With no history of its own to go off of, Kitchener South-Hespeler defied its predecessors by voting Liberal.
Marwan Tabbara was elected as the first MP to represent the new riding, which includes areas that previously belonged to Kitchener Centre, Kitchener-Conestoga and Cambridge in southern portions of Kitchener and northern parts of Cambridge.
All of those ridings had voted Conservative in 2011, although Kitchener Centre and Cambridge went red this time around.
With 155 of 195 polls reporting, Tabbara had 42.4 per cent of the vote.
That put him ahead of Conservative candidate Marian Gagne, with 36.6 per cent, and the NDP's Lorne Bruce, with 15.2 per cent.
Green candidate David Weber, Libertarian Nathan Lajeunesse and Marxist-Leninist Elaine Baetz rounded out the field.
