Tyler Watt of the Liberals will replace longtime PC MPP Lisa MacLeod in this west Ottawa riding.

Six first-time MPPs were elected locally in 2022. PC John Jordan was among the ones making their first re-election bid.

A year and a half ago, the Liberals broke the PCs' decades-long hold on the rural west Ottawa riding. With Karen McCrimmon's win on Thursday night, they've secured it for another spell.

Ontario's riding with the longest name has chosen the Progressive Conservatives since the 1950s and MPP Steve Clark since 2010.

The PCs have their fifth straight win in this part of eastern Ontario's western flank.

After a byelection win at the end of last summer, voters in the region's southwest corner have again sided with the Progressive Conservatives.

Kingston and the Islands voters have stayed on a familiar path with the Liberals and candidate Ted Hsu.

The riding runs from rural east Ottawa through communities such as Clarence-Rockland, Casselman and Hawkesbury to the Quebec border.

The Liberals now have a 13-election winning streak in Ottawa South, with John Fraser holding the seat.

From the 1950s until 2022, this riding flipped back and forth between Liberals and Progressive Conservatives. Last elections, the NDP won it for the first time by about 900 votes.

The three-term city councillor for the rural Osgoode ward will now represent the area at Queen's Park.

Ottawa-Vanier has been Liberal since 1971 and will stay that way after their latest electoral win.

This was the first election this century that John Yakabuski's name isn't on this large rural riding's ballot.

Cornwall-area voters have now chosen the Progressive Conservatives in five straight elections after a run of Liberal representation.

The Liberals and NDP have flipped the urban riding back and forth since the 1970s. There was no incumbent running this time around.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives cruised to their third straight majority government Thursday, CBC News projected, after a snap winter election fought amid the spectre of U.S. tariffs.

The polls are closed and we're updating the local riding results as the votes are counted.

Here are Thursday's projected winners of the 16 ridings in eastern Ontario.

Ontario's Special Investigation Unit has cleared four York Regional Police officers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy in Aurora in October.

There's a pincer of snow alerts around the capital for Friday, missing Ottawa-Gatineau but hitting places such as Bancroft, Belleville and the rest of western Quebec.

Slater Street in downtown Ottawa has reopened after Wednesday morning's partial collapse of a parking garage, but the city said efforts to free vehicles still inside the damaged structure continue.

A man found guilty of what the Crown called an execution-style murder in Lowertown in 2022 has received an automatic life sentence and will be ineligible for parole for 17 years.