Thunder Bay—Atikokan (provincial electoral district)

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Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Ontario electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP		Bill Mauro Liberal
District created	1999
First contested	1999
Last contested	2007
Demographics
Population (2001)	76,009
Electors (2007)	55,007
Area (km²)	24,660
Pop. density (per km²)	3.1
Census divisions
Census subdivisions

For the former federal electoral district, see Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Thunder Bay—Atikokan is a provincial electoral district in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

The electoral district was created from Port Arthur, Fort William, Lake Nipigon and Rainy River in 1999 when Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level.

In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts, including Thunder Bay—Atikokan, are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.^[1]

[edit] Election results

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	10,913	37.7
	New Democrat	John Rafferty	10,877	37.5
	Progressive Conservative	Rebecca Johnson	5,914	20.4
	Green	Russ Aegard	1,271	4.4

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	19153	67.9%
	Mixed member proportional	9056	32.1%

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	17735	58.25	-5.78
	New Democrat	John Rafferty	6582	21.62	4.86
	Progressive Conservative	Brian McKinnon	5365	17.62	-1.59
	Green	Kristin Boyer	762	2.5

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lyn McLeod	20268	64.03
	Progressive Conservative	John Henderson	6081	19.21
	New Democrat	Jack Drewes	5304	16.76

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”

[edit] External links

• Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results

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