Kitchener—Waterloo (electoral district)

Kitchener—Waterloo
Ontario electoral district
	Kitchener—Waterloo in relation to southern Ontario ridings (2003)
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1996
District abolished	2013
First contested	1997
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	130,162
Electors (2011)	97,511
Area (km²)	84.95
Census division(s)	Waterloo
Census subdivision(s)	Waterloo, Kitchener

Kitchener—Waterloo was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.

Geography

The district consisted of the City of Waterloo and the northern part of the City of Kitchener.

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from part of Waterloo riding.

It consisted initially of the City of Waterloo and the part of the City of Kitchener lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Lawrence Avenue and Victoria Street.

In 2003, the Kitchener part of the riding was redefined to be the part of the city lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Fischer Hallman Road and the Canadian National Railway situated north of Shadeland Crescent.

Following the 2011 Census and a Canadian Parliament decision to increase the number of Federal electoral districts from 308 to 338, Elections Canada conducted a redistribution exercise beginning in 2012 that was concluded on October 1, 2013. As a result of the redistribution exercise, the Kitchener-Waterloo district was abolished into Waterloo, Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Conestoga districts .^[2]

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Kitchener—Waterloo Riding created from Waterloo
36th	1997–2000	Andrew Telegdi	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011	Peter Braid	Conservative
41st	2011–2015	Peter Braid	Conservative
Riding dissolved into Waterloo, Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Conestoga

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Peter Braid	27,039	40.85	+4.79	$90,641.15
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	24,895	37.62	+1.59	–
	New Democratic	Bill Brown	10,606	16.03	+1.31	$21,334.44
	Green	Cathy MacLellan	3,158	4.77	-7.33	–
	Pirate	Steven Bradley Scott	245	0.37	–	–
	Independent	Richard Walsh-Bowers	174	0.26	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Julian Ichim	66	0.10	–	none listed
Total valid votes			66,183	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			216	0.33	-0.05
Turnout			66,399	70.17	+7.86
Eligible voters			94,624	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Peter Braid	21,830	36.06	+7.75	$93,455
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	21,813	36.03	-10.82	$71,443
	New Democratic	Cindy Jacobsen	8,915	14.72	-3.16	$34,713
	Green	Cathy MacLellan	7,326	12.10	+5.64	$19,781
	Libertarian	Jason Cousineau	333	0.55	–	$0
	Independent	Mark Corbiere	107	0.17	–
	Communist	Ramon Portillo	105	0.17	–	$373
	Canadian Action	Kyle Huntingdon	105	0.17	–	$203
Total valid votes/Expense limit			60,534	100.00	$95,412
Total rejected ballots			229	0.38	–
Turnout			60,763	62.31	-8.08

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	31,136	46.85	-1.2
	Conservative	Ajmer Mandur	18,817	28.31	-1.1
	New Democratic	Edwin Laryea	11,889	17.88	+1.9
	Green	Pauline Richards	4,298	6.46	+0.9
	Independent	Ciprian Mihalcea	173	0.26	-0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Julian Ichim	144	0.21
Total valid votes			66,457	100.0
Total rejected ballots			240	0.38
Turnout			66,697	70.39

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	28,015	48.1	-2.2
	Conservative	Steve Strauss	17,155	29.5	-9.5
	New Democratic	Edwin Laryea	9,267	15.9	+7.8
	Green	Pauline Richards	3,277	5.6	+4.1
	Christian Heritage	Frank Ellis	379	0.7
	Independent	Ciprian Mihalcea	124	0.2
Total valid votes			58,217	100.0

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	27,130	50.3	+2.6
	Alliance	Joshua Doig	12,406	23.0	+3.1
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Bourke	8,601	16.0	-6.1
	New Democratic	Richard Walsh-Bowers	4,397	8.2	-0.8
	Green	Jack MacAulay	809	1.5
	Canadian Action	Robert E. Cormier	273	0.5	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Christine Nugent	164	0.3	0.0
	Independent	Frank Ellis	105	0.2
Total valid votes			53,885	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Andrew Telegdi	25,111	47.7
	Progressive Conservative	Lynne Woolstencroft	11,613	22.1
	Reform	Mike Connolly	10,502	20.0
	New Democratic	Ted Martin	4,725	9.0
	Independent	Steve King	265	0.5
	Canadian Action	Monte Dennis	260	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Helmut Braun	153	0.3
Total valid votes			52,629	100.0

References

"Kitchener—Waterloo (electoral district) (Code 35039) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 results from Elections Canada
Elections Canada electoral districts database (Kitchener—Waterloo)
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

^ ^a ^b Statistics Canada: 2011
^ Elections Canada. "Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario". Retrieved 2013-07-31.

External links

[ReferenceA-1] Statistics Canada: 2011

[2] Elections Canada. "Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario". Retrieved 2013-07-31.

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