Timmins—James Bay

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Timmins—James Bay is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2001 was 84,001.

The district includes the extreme eastern part of the District of Kenora, all of the District of Cochrane except for the central western part, and a small part south of Timmins, and all of the District of Timiskaming except for the extreme southeastern part.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Federal electoral district 2.1 Members of Parliament 3 Provincial electoral district 3.1 Members of Provincial Parliament 4 Federal election results 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Geography

Timmins—James Bay consists of

• the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn from the northeast corner of the most northerly point of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay (Albany River) due north to Hudson Bay;
• the Territorial District of Cochrane, excluding the part bounded by a line drawn from the western limit of the territorial district east along the northern limits of the townships of Boyce, Boyce, Shuel, Mulloy, Fintry, Auden, Rogers, Fushimi, Bannerman, Ritchie, Mulvey, Goldwin, Sweet, Hillmer, McKnight, Boyle, Mowbray, Howells, Sheldon, Pinard and Mewhinney, south along the eastern boundaries of the townships of Mewhinney, Bourassa, Tolmie, Menapia, Beniah, Colquhoun and Calder, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Ottaway, south along the western boundaries of the townships of Ottaway, Beck, Lucas and Prosser, and west along the southern boundaries of the townships of Carnegie, Reid, Thorburn, Moberly, Aitken, Poulett, Watson and Lisgar, to the southwestern limit of the territorial district;
• the part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming bounded by a line drawn from the northeast corner of the Township of Harris, west along the northern boundaries of the townships of Harris, Dymond, Hudson, Lundy, Auld and Speight, and south along the western boundaries of the townships of Speight, Van Nostrand and Leo to the southern limit of the territorial district.

[edit] Federal electoral district

Timmins—James Bay was created in 1996 from parts of Cochrane—Superior and Timiskaming—Cochrane ridings.

It consisted initially of:

• the part of the Territorial District of Cochrane lying west and north of a line drawn from the southeast corner of the City of Timmins north and west along the east and north limits of the city north along the east boundaries of the Townships of Prosser, Lucas, Beck and Ottaway, west and north al;ong the south and west boundary of the Township of Clute, north along the east boundary of the Township of Colquhoun, and east along the south boundaries of the Townships of Marven, Thorning, Potter, Sangster, Bragg, Newman, Tomlinson, Hurtubise and St. Laurent,
• the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn north from the most northerly northeast corner of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay to Hudson Bay.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

[edit] Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

1. Réginald Bélair, Liberal (1997-2004)
2. Charlie Angus, New Democrat (2004-present)

[edit] Provincial electoral district

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

[edit] Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

1. Gilles Bisson, New Democrat (1999-present)

[edit] Federal election results

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Charlie Angus	19,150	50.5	+9.1
	Liberal	Robert Riopelle	13,028	34.3	-5.3
	Conservative	Ken Graham	5,164	13.6	-3.1
	Green	Sahaja Freed	610	1.6	-0.7
Total

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Charlie Angus	14,138	41.4	+19.7
	Liberal	Raymond Chénier	13,525	39.6	-14.9
	Conservative	Andrew Van Oosten	5,682	16.7	-6.2
	Green	Marsha Gail Kriss	767	2.3	+2.3
Total			34,112

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Réginald Bélair	16,335
	New Democrat	Len Wood	9,385
	Canadian Alliance	James Gibb	3,356
	Progressive Conservative	Daniel Clark	1,053

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Réginald Bélair	16,829
	New Democrat	Cid Samson	11,945
	Reform	Donna Ferolie	2,464
	Progressive Conservative	Jodi MacDonald	2,251

[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Federal Ridings in Northern Ontario
Liberal	Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | Kenora | Nickel Belt | Nipissing—Timiskaming | Sudbury | Thunder Bay—Rainy River
New Democratic	Sault Ste. Marie | Timmins—James Bay
Conservative	Parry Sound—Muskoka
Independent	Thunder Bay—Superior North*
* Thunder Bay—Superior North MP Joe Comuzzi was ousted from the Liberal Party and now sits as an independent.

Federal Ridings in Ontario
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Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale | Burlington | Halton | Hamilton Centre | Hamilton East—Stoney Creek | Hamilton Mountain | Niagara Falls | Niagara West—Glanbrook | Oakville | St. Catharines | Welland
Midwestern Ontario	Brant | Cambridge | Guelph | Haldimand—Norfolk | Huron—Bruce | Kitchener Centre | Kitchener—Conestoga | Kitchener—Waterloo | Oxford | Perth—Wellington | Wellington—Halton Hills
Northern Ontario	Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | Kenora | Nickel Belt | Nipissing—Timiskaming | Parry Sound—Muskoka | Sault Ste. Marie | Sudbury | Thunder Bay—Rainy River | Thunder Bay—Superior North | Timmins—James Bay
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