Brian Riddell will once again be Cambridge's representative at Queen's Park.
Riddell was reelected as MPP during the provincial election on Thursday night.
"I thank the people of Cambridge for having the trust to reelect me in our government," Riddell said.
"I'll do my best and continue to work hard for them. My main concern is Cambridge."
Riddell finished with 19,195 votes, beating out Liberal candidate Rob Deutschmann who finished as the runner-up with 15,121. NDP candidate Marjorie Knight, Green Party candidate Carla Johnson and New Blue candidate Belinda Karahalios rounded out the poll.
Last election he garnered 14,590 votes.
Only 45.86 per cent of eligible voters turned out in the city, according to Elections Ontario.
Following the win, Riddell emphasized his approach of taking a local focus to provincial discussions and putting the best interests of residents first.
"I got into this because of Cambridge because I just didn't see results that should be happening," he said.
"We've done wonderful things for the hospital. I want to start working on the AI bill to get more punch behind it. We're protecting kids, school, hospitals and infrastructure that's important to all Ontarians and Cambridge. I want to keep that going."
Cambridge Liberal candidate Rob Deutschmann, who resigned from Waterloo Region council to run in the provincial election, said at his campaign headquarters on Hespeler Road he has no regrets about his choice but was disappointed he couldn’t flip the riding.
“I still feel the province isn’t being well run and I don’t think Doug Ford deserves a majority government because by every metric things are falling apart in Ontario,” Deutschmann said.
With another PC majority projected early in the night, Deutschmann said the election ultimately wasn’t necessary and was called to avoid the Greenbelt scandal.
“He was looking for a reason to call the election all along, even before the Trump tariffs,” Deutschmann said.
The Liberals improved on their result in the Cambridge riding from 2022 in which they came a close third with 20 per cent of the vote behind second place NDP Marjorie Knight who garnered 22 per cent of the vote. Riddell got a 37 per cent share of the vote to win in 2022.
He was announced as the riding’s Liberal candidate less than a week before the snap election was called.
Deutschmann is a personal injury lawyer and served as mayor of North Dumfries from 2010 to 2014.
Knight said in a phone call she was also disappointed in the result and felt she wasn’t able to go out campaigning as much as she would have liked.
As for Johnson, she felt her campaign was stronger this time around but admits it had its unique challenges.
“I felt pretty good about it considering we had such a short amount of time to prepare and get things together and a team together,” Johnson said of the short lead up time to the election.
“I felt this time I networked and connected.”
– with files from Keegan Kozolanka/CambridgeToday