Hamilton Centre (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district, see Hamilton Centre (provincial electoral district).

Hamilton Centre

Ontario electoral district
Hamilton Centre in relation to the other Hamilton area ridings (2003 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	David Christopherson New Democratic
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	101,932
Electors (2015)	68,247
Area (km²)	32
Pop. density (per km²)	3,185.4
Census division(s)	Hamilton
Census subdivision(s)	Hamilton

Hamilton Centre (French: Hamilton-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.

History

It was created in 2003 from parts of Hamilton East, Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot ridings.

This riding lost territory to Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas and gained territory from Hamilton East—Stoney Creek during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Geography

Boundaries description http://www.elections.ca/res/cir/maps2/mapprov.asp?map=35035&lang=e#descrip

Consisting of that part of the City of Hamilton described as follows: commencing at the intersection of James Mountain Road with the Niagara Escarpment; thence generally westerly along said escarpment to the electric power transmission line situated westerly of Chateau Court; thence northerly along said transmission line to Highway No. 403; thence generally northeasterly along said highway to the Desjardins Canal; thence easterly along said canal and continuing due east in Hamilton Harbour to the northerly production of Queen Street North; thence northerly in a straight line along said production to the northerly limit of said city; thence generally northeasterly, southeasterly and northeasterly along said limit to the northerly production of Ottawa Street North; thence southerly along said production and Ottawa Street North to Burlington Street East; thence easterly along said street to Kenilworth Avenue North; thence southerly along said avenue and Kenilworth Avenue South to Lawrence Road; thence westerly along said road to the southerly production of Keswick Court; thence southerly along said production to the Niagara Escarpment; thence generally westerly along said escarpment to the point of commencement.

Members of Parliament

It has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons by New Democrat David Christopherson since the 2004 federal election.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Hamilton Centre Riding created from Hamilton East, Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot
38th	2004–2006		David Christopherson	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–present

Election results

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	18,719	45.56	-14.69	$52,665.42
	Liberal	Anne Tennier	13,718	33.39	+20.29	$65,231.14
	Conservative	Yonatan Rozenszajn	6,018	14.65	-8.81	$38,675.56
	Green	Ute Schmid-Jones	1,778	4.33	+3.83	$5,331.63
	Marijuana	Michael James Baldasaro	348	0.85	–	–
	Libertarian	Rob Young	316	0.77	–	$4,236.22
	Independent	Maria Anastasiou	186	0.45	–	$829.76
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,083	100.00		$201,952.89
Total rejected ballots			269	0.65
Turnout			41,352	60.73
Eligible voters			68,087
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-17.49
Source: Elections Canada

2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	20,741	60.25
	Conservative	8,076	23.46
	Liberal	4,509	13.10
	Others	925	2.69
	Green	172	0.50

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	23,849	57.0	+7.7	–
	Conservative	James Byron	11,020	26.4	+4.1	–
	Liberal	Anne Tennier	5,912	14.1	-3.5	–
	Marijuana	Michael Baldasaro	780	1.9	n/a	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	252	0.6	+0.3	–
Total valid votes			41,813	100.0	–
Total rejected ballots			320	0.8	–
Turnout			42,133	54.7	–
Eligible voters			77,077	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	20,010	49.3	-2.0	$66,259
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	9,051	22.3	+2.0	$24,629
	Liberal	Helen Wilson	7,164	17.6	-5.9	$30,226
	Green	John Livingstone	3,625	8.9	+4.2	$5,353
	Libertarian	Anthony Giles	528	1.3	n/a	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	126	0.3	n/a
	Communist	Ryan Sparrow	125	0.3	n/a	$373
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,850	100.0	$85,900

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	24,503	51.3	+5.5
	Liberal	Javid Mirza	11,224	23.5	-10.2
	Conservative	Elliot L. Hill	9,969	20.3	+5.7
	Green	John Livingstone	2,022	4.2	+1.0
	Canadian Action	Tony Des Lauriers	332	0.7	n/a
Total valid votes			47,777	100.0
Total rejected ballots			279
Turnout			48,056	59.2

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	20,321	45.8
	Liberal	Stan Keyes	14,948	33.7
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	6,714	15.1
	Green	Anne Marie Pavlov	1,422	3.2
	Christian Heritage	Stephen Downey	520	1.2
	Independent	Michael James Baldasaro	345	0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Jamile Ghaddar	91	0.2
Total valid votes			44,361	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "Hamilton Centre (federal electoral district) (Code 35031) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada