 Ontario electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Kitchener Centre in relation to Southern Ontario ridings | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| MPP |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2018 | ||
| Last contested | 2022 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 105,305 | ||
| Electors (2018) | 77,296 | ||
| Area (km²) | 107 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 984.2 | ||
| Census division(s) | Waterloo | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Kitchener, Cambridge | ||
Kitchener South—Hespeler (French: Kitchener-Sud—Hespeler) is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 2015 and has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since the 42nd Ontario general election.
Geography
Kitchener South—Hespeler was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts following the passage of the Representation Act, 2015[1] using the boundaries set out by the 2013 Federal Representation Order.
The new Kitchener South—Hespeler electoral district includes:
- The portion of the City of Cambridge lying northerly of Ontario Highway 401
- The portion of the City of Kitchener lying:
- Southerly of the Conestoga Parkway
- Easterly of Fischer-Hallman Road
- Westerly of Ontario Highway 8 between the Conestoga Parkway and Fairway Road
- Westerly of the border between the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener between Fairway Road and Ontario Highway 401
Prominent Places
Kitchener South - Hespeler is home to several prominent places for the region including:
- Conestoga College's Doon and Cambridge Campuses
- McLennan Park
- Huron Natural Area
- Hespeler Village
- Chicopee Ski Hill
- Toyota Manufacturing Plant - major employer for the region
- Loblaws Distribution Centre - major employer for the region
- Fairview Park Mall
- Sportsworld Shopping Centre
- Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory
- Homer Watson House & Gallery
- Grand Valley Instuition for Women
- Ken Sieling Waterloo Region Museum and Doon Heritage Village
Members of Provincial Parliament
| Kitchener South-Hespeler | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Kitchener South—Hespeler Riding created from Kitchener—Conestoga , Kitchener Centre and Cambridge |
||||
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Amy Fee | Progressive Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2022–present | Jess Dixon | ||
Electoral history
| 2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jess Dixon | 13,768 | 39.91 | +1.05 | ||||
| New Democratic | Joanne Weston | 9,118 | 26.43 | -10.62 | ||||
| Liberal | Ismail Mohamed | 5,629 | 16.32 | +1.41 | ||||
| Green | David Weber | 3,993 | 11.58 | +4.05 | ||||
| New Blue | John Teat | 1,436 | 4.16 | |||||
| Ontario Party | David Gillies | 552 | 1.60 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 34,496 | |||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 266 | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Eligible voters | ||||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +5.84 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[2] | ||||||||
| 2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Amy Fee | 16,511 | 38.86 | +6.78 | ||||
| New Democratic | Fitz Vanderpool | 15,741 | 37.05 | +13.80 | ||||
| Liberal | Surekha Shenoy | 6,335 | 14.91 | -21.62 | ||||
| Green | David Weber | 3,198 | 7.53 | +1.27 | ||||
| Libertarian | Nathan Andre Lajeunesse | 423 | 1.00 | -0.88 | ||||
| Independent | Narine Sookram | 275 | 0.65 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 42,483 | 98.47 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 661 | 1.53 | ||||||
| Turnout | 43,144 | 55.82 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 77,296 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +14.20 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||
| 2014 general election redistributed results[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 12,403 | 36.53 | |
| Progressive Conservative | 10,894 | 32.08 | |
| New Democratic | 7,895 | 23.25 | |
| Green | 2,124 | 6.26 | |
| Libertarian | 638 | 1.88 | |
Notes
- ↑ "Representation Act, 2015, S.O. 2015, c. 31, Sched. 1". www.ontario.ca. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
- ↑ "Candidates in: Kitchener South—Hespeler (049)". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
- ↑ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ↑ "49 - Kitchener South-Hespeler".
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