Brampton Centre

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For the defunct provincial electoral district, see Brampton Centre (provincial electoral district)

Brampton Centre was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Brampton riding.

It consisted of the part of the City of Brampton bounded by a line drawn from the northwestern city limit, southeast along Dixie Road, southwest along the southeastern city limit, northwest along Kennedy Road, southwest along Steeles Avenue, northwest along Main Street, southwest along Highway No. 7, northwest along McLaughlin Road, northeast along the northwestern city limit to the point of commencement.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Brampton West and Brampton—Springdale ridings.

[edit] Federal election results

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Sarkis Assadourian	18,615
	Reform	Don Crawford	10,817
	Progressive Conservative	Sam Hundal	5,621
	New Democrat	Paul Ferreira	2,923
	Marxist-Leninist	André Vachon	127

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	ASSADOURIAN, Sarkis	18,365
	Progressive Conservative	Beryl Ford	9,229
	Canadian Alliance	Prabhat Kapur]	6,247
	New Democrat	Sue Slean	1,795
	Green	Andrew K. Roy	628