Whitby—Oshawa (provincial electoral district)

The riding was created in 2003 and consists of 68 percent of the Whitby—Ajax district, 20 percent of the Oshawa district and three percent of the Durham.^[1] The provincial electoral district was created from the same ridings in 2007.

It consists of the Town of Whitby and northwestern section of the City of Oshawa (specifically, the portion of the city lying north and west of a line drawn from the western city limit east along King Street West, north along the Oshawa Creek, east along Rossland Road West, north along Simcoe Street North, and east along Winchester Road East to the eastern city limit).

Demographics

Population: 135,893
Number of electors on list: 94,938
Ethnic Groups: 90.4% White, 0.0% Black, 2.4% South Asian, 1.3% Chinese, 2.9% Other
Languages: 84.0% English, 11.3% Non-official, 2.0% French
Religion: 41.5% Protestant, 33.3% Catholic, 17.2% No affiliation, 8.0% Other denominations
Average household income: $80 161

Members of Provincial Parliament

Whitby—Oshawa
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Whitby—Ajax, Oshawa and Durham
39th	2007 − 2011		Christine Elliott	Progressive Conservative
40th	2011 − 2014
41st	2014 − Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Preliminary results — Not yet official
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Christine Elliott	23,985	40.66	-7.51
	Liberal	Ajay Krishnan	18,488	31.34	-2.06
	New Democratic	Ryan Kelly	13,662	23.16	+7.70
	Green	Stacey Leadbetter	2,534	4.30	+2.06
	Freedom	Douglas Thom	326	0.55	+0.24
Total valid votes			58,995	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.72
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Christine Elliott	24,499	48.17	+4.17
	Liberal	Elizabeth Roy	16,988	33.40	-2.59
	New Democratic	Maret Sadem-Thompson	7,865	15.46	+4.34
	Green	Bradley Gibson	1,139	2.24	-5.02
	Special Needs	Dan King	211	0.41
	Freedom	Douglas Thom	160	0.31	+0.02
Total valid votes			50,862	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			154	0.30
Turnout			51,016	49.69
Eligible voters			102,672
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+3.38
Source(s) "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Whitby—Oshawa" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2014.

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Christine Elliott	22,687	44.00
	Liberal	Laura Hammer	18,560	35.99
	New Democratic	Nigel Moses	5,733	11.12
	Green	Doug Anderson	3,745	7.26
	Libertarian	Marty Gobin	411	0.80
	Family Coalition	Dale Chilvers	277	0.54
	Freedom	Bill Frampton	152	0.29
Total valid votes			51,565	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	33,461	65.9
	Mixed member proportional	17,306	34.1
Total		51,767	100.0

Notes

↑ "Canada Votes 2006: Whitby-Oshawa". CBC. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
↑ "General Election Results by District, 100 Whitby—Oshawa". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

Sources

Provincial ridings in Ontario

Northern	Algoma—Manitoulin Kenora—Rainy River Nickel Belt Nipissing Parry Sound—Muskoka Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay—Atikokan Thunder Bay—Superior North Timiskaming—Cochrane Timmins—James Bay

Eastern	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Kingston and the Islands Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Leeds—Grenville Prince Edward—Hastings Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

Central	Barrie Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound Dufferin—Caledon Durham Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Newmarket—Aurora Northumberland—Quinte West Peterborough Simcoe—Grey Simcoe North York—Simcoe

Midwestern	Brant Cambridge Guelph Haldimand—Norfolk Huron—Bruce Kitchener Centre Kitchener—Conestoga Kitchener—Waterloo Oxford Perth—Wellington Wellington—Halton Hills

Southwestern	Chatham-Kent—Essex Elgin—Middlesex—London Essex Lambton—Kent—Middlesex London—Fanshawe London North Centre London West Sarnia—Lambton Windsor—Tecumseh Windsor West

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville	Bramalea—Gore—Malton Brampton—Springdale Brampton West Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga South Mississauga—Streetsville Oakville

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale Burlington Halton Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Niagara Falls Niagara West—Glanbrook St. Catharines Welland

Ottawa	Carleton—Mississippi Mills Nepean—Carleton Ottawa Centre Ottawa—Orléans Ottawa South Ottawa—Vanier Ottawa West—Nepean

South Durham, York	Ajax—Pickering Markham—Unionville Oak Ridges—Markham Oshawa Pickering—Scarborough East Richmond Hill Thornhill Vaughan Whitby—Oshawa

Toronto	Beaches—East York Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North Parkdale—High Park Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough Southwest St. Paul's Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Trinity—Spadina Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston York West

See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario

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