Montreal's West Island painted red by Liberals

Montreal's West Island, largely a Liberal stronghold until the 2011 Orange Wave, has turned red once again.

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Liberal candidate Francis Scarpaleggiawas re-elected inLac-Saint-Louis, winning with a massivemargin reminiscent of pre-2011 numbers.

Scarpaleggia bestedConservative candidate ric Girard and the NDP's Ryan Young by about 30,000votes.

Dorval-Lachine-Lasalle, a newriding, andPierrefonds-Dollard, which went to the NDP in 2011,were both swept up in the red tide.

NDP loses in Dorval-Lachine-Lasalle

InDorval-Lachine-Lasalle,AnjuDhillontook the riding from the NDP incumbentIsabelle Morin by a comfortable margin.

Morin trailed behind Dhillonwith the Conservative's Daniela Chivuwell behind.

Located in the south-central part of Montreal Island, this redistributed riding includes the cities of Dorval and L'le Dorval, as well as the borough of Lachine and part of the borough of LaSalle.

In its former incarnation, the riding was held for more than three decades by Liberal MP WarrenAllmand, who served as solicitor general and as minister of Indian Affairs as well asconsumer and corporate affairs during his tenure.

The Liberals held on to the seat for another decade afterAllmand'sdeparture,before Morin, a26-year-old French teacher and avirtual unknown,won the riding in 2011.

Dhillon, a lawyer, was also up againstJean-FrdricVaudry, a young political organizer running for the BlocQubcois, andSoulyeNdiaye, a public administrator running as an independent candidate.

Liberals take back Pierrefonds-Dollard

Likewise, in Pierrefonds-Dollard, the riding has gone Liberal red once again. Businessman Frank Baylis won it easily.

Baylisgave some of the credit for the strength of his victory tothe man who ran his early campaign, Cameron Ahmad a campaign organizer who Baylis said was so good that Justin Trudeau poached him for the Liberals' national campaign.

"I said, 'Justin you owe me one,'" Cameron told supporters.

Baylis isthe president of a medical technology company who also established his own film-production house.

In 2011, long-time LiberalBernardPatrysaw nearly 20 years of dominationdissolve at the hands of a virtual unknown: NDP candidateLysaneBlanchette-Lamothe.

Blanchette-Lamothewas appointedopposition critic for seniors and later critic forcitizenship and immigration in her first term in office.