Waterloo is a provincial electoral district in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada that is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.[1]
 Ontario electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Waterloo in relation to southern Ontario ridings (2015 boundaries) | |||
| Coordinates: | 43°29′N 80°31′W / 43.48°N 80.52°W | ||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| MPP |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2018 | ||
| Last contested | 2022 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 110,135 | ||
| Electors (2018) | 88,580 | ||
| Area (km²) | 75 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,468.5 | ||
| Census division(s) | Waterloo | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Waterloo, Kitchener | ||
Geography
editThe Waterloo electoral district contains all of the city of Waterloo plus the Bridgeport neighbourhood of Kitchener.
Members of Provincial Parliament
edit| Waterloo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Kitchener—Waterloo | ||||
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Catherine Fife | New Democratic | |
| 43rd | 2022–present | |||
Election results
edit| 2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Catherine Fife | 20,615 | 45.89 | −4.65 | $79,926 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Andrew Aitken | 13,176 | 29.33 | −2.08 | $55,487 | |||
| Liberal | Jennifer Tuck | 6,251 | 13.92 | +1.75 | $28,468 | |||
| Green | Shefaza Esmail | 3,110 | 6.92 | +2.09 | $7,305 | |||
| New Blue | Vladimir Voznyuk | 1,178 | 2.62 | $4,970 | ||||
| Ontario Party | Benjamin Hufnagel | 359 | 0.80 | $0 | ||||
| Communist | Christian Shingiro | 130 | 0.29 | $0 | ||||
| Electoral Reform | Peter House | 103 | 0.23 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 44,922 | 99.52 | +0.79 | $130,920 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 216 | 0.48 | -0.79 | |||||
| Turnout | 45,138 | 48.41 | -13.39 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 93,522 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | −1.29 | ||||||
Source(s)
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| 2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Catherine Fife | 27,315 | 50.54 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dan Weber | 16,973 | 31.41 | |||||
| Liberal | Dorothy McCabe | 6,577 | 12.17 | |||||
| Green | Zdravko Gunjevic | 2,613 | 4.83 | |||||
| Libertarian | Andrew Allison | 566 | 1.05 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 54,097 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Turnout | 64.5 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 83,924 | |||||||
| New Democratic pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[2] | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Ontario's Liberal government adds 15 new ridings, bringing total to 122". CBC. Canadian Press. December 2, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 12. Retrieved 20 January 2019.