Ontario Election: Post-election notes

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What a boring
[
 election
](http://ottawastart.com/election_ontario.php)
- at least in Ottawa.
  


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All the incumbents got back in: Norm Sterling, Lisa MacLeod, Phil McNeely, Dalton McGuinty, Madeleine Meilleur & Jim Watson.
  


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The only "new guy" is Yasir Naqvi, a Liberal in Ottawa Centre.  He replaces Liberal MPP Richard Patten, who didn't run for re-election.
  


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Very similar to the municipal election last fall - when
[
 every single incumbent was re-elected
](http://ottawastart.com/ottawa-election-round-up-some-things-change-some-dont/)
.
  


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[
 Randall Denley
](http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=24561a8b-4153-4fb5-afba-6af59194f6b7)
summed it up today in the Ottawa Citizen: "We take the same approach as we do when ordering a pizza. We just pick what we had the last time."

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The Green Party beat the NDP in 2 local ridings - Carleton-Mississippi Mills and Nepean-Carleton.
  


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Given how "safe" voters tend to be these days, the fact that 36.9% actually voted to change our electoral system is pretty remarkable.

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Highest voter turn-out in Ottawa was in Ottawa-Centre, where 60.5% of eligible voters cast a ballot.  Lowest voter turn-out was Ottawa-Vanier, 53.3%.

** Related: ** Ottawa Election Guide