Oshawa (electoral district)

Oshawa (formerly known as Oshawa—Whitby) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

It consists of the southern part of the City of Oshawa south of Taunton Road.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2011 Census; 2013 representation^[3]^[4]

Ethnic groups: 89.8% White, 2.9% Black, 2.1% Aboriginal, 1.5% South Asian
Languages: 88.5% English, 2.5% French, 1.3% Polish
Religions: 67.9% Christian (28.8% Catholic, 11.3% United Church, 7.7% Anglican, 2.8% Pentecostal, 2.7% Baptist, 2.5% Presbyterian, 1.2% Christian Orthodox, 11.1% Other), 1.0% Muslim, 29.4% No religion
Median income (2010): $30,773
Average income (2010): $37,231

History

Geography

It was created as "Oshawa" riding in 1966 from parts of Ontario riding.

It consisted initially of the City of Oshawa, the Town of Whitby and the part of the Township of Whitby between the west limit of the City of Oshawa and the east limit of the Town of Whitby and lying south of the road allowance between Concessions 2 and 3. The name of the electoral district was changed in 1967 to "Oshawa—Whitby".

In 1976, Oshawa—Whitby riding was abolished, and a new "Oshawa" riding was created from parts of Durham, Ontario and Oshawa—Whitby ridings. It consisted of the City of Oshawa. In 1987, it was redefined to exclude the part of the city north of Rossland Road and the allowance for road in front of lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, Concession 3.

In 1996, it was defined as consisting of the part of the city to the south of a line drawn from west to east along Taunton Road, south along Ritson Road North, east along Rossland Road East, south along Harmony Road North and east along King Street East.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above, and Whitby-Oshawa was drawn out of Durham and Whitby—Ajax.

Oshawa lost territory to Durham, and gained territory from Whitby—Oshawa during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Politics

In recent years, the district has become a polarized two-way split between the Conservative Party of Canada and New Democratic Party. The Liberal Party of Canada has only managed distant third place finishes in the past two elections.

MP Colin Carrie was re-elected as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the 2011 federal election. Canadian Autoworkers Local 222 President Chris Buckley was the nominated New Democratic Party candidate and Gail Bates was the Green candidate. The Liberal Party candidate was James Morton.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Oshawa—Whitby Riding created from Ontario
28th	1968–1972	Ed Broadbent	New Democratic
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Oshawa
31st	1979–1980	Ed Broadbent	New Democratic
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1990
34th	1990–1993	Michael Breaugh
35th	1993–1997	Ivan Grose	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006	Colin Carrie	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	23,162	38.17	-12.96	–
	New Democratic	Mary Fowler	19,339	31.87	-5.23	–
	Liberal	Tito-Dante Marimpietri	16,588	27.33	+19.67	–
	Green	Michael Dempsey	1,522	2.51	-1.04	–
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	75	0.12	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			60,686	100.00		$239,340.16
Total rejected ballots			228	0.37	–
Turnout			60,914	63.74	–
Eligible voters			95,561
	Conservative hold		Swing		-3.86
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[7]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	26,837	51.13
	New Democratic	19,474	37.10
	Liberal	4,022	7.66
	Green	1,863	3.55
	Others	294	0.56

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	26,034	51.31	+9.95
	New Democratic	Chris Buckley	19,212	37.87	+3.15
	Liberal	James Morton	3,536	6.97	-9.07
	Green	Gail Bates	1,631	3.21	-3.78
	Libertarian	Matthew Belanger	260	0.51	–
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	61	0.12	-0.12
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,734	100.00
Total rejected ballots			200	0.39	0.00
Turnout			50,934	57.31	+2.06
Eligible voters			88,878	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	19.951	41.36	+2.76	$83,665
	New Democratic	Mike Shields	16,750	34.72	+1.26	$66,814
	Liberal	Sean Godfrey	7,741	16.04	-7.94	$62,601
	Green	Pat Gostlin	3,374	6.99	+3.22	$9,606
	Christian Heritage	Peter Vogel	246	0.51	–	$2,149
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	117	0.24	-0.07
	Canadian Action	Alex Kreider	52	0.10	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,231	100.00	$89,927
Total rejected ballots			191	0.39	+0.04
Turnout			48,422	55.25	-8.62
	Conservative hold		Swing		+0.75

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	20,657	38.60	+5.39
	New Democratic	Sid Ryan	17,905	33.46	+1.23
	Liberal	Louise V. Parkes	12,831	23.98	-6.49
	Green	Adam Jobse	2,019	3.77	-0.11
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	91	0.17	-0.02
Total valid votes			53,503	100.00
Total rejected ballots			186	0.35	-0.25
Turnout			53,689	63.87	+6.67

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	15,815	33.21	-10.7
	New Democratic	Sid Ryan	15,352	32.23	+21.1
	Liberal	Louise V. Parkes	14,510	30.47	-12.4
	Green	Liisa Walley	1,850	3.88
	Marxist–Leninist	Tim Sullivan	91	0.19	-0.1
Total valid votes			47,618	100.0
Total rejected ballots			287	0.60
Turnout			47,905	57.20

