Greg Fergus keeps HullAylmer Liberal

CBC News projects Liberal incumbentGreg Fergusis the winner in HullAylmer.

Fergusgarnered27,560 votes or53.8 per cent of ballots cast as of 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, with205 out of215 ballots counted. The distant runner-up,Bloc Qubcoiscandidate Joanie Riopel, receivedonly 7,708 votes or15 per cent of the vote.

Fergus said it was an incredible feeling to be trusted the first time around, and that his constituents had enough confidence that he was doing a good job to re-elect him.

He said his constituents supported the Liberal messages around the environment, the economy and social cohesion.

"I'm very content that the people of Hull-Aylmer supported this vision," Fergus said in a French-language interview.

This was one of more than a dozen local ridings represented by a Liberal MP first elected in 2015.

Fergusbeat out former NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel by about 11,000 votes in 2015 she had been the only non-Liberal elected here since 1917.

Fergus facedMarxist-Leninist candidateAlexandre Deschnes; Conservative candidate and Gatineau Coun.Mike Duggan, whose Deschnes ward encompasses a portionof the federal riding;Sbastien Grenierof the Rhinocerous Party,Jose Poirier-Defoyof the Greens, who works to improve access to food and reduce food waste; Riopel of the Bloc;Rowen Tanguay of the People's Party; andNicolas Thibodeau of the NDP, who has worked in green architecture and on Parliament Hill.

HullAylmer in 2015