Kitchener South—Hespeler

Kitchener South—Hespeler (French: Kitchener-Sud—Hespeler) is a federal electoral district in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada, which is represented for the first time in the House of Commons of Canada following the 2015 election.

History

Kitchener South—Hespeler was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts as a result of a redistribution process conducted by Elections Canada from 2012 to 2013.^[2]

Geography

Following the 2011 Census and a Canadian Parliament decision to increase the number of Federal electoral districts from 308 to 338, Elections Canada conducted a redistribution process that began with the establishment of Electoral Boundaries Commissions for each province in 2012. As a result of the work of the Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario, which was concluded in July 2013, the Kitchener South—Hespeler district was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts.^[2]

The new Kitchener South—Hespeler electoral district includes:

The portion of the City of Cambridge lying northerly of Ontario Highway 401
The portion of the City of Kitchener lying:
- Southerly of the Conestoga Parkway
- Easterly of Fischer-Hallman Road
- Westerly of Ontario Highway 8 between the Conestoga Parkway and Fairway Road
- Westerly of the border between the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener between Fairway Road and Ontario Highway 401

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Kitchener South—Hespeler Riding created from Cambridge, Kitchener Centre, and Kitchener—Conestoga
42nd	2015–Present		Marwan Tabbara	Liberal

Electoral history

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marwan Tabbara	20,215	42.3	+23.38	–
	Conservative	Marian Gagné	17,544	36.7	-14.49	–
	New Democratic	Lorne Bruce	7,440	15.6	-10.16	–
	Green	David Weber	1,767	3.7	-0.3	–
	Libertarian	Nathan Lajeunesse	772	1.6	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Elaine Baetz	91	0.2	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,829	100.0		$205,534.07
Total rejected ballots			259	0.5	–
Turnout			48,088	66.4	–
Eligible voters			72,359
	Liberal notional gain from Conservative		Swing		+18.93%
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	20,304	51.19
	New Democratic	10,219	25.76
	Liberal	7,506	18.92
	Green	1,587	4.00
	Others	47	0.12

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Federal ridings in Midwestern Ontario

Conservative	Brantford—Brant Haldimand—Norfolk Huron—Bruce Kitchener—Conestoga Oxford Perth—Wellington Wellington—Halton Hills

Liberal	Cambridge Guelph Kitchener Centre Kitchener South—Hespeler Waterloo

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See also: Provincial ridings in Ontario

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