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	Ivan Grose	16,179	42.9	+5.2
	Alliance	Barry Bussey	10,863	28.8	+0.5
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce L. Wright	5,675	15.1	-1.5
	New Democratic	Bruce Rogers	4,203	11.1	-6.3
	Marijuana	Craig James Michael McMillan	679	1.8
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	97	0.3
Total valid votes			37,696	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ivan Grose	15,925	37.7	-0.5
	Reform	Andrew Davies	11,974	28.4	-0.5
	New Democratic	Brian Nicholson	7,350	17.4	+2.5
	Progressive Conservative	Alan Hayes	6,972	16.5	+1.4
Total valid votes			42,221	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ivan Grose	15,574	38.3	+3.9
	Reform	Andrew Davies	11,760	28.9
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Dionne	6,137	15.1	+6.4
	New Democratic	Michael Breaugh	6,066	14.9	-32.7
	National	John Arkelian	387	1.0
	Christian Heritage	Brian Chiasson	383	0.9	-4.2
	Natural Law	Helene Ann Darisse	260	0.6
	Commonwealth of Canada	Ann-Marie Methot	73	0.2
	Abolitionist	Christopher Boddy	60	0.1
Total valid votes			40,700	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 13 August 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On Ed Broadbent's resignation, 2 January 1990
	New Democratic	Michael Breaugh	12,046	47.6	+3.3
	Liberal	Cathy O'Flynn	8,709	34.4	+13.9
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Longworth	1,627	6.4	-27.4
	Christian Heritage	Gerry Van Schepen	1,308	5.2
	Confederation of Regions	Garnet Chesebrough	1,024	4.0
	Green	David A.J. Hubbell	243	1.0
	Libertarian	George Dance	117	0.5	-0.6
	Social Credit	Ken Campbell	96	0.4
	Independent	Robert Bob Kirk	94	0.4
	Independent	John Turmel	50	0.2
Total valid votes			25,314	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	18,410	44.3	+2.0
	Progressive Conservative	Nancy McLean	14,040	33.8	-5.0
	Liberal	Ed White	8,496	20.5	+2.4
	Libertarian	George S. Kozaroff	449	1.1	+0.5
	Commonwealth of Canada	Lucylle Boikoff	139	0.3	+0.2
Total valid votes			41,534	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	25,092	42.3	-9.3
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Sosna	23,028	38.8	+10.6
	Liberal	Terry Kelly	10,719	18.1	-1.5
	Libertarian	Rolf Posma	335	0.6	+0.2
	Commonwealth of Canada	Lucille Boikoff	74	0.1
	Communist	Russell Z. Rak	72	0.1	0.0
Total valid votes			59,320	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	26,761	51.6	+0.4
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Souch	14,645	28.3	-4.1
	Liberal	Elizabeth Gomes	10,129	19.5	+3.5
	Libertarian	Dolores Keys	178	0.3
	Communist	Russell Rak	81	0.2	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Steve Rutchinski	29	0.1	0.0
Total valid votes			51,823	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	29,090	51.3	+2.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Souch	18,369	32.4	+10.2
	Liberal	Elizabeth Gomes	9,099	16.0	-12.7
	Communist	Russ Rak	80	0.1	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Bill Aird	62	0.1	0.0
	Independent	Richard Sanders	47	0.1
Total valid votes			56,747	100.0

Oshawa—Whitby, 1967-1976

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	25,013	48.7	+6.8
	Liberal	Margaret Shaw	14,783	28.8	+11.1
	Progressive Conservative	Martin Weatherall	11,412	22.2	-18.2
	Communist	Russell Rak	125	0.2	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Dennis Deveau	66	0.1
Total valid votes			51,399	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	23,757	41.8	+8.2
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Starr	22,933	40.4	+6.8
	Liberal	Peter Connolly	10,027	17.6	-15.2
	Independent	Russell Rak	98	0.2
Total valid votes			56,815	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Ed Broadbent	15,224	33.6
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Starr	15,209	33.6
	Liberal	Desmond G. Newman	14,899	32.9
Total valid votes			45,332	100.0

References

"(Code 35061) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
1966-67 Riding history from the Library of Parliament
1976-2008 Riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 results from Elections Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

Federal ridings in Southern Durham and York

Liberal	Ajax Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill King—Vaughan Markham—Stouffville Markham—Thornhill Pickering—Uxbridge Richmond Hill Vaughan—Woodbridge Whitby

Conservative	Markham—Unionville Oshawa Thornhill

Federal ridings in Ontario

Central Ontario

Eastern Ontario

S Durham & York

Southwestern Durham	Ajax Oshawa Pickering—Uxbridge Whitby

Southern York	Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill King—Vaughan Markham—Stouffville Markham—Thornhill Markham—Unionville Richmond Hill Thornhill Vaughan—Woodbridge

City of Toronto
(Suburbs & Downtown)

Scarborough	Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough North Scarborough—Rouge Park Scarborough Southwest

Beaches—East York Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley North Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Humber River—Black Creek Parkdale—High Park Spadina—Fort York Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Toronto—St. Paul's University—Rosedale Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston

Etobicoke	Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North

Cities of Brampton & Mississauga

Brampton	Brampton Centre Brampton East Brampton North Brampton South Brampton West

Mississauga	Mississauga Centre Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erin Mills Mississauga—Lakeshore Mississauga—Malton Mississauga—Streetsville

Southern Halton,
Hamilton and Niagara

Southwestern Halton	Burlington Milton Oakville Oakville North—Burlington

City of Hamilton	Flamborough—Glanbrook Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas

Niagara	Niagara Centre Niagara Falls Niagara West St. Catharines

See also: Provincial ridings in Ontario

Coordinates: 43°54′03″N 78°50′43″W / 43.9009°N 78.8454°W / 43.9009; -78.8454

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