Not surprisingly, Liberal Anna Gainey won the Montreal by-election campaign for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount.

The former Liberal Party president is among four new MPs elected in as many constituencies Monday night, after by-elections that didn’t change the color of Canada’s electoral map.

After all the ballot boxes were counted, Ms. Gainey prevailed against her nine opponents with 50.8% of the votes. NDP candidates Jean-François Filion, Conservative Party candidates Mathew Kaminski and Green Party candidates Jonathan Pedneault followed, each scoring between 13.3% and 13.8%.

Announcing her victory, Ms. Gainey said she was very honored and proud of her volunteers.

“I’ve been involved for a very long time and now I have the opportunity to really represent my community. I was born here, I raise my family here, I call home here, and with Mr. Garneau retired, this is an opportunity to take that leap,” she said.

Ten people wanted to succeed outgoing minister Marc Garneau, who announced his resignation last March.

The Liberal Party of Canada also maintains its support in the Winnipeg South Centre, where Ben Carr, son of longtime MP Jim Carr, who died last December, was easily elected with 55.5% of the vote after a full count.

Conservative Party candidate Damir Stipanovic took second place with 23.7% of the vote, ahead of the NDP’s Julia Riddell, who received 14.5% of the vote.

A total of 48 candidates were officially on the ballot in this election campaign in Manitoba.

New setback for Maxime Bernier

For his part, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, will not be able to regain a seat in the House of Commons, having lost to Conservative Brendan Leslie in a pentathlon led by Portage-Lisgar, also in Manitoba.

After nearly 100% of the ballot boxes were counted, Mr Leslie, a former Parliament Hill staffer, led the way with 64.9% of the vote. Far behind was Mr Bernier with 17.2% of the vote, while Liberal Kerry Smith received 8.7%.

Mr. Bernier wanted to give his party a bigger voice and prove that conservatives are not strong enough in the “culture wars” that plague their supporters. He campaigned against transgender inclusive policies and vowed to reopen the abortion debate.

In the last general election, Mr Bernier’s candidate received nearly 22% of the vote in the constituency that elected Conservative and former interim leader of the party, Candice Bergen. She announced last fall that she was retiring.

Oxford remains in Conservative circles

Six losing candidates failed to overthrow the conservative stronghold of Oxford, a largely rural county in southern Ontario.

Incumbent Conservative Dave MacKenzie announced in December that he was stepping down from his seat after winning the 2021 federal election with nearly 47% of the vote.

According to him, the power struggles in the party have led to “the dirtiest election campaign that we have ever seen in our constituency”. The outgoing Conservative also caused an upset by backing Liberal candidate David Hilderley, who finished second in the race.

His seat was coveted primarily by Conservative Arpan Khanna, a candidacy rejected by the incumbent MP, who had accused Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Speaker of the House, former Speaker Andrew Scheer, of influencing the affairs of the local Interfere with the association’s nomination process and disempower the base.

Still, it is the colt of the Tenor Conservatives that won in that constituency with 43% of the vote, compared to 36.2% for David Hilderley after counting 265 of the 267 ballot boxes.

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