Federal election 2025: Liberal Marie-France Lalonde leading in bid for third term in Orléans

Liberal Marie-France Lalonde appeared bound for re-election in the riding of Orléans on Monday, marking her third federal election win in a row. With 11.5 per cent of polls reporting, Lalonde had 3,096 votes, exactly double the total of 1,548 for second-place Conservative candidate Steve Mansour.

The NDP’s Oulai B. Goué was a distant third with 142 votes. The riding, created as Carleton-Gloucester in 1987, had been Liberal from 1988 to 2006, then turned to the Conservatives with Royal Galipeau from 2006 to 2015.



Liberal Andrew Leslie wrested the riding from Galipeau in 2015. In May 2019, Leslie announced his retirement from politics and did not seek re-election. Lalonde, a senior manager in the retirement homes sector, already had a lengthy political résumé by then.

In her first provincial election in 2014, Lalonde trounced Progressive Conservative candidate Andrew Lister in Ottawa-Orléans by more than 11,000 votes. She was the Liberal MPP for the riding from 2014 to 2019, serving as Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Minister of Government and Consumer Services and Minister of Francophone Affairs. Only days after Leslie announced he would not seek re-election, Lalonde declared she was running for the federal seat, later resigning as MPP.

In October 2019, she was elected as MP, winning more than 54 per cent of the vote, and she was re-elected in 2021 with almost 52 per cent of the vote. In 2024, when riding boundaries were redrawn, Blackburn Hamlet was trimmed from the Orl é ans riding and added to Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester. Lalonde has served as at various times as the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Defence, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages.

Lalonde said she was a proud Franco-Ontarian and defender of Francophone minority linguistic rights with a proven track record. She argues there is a need to expand the federal footprint in Orléans and says she has worked to bring the Ottawa East Service Canada Centre and Passport Services office to Orléans, as well as 105 federal co-working spaces to Place d’Orléans. In an interview with Postmedia, Lalonde pledged to grow the public service’s presence in Orléans by creating permanent co-working spaces for public servants, and she pledged to expand the space and make it permanent.

“(Public service workers) have been the backbone of the work that has been done for years,” she said. “Because of their willingness and certainly hard-at-work perspective, we were able to deliver for many, many people in all the programs that was much needed during this pandemic.” She also promised to engage other levels of government to ensure the construction of a pedestrian bridge at the Trim LRT station.

“I have heard from many folks in our community about the need to accelerate this project to enable easier access to the LRT, especially for seniors, young families, students and individuals with mobility needs,” Lalonde said. Mansour, who has has worked on Parliament Hill and in the federal public service, wrote in an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen that many Orléans residents had been stretched thin over food and housing costs. Families in the riding had expressed frustration that they were left out of the national childcare program, which promised $10-a-day child care for parents and thousands of new childcare spaces, he said.

Meanwhile, return-to-office mandates had affected public servants and their families, who now spend a lot of time commuting to the office rather than spending time with their families, Mansour said. “For years, we were told that remote work was working. Parents were there to walk their kids to school, to be home for dinner,” he said.

“Now, many of those same parents are spending two hours every day stuck in traffic on roads that, much like our health care and housing infrastructures, are burdened far beyond the number of people they were designed for,” Mansour said. Other candidates in the race included Goué of the NDP, Jaycob Jacques of the Green Party, Tafiqul Abu Mohammed of the People’s Party, Libertarian Arlo Arrowsmith and independent candidates Mazhar Choudury and Arabella Vida. ALL RIDING RESULTS Please check back as we update results live.

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