Final list of Ottawa candidates out for upcoming federal election

The nation’s capital: The heart of federal politics and the home of two highly contested ridings where two party leaders are vying for votes.

As the campaign hits the halfway point and people are expecting their voter cards in the mail by the end of this week, Elections Canada has finalized the list of candidates.

Two of the city’s local ridings, Carleton and Nepean, are where Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney hope to win. The battlegrounds were drawn between the two leaders after the Liberals revoked Chandra Arya’s nomination to run in this election — giving the opening to Carney where the riding borders the one Poilievre has held since 2015.

That riding was targeted by the Longest Ballot Committee, an organization advocating for electoral reform. Poilievre is one of 91 candidates and voters are set to expect a count that could last well into the night.

There are nine seats up for grabs in Ottawa. Voting day is April 28.

Kanata

• Jenna Sudds, Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
• Greg Kung, Conservative Party of Canada
• Jennifer Purdy, Green Party of Canada
• Moinuddin Siddiqui, Centrist Party of Canada
• Melissa Simon, New Democratic Party

Ottawa West — Nepean

• Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
• Glen Armstrong, People’s Party of Canada
• Josh Bizjak, New Democratic Party
• Prashanta Dhakal, Green Party of Canada
• Sean Mulligan, Christian Heritage Party of Canada
• Ryan Telford, Conservative Party of Canada

Nepean

• Barbara Bal, Conservative Party of Canada
• Mark Carney, Liberal Party of Canada
• Eric Fleury, People’s Party of Canada
• Greg Hopkins, Green Party of Canada
• Shyam Shukla, New Democratic Party

Ottawa South

• David McGuinty, Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
• William Cooper, Parti Rhinocéros Party
• Nira Dookeran, Green Party of Canada
• Hena Masjedee, New Democratic Party
• Alex Perrier, Christian Heritage Party of Canada
• John Redins, Canadian Future Party
• Blair Turner, Conservative Party of Canada

Ottawa Centre

• Yasir Naqvi, Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
• Andrea Chabot, Canadian Future Party
• Zed Chebib, Independent
• Joel Harden, New Democratic Party
• Marie-Chantal Leriche, Christian Heritage Party of Canada
• Paul D’Orsonnens, Conservative Party of Canada
• Cashton Perry, Communist Party of Canada
• Amanda Rosenstock, Green Party of Canada
• Mike Salmon, Independent

Ottawa — Vanier — Gloucester

• Elizabeth Benoit, Independent
• Coreen Corcoran, Libertarian Party of Canada
• Mona Fortier, Liberal Party of Canada
• Christian Legeais, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
• Tristan Oliff, New Democratic Party
• Christian Proulx, Green Party of Canada
• Marty Simms, People’s Party of Canada
• Dean Wythe, Conservative Party of Canada

Orléans 

• Marie-France Lalonde, Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
• Tafiqul Abu Mohammad, People’s Party of Canada
• Arlo Arrowsmith, Libertarian Party of Canada
• Mazhar Choudhry, Independent
• Oulai B. Goué, New Democratic Party
• Jaycob Jacques, Green Party of Canada
• Steve Mansour, Conservative Party of Canada
• Arabella Vida, Independent

Prescott—Russell—Cumberland 

• Ryder Finlay, New Democratic Party
• Giovanna Mingarelli, Liberal Party of Canada
• Deborah Perrier, People’s Party of Canada
• Thaila Riden, Green Party of Canada
• Julie Séguin, Conservative Party of Canada
• Jason St-Louis, Independent

Carleton

• Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Party of Canada (incumbent)
• Bruce Fanjoy, Liberal Party of Canada
• Beth Prokaska, New Democratic Party
• Mark Watson, Green Party of Canada
• Karen Bourdeau, United Party of Canada (UP)
• Shawn MacEachern, Canadian Future Party
• Sébastien CoRhino, Parti Rhinocéros Party
• Danny Légaré, Marijuana Party

The rest of the candidates on the ballot are:

Sana Ahmad	Independent
Mélodie Anderson	Independent
Marthalee Aykroyd	Independent
Alex Banks	Independent
Tetia Bayoro	Independent
Sophie Bearden	Independent
Michael Bednarski	Independent
Line Bélanger	Independent
Jeani Boudreault	No Affiliation
Alain Bourgault	Independent
John Boylan	Independent
Sarah Burke	Independent
Dante Camarena Jimenez	Independent
Jenny Cartwright	Independent
Jaël Champagne Gareau	Independent
David Cherniak	Independent
Charlie Currie	Independent
John Dale	Independent
Manon Marie Lili Desbiens	No Affiliation
Gerrit Dogger	Independent
Ysack Dupont	No Affiliation
Alexandra Engering	Independent
Scott Falkingham	Independent
Euan Fraser Tait	Independent
Maria Gabriel	Independent
Daniel Gagnon	Independent
Pierre Gauthier	Independent
Gregory Gillis	Independent
Jeffrey Goodman	Independent
Peter Gorman	Independent
Daniel Graham	Independent
Artem Gudkov	Independent
Zornitsa Halacheva	Independent
Anthony Hamel	Independent
Blake Hamilton	Independent
Robert Harris	Independent
Loren Hicks	Independent
Kerri Hildebrandt	No Affiliation
Andrea Hollinger	Independent
Trevor Holsworth	Independent
Seyed Hosseini Lavasani	Independent
Ryan Huard	Independent
Demetrios Karavas	Independent
Laina Kohler	No Affiliation
Kevin Krisa	Independent
Krzysztof Krzywinski	No Affiliation
Dan Kyung	Independent
Samuel Lafontaine	Independent
Alain Lamontagne	Independent
Alexander Lein	No Affiliation
Charles Lemieux	Independent
Connie Lukawski	Independent
Agnieszka Marszalek	Independent
Joseph Maw	Independent
Donald McKay	Independent
Mark Moutter	Independent
Christopher Navarro-Canseco	No Affiliation
Winston Neutel	Independent
David Nguyen	Independent
Sheri Oberman	Independent
John Francis O’Flynn	Independent
Lény Painchaud	Independent
Lanna Palsson	Independent
Guillaume Paradis	Independent
Lajos Polya	Independent
Lorant Polya	Independent
Spencer Rocchi	Independent
Wallace Richard Rowat	Independent
Julian Selody	Independent
Hakim Sheriff	Independent
Roger Sherwood	Independent
Yogo Shimada	Independent
Michael Skirzynski	Independent
Julie St-Amand	Independent
Pascal St-Amand	Independent
Patrick Strzalkowski	Independent
Daniel Stuckless	Independent
Benjamin Teichman	Independent
Sarah Thompson	Independent
Darcy Vanderwater	No Affiliation
Elliot Wand	Independent
Michal Wieczorek	Independent
David Zhu	Independent