The Joker

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