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Niagara West (provincial electoral district)
Niagara West is a provincial electoral district in south eastern Ontario, Canada.
| Ontario electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Niagara West in relation to Hamilton and Niagara area ridings | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| MPP |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2018 | ||
| Last contested | 2022 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 90,840 | ||
| Electors (2018) | 73,913 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 1,122 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 81 | ||
| Census division(s) | Niagara | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, St. Catharines, Wainfleet, West Lincoln | ||
This riding was created following the creation of the new federal Niagara West riding in the 2012 federal electoral redistribution and includes portions of the former Niagara West—Glanbrook, Niagara Centre and St. Catharines ridings. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 42nd general election.
Members of Provincial Parliament edit
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Niagara West—Glanbrook, Niagara Centre and St. Catharines | ||||
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Sam Oosterhoff | Progressive Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2022–present | |||
Election results edit
| 2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sam Oosterhoff | 18,779 | 44.93 | -7.88 | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Augustyn | 8,658 | 20.72 | -9.09 | ||||
| Liberal | Doug Joyner | 8,013 | 19.17 | +8.65 | ||||
| Green | Laura Garner | 2,702 | 6.46 | +0.85 | ||||
| Ontario Party | Dan Dale | 2,207 | 5.28 | |||||
| New Blue | Chris Arnew | 1,098 | 2.62 | |||||
| Libertarian | Stefanos Karatopis | 259 | 0.62 | -0.36 | ||||
| Populist | Jim Torma | 80 | 0.19 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 41,796 | 99.4 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 251 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Turnout | 42,047 | 53.05 | -11.05 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 78,783 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +0.61 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||
| 2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sam Oosterhoff | 24,394 | 52.81 | |||||
| New Democratic | Curtis Fric | 13,769 | 29.81 | |||||
| Liberal | Joe Kanee | 4,859 | 10.52 | |||||
| Green | Jessica Tillmanns | 2,590 | 5.61 | |||||
| Libertarian | Stefanos Karatopis | 451 | 0.98 | |||||
| Multicultural | Geoffrey E. Barton | 127 | 0.27 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 46,190 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 64.10 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 72,067 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[4] | ||||||||
Sources edit
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2012
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2012
- ^ "Vote Totals from Official Tabulation - Niagara West (070)" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
- ^ (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- Redistribution of Electoral Districts
- Niagara West – Proposed Boundaries
- Proclamation Declaring the Representation Order to be in Force Effective on the First Dissolution of Parliament that Occurs after May 1, 2014
- Map of riding for 2018 election
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