Timmins—James Bay

Ontario electoral district

Timmins—James Bay in relation to other northern Ontario electoral districts

Federal electoral district

Legislature

House of Commons

Charlie Angus
New Democratic

District created

1996

First contested

1997

Last contested

2011

District webpage

profile, map

Demographics

Population (2011)^[1]

81,957

Electors (2011)

59,876

Area (km²)^[2]

246,275.67

Pop. density (per km²)

0.33

Census divisions

Cochrane District, Timiskaming District

Census subdivisions

Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Black River-Matheson, Moosonee, Marten Falls, Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, Moose Factory

For the provincial electoral district, see Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district).

Timmins—James Bay is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. 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.

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.

History

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 along 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.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Timmins—James Bay Riding created from Cochrane—Superior and Timiskaming—Cochrane
36th	1997 − 2000	Réginald Bélair	Liberal
37th	2000 − 2004	Réginald Bélair	Liberal
38th	2004 − 2006	Charlie Angus	New Democratic
39th	2006 − 2008
40th	2008 − 2011
41st	2011 − Present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	16,738	50.4	-6.1	–
	Conservative	Bill Greenberg	10,526	31.7	+13.5	–
	Liberal	Marilyn Wood	5,230	15.7	-6.5	–
	Green	Lisa Bennett	724	2.2	-0.9	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,218	100.0
Total rejected ballots			184	0.6	+0.1
Turnout			33,402	56.5	+5.5
Eligible voters			59,136	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	17,188	56.5	+6.0	$63,948
	Liberal	Paul Taillefer	6,740	22.2	-12.1	$ 31,909
	Conservative	Bill Greenberg	5,536	18.2	+4.6	$29,651
	Green	Larry Verner	938	3.1	+1.5	$133
Total valid votes/Expense limit			30,402	100.0	$97,746
Total rejected ballots			133	0.4
Turnout			30,535	51.0

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	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
valid votes			37,952	100.0
	NDP hold		Swing	+7.2

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, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	14,138	41.4	+19.7
	Liberal	Ray Chénier	13,525	39.6	-14.9
	Conservative	Andrew Van Oosten	5,682	16.7	-6.2
	Green	Marsha Gail Kriss	767	2.3
Total valid votes				34,112	100.0

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	54.2	+4.0
	New Democratic	Len Wood	9,385	31.1	-4.5
	Alliance	James Gibb	3,356	11.1	+3.8
	Progressive Conservative	Daniel Clark	1,053	3.5	-3.2
Total valid votes			30,129	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Réginald Bélair	16,829	50.3
	New Democratic	Cid Samson	11,945	35.7
	Reform	Donna Ferolie	2,464	7.4
	Progressive Conservative	Jodi MacDonald	2,251	6.7
Total valid votes			33,489	100.0

References

"(Code 35092) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.

Notes

↑ Stastistics Canada: 2012
↑ Stastistics Canada: 2012

External links

Federal ridings in Northern Ontario

New Democratic	Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing Nickel Belt Sudbury Thunder Bay—Rainy River Timmins—James Bay

Conservative	Kenora Nipissing—Timiskaming Parry Sound—Muskoka Sault Ste. Marie

Green	Thunder Bay—Superior North*

* MP Bruce Hyer was elected as a New Democrat, but quit the party on April 23, 2012. He joined the Green Party on December 13, 2013.

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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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