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Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi got served in his home riding of Ottawa Centre in Thursday’s provincial election as voters ousted the Liberal incumbent and gave the NDP a shot at representing the national capital’s core at Queen’s Park.

The NDP’s Joel Harden cruised to victory, taking 46 per cent of the vote with late polls still to report on Thursday.

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A jubilant Harden arrived to a City Centre warehouse space soon after polls closed and was immediately enveloped in the excited embrace of his wife Clare Roscoe and the couple’s two children, Adele and Emery.

Harden told the crowd of several hundred supporters his campaign began months ago in a backyard on Bellwood Avenue, where a group of people came together because they were, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

He acknowledged his political mentors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow, and thanked Algonquin elder Claudette Commanda for offering an official welcome to the traditional Indigenous territory.