Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke

The riding was a Liberal stronghold both federally and provincially for over half a century; however, a growing religious and agricultural population has turned this district into one of the most conservative areas of Ontario.

Geography

It consists of

the County of Renfrew; and
the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing lying south and east of and including the townships of Deacon, Lister, Anglin, Dickson, Preston and Airy.

Political geography

Most of the riding is fairly Conservative. In the 2006 election, Deep River was the only significant community which voted Liberal. Pikwakanagan, a First Nations reserve, also voted Liberal, and the Township of Wylie had a tie vote. A small handful of polls in Pembroke voted Liberal, but most of the city voted Conservative.

History

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke was created in 1976 from parts of Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Renfrew North—Nipissing East ridings.

It consisted of the County of Renfrew, excluding the Townships of Bagot and Blythfield and McNab, and the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing including and lying easterly of the Townships of Mattawan, Papineau, Cameron, Deacon, Anglin, Dickson, Preston, Airy and Sabine.

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Renfrew riding. In 1989, Renfrew riding was renamed "Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke".

The new riding consisted of the County of Renfrew, and the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing lying east of and including the townships of Deacon and Lister, and east of but excluding the townships of Freswick, Bower and Sproule, and east of and including the townships of Airy and Sabine.

In 1996, the Nipissing part was redefined as being the part of the district lying east of and including the townships of Deacon and Lister, east of and excluding the townships of Freswick, Bower, Sproule and Nightingale, and east of and including the Township of Sabine.

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

This riding was unchanged during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Riding created from Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Renfrew North—Nipissing East
31st	1979–1980	Len Hopkins	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Renfrew
34th	1988–1989	Len Hopkins	Liberal
Renfrew—Nipissing—Renfrew
34th	1989–1993	Len Hopkins	Liberal
35th	1993–1997	Len Hopkins
36th	1997–2000	Hec Clouthier
37th	2000–2003	Cheryl Gallant	Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present

Election results

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, 1993 – present

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	26,195	45.83	-7.6	–
	Liberal	Jeff Lehoux	18,666	32.66	+19.93	–
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	6,300	11.02	-7.68	–
	New Democratic	Dan McCarthy	4,893	8.56	-4.87	–
	Green	Stefan Klietsch	1,105	1.93	+0.22	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			57,159	100.0	–	$222,926.86
Total rejected ballots			264	–	–
Turnout			57,423	73.5	+6.61
Eligible voters			78,080
	Conservative hold		Swing		-13.8
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	27,462	53.43	-7.66	–
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	9,611	18.70	–	–
	New Democratic	Eric Burton	6,903	13.43	+2.50	–
	Liberal	Christine Tabbert	6,545	12.73	-7.84	–
	Green	Rosanne Van Schie	877	1.71	-5.05	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,398	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			166	0.32	-0.08
Turnout			51,564	66.89	+3.74
Eligible voters			77,082	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	28,908	61.09	+3.4	$56,541
	Liberal	Carole Devine	9,737	20.57	-3.5	$67,673
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	5,175	10.93	-1.6	$31,328
	Green	Ben Hoffman	3,201	6.76	+5.7	$7,564
	Independent	Denis Gagné	293	0.61	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,314	100.0		$87,348
Total rejected ballots			188	0.4	–
Turnout			47,502	63.15	–

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	29,992	57.7	+2.6
	Liberal	Don Lindsay	12,551	24.1	-5.5
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	6,505	12.5	+1.0
	Green	Gordon S. McLeod	1,601	3.1	+0.7
	Independent	Paul Kelly	1,338	2.6	*
Total valid votes			51,987	100.0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	27,494	55.1	-0.4
	Liberal	Rob Jamieson	14,798	29.6	-9.4
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	5,720	11.5	+8.0
	Green	Gordon S. McLeod	1,191	2.4
	Marijuana	Stanley Sambey	714	1.4	-0.2
Total valid votes			49,917	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	%	∆%
	Alliance	Cheryl Gallant	20,634	44.2	+17.4
	Liberal	Hec Clouthier	18,211	39.0	-1.3
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Amaron	5,287	11.3	-14.1
	New Democratic	Ole Hendrickson	1,607	3.4	-3.2
	Marijuana	Stanley E. Sambey	762	1.6
	Independent	Thane C. Heins	121	0.3	*
	Natural Law	André Giordano	78	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			46,700	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Hec Clouthier	19,569	40.3	-10.3
	Reform	Ed Pinnell	13,035	26.8	+14.6
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Gould	12,352	25.4	+11.6
	New Democratic	Barbara Clarke	3,242	6.7	+4.0
	Canadian Action	Gay Curran-Desmond	236	0.5
	Natural Law	André Giordano	183	0.4	+0.1
Total valid votes			48,617	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	25,725	50.5	-3.8
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	10,287	20.2
	Progressive Conservative	Milton Stevenson	7,039	13.8	-18.2
	Reform	Edward Pinnell	6,209	12.2
	New Democratic	Barbara Clarke	1,345	2.6	-9.9
	Abolitionist	Murray Reid	145	0.3
	Natural Law	Daphne Quance	143	0.3
Total valid votes			50,893	100.0

Renfrew, 1988 – 1993

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	25,558	54.3	+9.2
	Progressive Conservative	Ben Hoffman	15,081	32.1	-13.0
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter	5,879	12.5	+2.7
	Confederation of Regions	Murray Reid	520	1.1
Total valid votes			47,038	100.0

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, 1979 – 1988

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	19,502	45.1	-6.6
	Progressive Conservative	Don Whillans	19,464	45.0	+12.4
	New Democratic	Gavin Murphy	4,253	9.8	-5.8
Total valid votes			43,219	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	20,529	51.7	+2.5
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Amaron	12,966	32.7	-0.8
	New Democratic	Don Breault	6,200	15.6	-1.7
Total valid votes			39,695	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	20,286	49.2
	Progressive Conservative	Don Sutherland	13,781	33.4
	New Democratic	Don Breault	7,133	17.3
Total valid votes			41,200	100.0

References

"(Code 35074) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
RENFREW--NIPISSING--PEMBROKE, Ontario (1976 - 1987) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
RENFREW, Ontario (1987 - 1989) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
RENFREW--NIPISSING--PEMBROKE, Ontario (1989 - 2008) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
[Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke 2011 results from Elections Canada]
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

External links

Valley News Net Local media coverage of 2006 election

Federal ridings in Eastern Ontario

Liberal	Bay of Quinte Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Hastings—Lennox and Addington Kingston and the Islands

Conservative	Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

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: 45°38′N 77°25′W / 45.63°N 77.41°W / 45.63; -77.41

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