Editing Laurin Liu (section)

==MP for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles==

Liu had not expected to win, and spent most of the campaign helping NDP Quebec lieutenant Thomas Mulcair win reelection. She was working in a polling station in Mulcair's Outremont riding as an NDP scrutineer[10] when a friend texted her that she was leading Bloc Québécois incumbent Luc Desnoyers.

Ultimately, she crushed Desnoyers by a staggering 11,000-vote margin. By comparison, no NDP candidate had finished higher than fourth since the riding's creation in 1997, and all previous NDP challengers had gotten below the 10% necessary for their expenses to be refunded. At the age of 20 years, 196 days, Liu became the youngest woman in Canadian history to be elected to Parliament. She is the second-youngest MP in the 41st parliament, after Pierre-Luc Dusseault.

Liu was named deputy critic for the environment.[11] In this capacity, she represented the NDP at the December 2011 conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, where she denounced the Conservatives' environmental policies.
In the 2012 NDP leadership race following the death of Jack Layton, Liu supported Peggy Nash.

Following the accession of Thomas Mulcair as party leader, Liu was named deputy critic for science and technology.

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