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While they held fewer local seats, Ottawa’s Conservative riding associations had a slight edge over their Liberal counterparts when it came to their financial footing going into this election year, an analysis by this newspaper shows.

We examined the financial returns of close to 50 electoral district associations (EDAs) in 13 Ottawa-area ridings to assess their self-reported financial situation at the end of 2018.

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Returns were available for Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat EDAs in all of the 13 ridings except for Ottawa West-Nepean, where the local Conservative association’s return was not available. Elections Canada said it contained incomplete information, and will be posted once all requirements are met. Green Party riding associations returns were also available in a number of cases.

The data show that the combined net assets of 12 Conservative riding associations in Ottawa and the surrounding area totalled close to $1.7 million in 2018. The Liberal total, from 13 riding associations, was about $1.4 million. NDP riding associations trailed far behind at just over $100,000, while the nine local Green riding associations with submitted financial returns had a combined $43,000 in net assets.