Hamilton Mountain

Hamilton Mountain is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. The riding is located in the Hamilton, Ontario region.

The socio-economic composition of the Hamilton Mountain is diverse, having low-income public housing residents as well as million dollar estates, highly-paid unionized workers and small-wage unskilled workers, and well-established families and recent immigrants.

This diversity makes Hamilton Mountain a swing riding with expected support for all three main Canadian political parties where many elections are virtually two- or three-way ties. For instance, in 1988 less than a hundred votes separated the first and second place finishers and in the 2004 election only three thousand votes separated the first and third place finishers.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also
6 Sources

Geography

In 2003, the riding was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn west from the Niagara Escarpment along Red Hill Creek, south along Mountain Brow Boulevard, Arbour Road and Glover Road, west along the hydroelectric transmission line situated south of Rymal Road East, north along Glancaster Road, east along Garner Road East, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Paradise Road, east along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along West 5th Street, northeast along James Mountain Road, and east and south along the Niagara Escarpment to the point of commencement.

History

The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot, Hamilton South, Hamilton West, Stoney Creek, and Wentworth ridings.

It consisted initially of:

the part of the City of Hamilton east of a line drawn west along Mud Street, north along Mountain Brow Boulevard, and northwest along the brow of the Mountain; and
the part of the Township of Glanford in the County of Wentworth lying north of County Suburban Road No. 22.

In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Hamilton lying south of the brow of the Mountain bounded on the east by Red Hill Creek, on the west by the west limit of the city, and on the south by Mohawk Road, Limeridge Road, and Mountain Brow Boulevard.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Hamilton lying south of the brow of the Mountain bounded by a line drawn from Mountain Brow Boulevard, west along Limeridge Road to St. Jerome School, west to Garth Street, south along Garth Street, west along the proposed Mountain Freeway.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Hamilton south of a line drawn north from the western city limit near Lisajane Court, east along Stone Church Road, north along Garth Street, east along Redhill Creek Expressway, north along West 5 Street, then east along the brow of the Niagara Escarpment to the eastern city limit.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Hamilton South and Hamilton West prior to 1966
28th	1968–1972	Gordon J. Sullivan	Liberal
29th	1972–1974	Duncan Beattie	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979	Gus MacFarlane	Liberal
31st	1979–1980	Duncan Beattie	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984	Ian Deans	New Democratic
33rd	1984–1986	Ian Deans	New Democratic
33rd	1987–1988	Marion Dewar	New Democratic
34th	1988–1993	Beth Phinney	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Chris Charlton	New Democratic
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Chris Charlton	25,595	47.2	+3.5
	Conservative	Terry Anderson	17,936	33.1	+2.4
	Liberal	Marie Bountrogianni	8,787	16.2	-4
	Green	Stephen Brotherson	1,505	2.8	-2.7
	Christian Heritage	Jim Enos	270	0.5	-
	Independent	Henryk Adamiec	171	0.3	-
Total valid votes			54,264	100.0
Total rejected ballots			261	0.5	+0.4
Turnout			54,525	61.8
Eligible voters			88,196

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Chris Charlton	22,796	43.7	+6.3	$79,793
	Conservative	Terry Anderson	16,010	30.7	+3.5	$58,663
	Liberal	Tyler Banham	10,531	20.2	-11.7	$78,883
	Green	Stephen Brotherston	2,884	5.5	+2.9	$7,683
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,221	100.0		$91,117
Total rejected ballots			293	0.1
Turnout			52,514

