RECOMMENDED VIDEO Lawyer Monica Ciriello won for the PCs by more than 2,000 votes ahead of Liberal candidate Dawn Danko with NDP candidate Kojo Damptey in third. Party officials say it was hustle by Ciriello that helped her win a riding the PCs haven’t won since 1995. In Ottawa, the Liberals stole the riding of Nepean from the PCs and blocked the PCs from taking back Kanata-Carleton. Nepean had been represented by MPP Lisa MacLeod since 2006 and will now be represented by nurse turned politician Tyler Watt. Watt has grown a sizeable audience in social media and used that to help his campaign. If he uses his audience and his at times bombastic style in a good way, he will draw attention to his party. If he uses it in the wrong way, he’ll be a burden on his party. In Kanata-Carleton, Karen McCrimmon kept a riding she won in 2023, but one the PC Party wanted back. They had held the riding for decades but lost in a byelection that was dominated by a very local issue – building homes on a beloved golf course. That McCrimmon was able to hold the riding shows her hustle in the riding and on the campaign trail.