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Originally Posted by toaster
Gatineau will probably flip from BQ to NDP, and Ottawa-Orleans might go from CON to LIB. Outside change that Hull-Aylmer goes NDP too, considering NDP is at 20% in Quebec, highest it's ever been and higher than all other federalist parties.
Also, one thing I've never understood is why the Kanata riding is named Careleton - Mississippi Mills instead of Ottawa - Kanata like it's neighbor to the East (Ottawa - Orleans is not named "Cumberland - Rockland").
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Have you looked at the map of the riding itself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton—Mississippi_Mills
It encompasses the western parts of the former RMOC / Carleton County (former townships of West Carleton and Goulbourn) and the 'town' of Mississippi Mills (in geographical reality a township) in Lanark County. Granted, it also includes Kanata.
The name of the riding could do with including 'Kanata' in it, but there's no particular rationale to include 'Ottawa' in the name. There are plenty of ridings in Toronto that don't have 'Toronto' in their name, after all, and there's Nepean-Carleton.
As Cre47 notes, it'll probably be sorted out in the next electoral map revision (my guess is Kanata-Stittsville, though it depends also on what happens to the rest of the 'Carleton' portion of the riding).