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Chris Charlton	21,869	37.3	+4.4
	Liberal	Bill Kelly	18,697	31.9	-2.9
	Conservative	Don Graves	15,915	27.2	-2.1
	Green	Susan Wadsworth	1,510	2.6	0.0
	Christian Heritage	Stephen Downey	458	0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Paul Lane	131	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			58,580	100.0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	18,548	34.8	-16.1
	New Democrat	Chris Charlton	17,552	32.9	+23.0
	Conservative	Tom Jackson	15,590	29.3	-9.3
	Green	Jo Pavlov	1,378	2.6
	Marxist–Leninist	Paul Lane	214	0.4	-0.2
Total valid votes			53,282	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	22,536	50.9	+5.1
	Canadian Alliance	Mike Scott	9,621	21.7	+4.1
	Progressive Conservative	John Smith	7,467	16.9	-2.4
	New Democrat	James Stephenson	4,387	9.9	-6.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Rolf Gerstenberger	259	0.6	+0.3
Total valid votes			44,270	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	21,128	45.8	-11.3
	Progressive Conservative	John Smith	8,877	19.2	+7.8
	Reform	Richard F. Gaasenbeek	8,154	17.7	-3.9
	New Democrat	Chris Charlton	7,440	16.1	8.4
	Canadian Action	Christopher M. Patty	374	0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Iqbal Sumbal	146	0.3
Total valid votes			46,119	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	27,218	57.1	+24.2
	Reform	Craig Chandler	10,297	21.6
	Progressive Conservative	Tamra Mann	5,474	11.5	-19.0
	New Democrat	Andrew MacKenzie	3,670	7.7	-25.1
	National	Gunter Hinz	673	1.4
	Natural Law	Isabel Millman	331	0.7
Total valid votes			47,663	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	16,934	32.9	-5.9
	New Democrat	Marion Dewar	16,861	32.8	-10.6
	Progressive Conservative	Grant Darby	15,712	30.5	+14.6
	Christian Heritage	Charles Eleveld	1,799	3.5
	Commonwealth	Ed Gardner	87	0.2
	Not affiliated	Rolf Gerstenberger	70	0.1
Total valid votes			51,463	100.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on 20 July 1987 Resignation of Ian Deans, 31 August 1986
	New Democrat	Marion Dewar	14,435	43.4	-5.8
	Liberal	Beth Phinney	12,903	38.8	+20.6
	Progressive Conservative	Dan MacDonald	5,301	15.9	-16.5
	Rhino	Martin O'Hanlon	316	0.9
	Independent	John Turmel	166	0.5
	Social Credit	Andrew Varady	149	0.4
Total valid votes			33,270	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Ian Deans	25,789	49.2	+13.7
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan M. Beattie	17,004	32.4	-0.1
	Liberal	Jerry McCullough	9,514	18.1	-13.7
	Commonwealth	Mike McGee	133	0.3
Total valid votes			52,440	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Ian Deans	17,700	35.5	+11.5
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan M. Beattie	16,208	32.5	-9.3
	Liberal	Gus MacFarlane	15,873	31.8	-2.1
	Communist	Elizabeth Rowley	65	0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Gerard Kimmons	57	0.1	0.0
Total valid votes			49,903	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan M. Beattie	21,348	align=right	align=right\|41.2
	Liberal	Gus MacFarlane	17,334	33.9	-10.0
	New Democrat	Andy Asselin	12,273	24.0	+3.7
	Communist	Elizabeth Rowley	102	0.2	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Gerard Kimmons	68	0.1	0.0
Total valid votes			51,125	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gus MacFarlane	22,253	43.9	+10.9
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan M. Beattie	17,922	35.3	-5.6
	New Democrat	Don Gray	10,304	20.3	-5.4
	Communist	Nancy McDonald	170	0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Dawn Carroll	69	0.1
Total valid votes			50,718	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan M. Beattie	21,713	41.0	+16.5
	Liberal	Harvey Lanctot	17,477	33.0	-8.2
	New Democrat	Bill Nichols	13,604	25.7	-8.7
	Social Credit	Roger Hamelin	183	0.3
Total valid votes			52,977	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Gordon J. Sullivan	17,794	41.2
	New Democrat	William D. Howe	14,838	34.3
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan Beattie	10,583	24.5
Total valid votes			43,215	100.0

Sources

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