Global News is projecting Tim Louis has been re-elected as the Liberal MP for Kitchener Conestoga.
The riding was first formed in 2003 with Liberal Lynn Myers elected as the inaugural MP in 2004. Myers was narrowly defeated by Conservative Harold Albrecht in 2006.
The Liberal Party’s Tim Louis defeated Albrecht, who held the seat for 13 years, by just a few hundred votes in the 2019 election.
The Ontario riding of Kitchener–Conestoga includes the western portion of the city of Kitchener as well as some of the smaller communities in the Waterloo region including Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.
The area is home to 100,709 voters.
The region has one of Canada’s largest Mennonite populations.
Candidates
Liberals: Tim Louis (incumbent)
Conservatives: Carlene Hawley
NDP: Narine Dat Sookram
Green: Owen Bradley
PPC: Kevin Dupuis
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