Liberals retain a stronghold on West Island rides

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The Coalition Avenir Québec won a landslide election Monday, claiming 90 of 125 seats provincewide, but Quebec Liberals once again carried all four West Island constituencies.

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Unsurprisingly, incumbent Greg Kelley successfully carried the Liberal flag at Jacques-Cartier, considered one of the safest Liberal venues in Quebec. He was re-elected with 62.56 percent of the vote. In second place was Louis-Charles Fortier of the Conservative Party of Quebec with 11.23 percent.

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CAQ candidate Rébecca Guénard-Chouinard got 9.42 percent, followed by Quebec’s Canadian Parry Arther Fischer, who finished fourth with 5.04 percent.

Liberal MNA Monsef Derraji was also re-elected in Nelligan with 52.03 percent of the vote.

CAQ candidate Cynthia Lapierre finished second with 16.65 percent, followed by Gary Charles of the Quebec Conservative Party with 15.09 percent.

Jean Marier of the fledgling Canadian Party of Quebec was sixth with 3.02 percent.

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Nelligan’s riding includes Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève and Kirkland.

In the Robert-Baldwin riding, Liberal newcomer Brigitte Garceau was easily elected with 57.65 of the vote.

Garceau, a family lawyer, replaced outgoing MNA Carlos Leitão, who also served as finance minister under former Liberal Prime Minister Philippe Couillard.

Axel Lellouche of the Conservative Party of Quebec was runner-up in Robert-Baldwin with 15.94 percent.

Maïté Beaudoin of the CAQ was third with 9.87 percent. Marieve Ruel of Québec solidaire was fourth with 5.03 percent, followed by Jonathan Gray of the Canadian Party of Quebec with 4.08 percent.

In the Marquette riding, which encompasses the cities of Dorval, Dorval Island and Lachine Township, Enrico Ciccone was re-elected with 46.73 percent of the vote.

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CAQ candidate Marc Baaklini finished second with 21.82 percent.

Jérémy Côté of Québec solidaire was third with 11.27 percent, while Sam Nassr of the Quebec Conservative Party was fourth with 9.13 percent.

Quebec Liberals also managed to cling to driving off the island of Vaudreuil on election night to bite their nails.

After trailing for much of the night to CAQ candidate Eve Bélec, incumbent Liberal MNA Marie-Claude Nichols managed to win her third consecutive election by a margin of 576 votes.

With the 208 reported polls, Nichols obtained 34.22 percent of the vote, while Bélec obtained 32.77 percent.

Nichols, a family attorney, was first elected as an MNA in 2014.

The CAQ was victorious in neighboring Soulanges, where Marilyne Picard was re-elected with 42.62 percent of the vote. Liberal candidate Catherine St. Amour finished second with 21.82 percent.

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