London—Fanshawe

Specifically, it consists of the part of the city lying east and north of a line drawn from the northern limit of the city south along Highbury Avenue North, west along the Thames River (South Branch), south along the Canadian National Railway, west along Commissioners Road East, south along Wharncliffe Road South, east along Southdale Road East, south along White Oak Road, east along Exeter Road, north along Meg Drive, west along Jalna Boulevard, north along Ernest Avenue, east along Bradley Avenue, north along Highbury Avenue South, east along Arran Place and Bradley Avenue to the eastern limit of the city.

History

The riding was created in 1996 from parts of London East and London—Middlesex. From 1997 until 2005 it was represented by Liberal/Independent Member of Parliament Pat O'Brien.

It consisted initially of the part of the City of London lying east and north of a line drawn from the northern limit of the city south along Highbury Avenue and Highway 126, west along the Thames River, south along the Canadian National Railway tracks, west along Commissioners Road East, south along Wharncliffe Road South, east along Southdale Road East, south along White Oak Road, east along Exeter Road, north along Meg Drive, west along Jalna Boulevard, north along Ernest Avenue, east along Bradley Avenue, north along the Highbury Avenue, east along Arran Place and Bradley Avenue to the eastern limit of the city.

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

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons:

Parliament	Years		Party
36th	1997–2000	Pat O'Brien	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2005
38th	2005–2006		Independent
39th	2006–2008	Irene Mathyssen	New Democratic
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Irene Mathyssen of the New Democratic Party who was first elected in the 2006 election. She replaced Pat O'Brien, an Independent and former Liberal who did not stand for reelection. Mathyssen was re-elected in the 2008 Canadian federal election, the only incumbent MP in the region to increase both the popular vote count and vote percentage. In the 2011 Canadian federal election, Mathyssen was elected for her third term and was the only MP in the City elected by a majority of the eligible voters who cast a ballot, with 50.9% of the vote.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Irene Mathyssen	21,689	50.89	+7.83	-
	Conservative	Jim Chahbar	14,294	33.55	+2.71	-
	Liberal	Roger Caranci	4,893	11.48	-7.46	-
	Green	Matthew Peloza	1,202	2.82	-3.65	-
	Christian Heritage	G.J. Rancourt	535	1.26	+0.59	-
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,613	100.00
Total rejected ballots			236	0.55	+0.08
Turnout			42,849	57.64	+2.53
Eligible voters			74,338

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Irene Mathyssen	17,672	43.06	+8.56	$72,219
	Conservative	Mary Lou Ambrogio	12,659	30.84	+1.82	$73,601
	Liberal	Jacquie Gauthier	7,774	18.94	-13.70	$62,713
	Green	Daniel O'Neail	2,656	6.47	+2.60
	Christian Heritage	Leonard Vanderhoeven	276	0.67		$568
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,037	100.00		$82,792
Rejected ballots			194	0.47	+.0.01
Turnout			41,231	55.11	-7.12

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Irene Mathyssen	16,067	34.50	+4.1
	Liberal	Glen Pearson	15,199	32.64	-5.5
	Conservative	Dan Mailer	13,495	28.98	+2.7
	Green	David McLaughlin	1,803	3.87	-0.1
Total valid votes			46,564	100.00
Rejected ballots			215	0.46
Turnout			46,779	62.23

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pat O'Brien	15,664	38.1	-16.7
	New Democrat	Irene Mathyssen	12,511	30.4	+19.0
	Conservative	John Mazzilli	10,811	26.3	-7.5
	Green	Ed Moore	1,634	4.0
	Progressive Canadian	Derrall Bellaire	453	1.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Cameron Switzer	65	0.2
Total valid votes			41,138	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	Pat O'Brien	19,677	54.8	+3.6
	Canadian Alliance	Robert Vaughan	7,998	22.3	+5.2
	Progressive Conservative	Derrall Bellaire	4,119	11.5	-2.3
	New Democrat	Andrew Sadler	4,107	11.4	-5.4
Total valid votes			35,901	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pat O'Brien	20,497	51.2
	Reform	Scott Bowman	6,838	17.1
	New Democrat	Irene Mathyssen	6,754	16.9
	Progressive Conservative	Daniel Thrasher	5,499	13.7
	Green	Heidi Strasser	442	1.1
Total valid votes			40,030	100.0

Sources

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