St. John's South—Mount Pearl

St. John's South—Mount Pearl (French: St. John's-Sud—Mount Pearl; formerly St. John's South) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.

Demographics

Ethnic groups: 99.2% White
Languages: 98.7% English
Religions: 52.8% Catholic, 42.4% Protestant, 3.6% No affiliation
Average income: $25 379

Geography

The district includes the south end of the City of St. John's, the City of Mount Pearl, and the Town of Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove.

The neighbouring ridings are Avalon and St. John's East.

According to Elections Canada, the geographic boundaries of this riding for the 39th General Election are:

"All that area consisting of:

(a) that part of the City of St. John's lying southeasterly of the southeasterly limits of the towns of Conception Bay South and Paradise, and southeasterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of the City of St. John's with Kenmount Road immediately north of the northwesterly limit of the City of Mount Pearl; thence northeasterly and easterly along said road, Freshwater Road and Longs Hill to Gower Street; thence northeasterly along said street to Kings Bridge Road; thence northerly along said road to Rennie's River; thence generally easterly along said river, Quidi Vidi Lake and the channel known locally as Quidi Vidi Gut to Quidi Vidi Harbour;

(b) the City of Mount Pearl; and

See also Elections Canada's map of the riding (.PDF).

History

The electoral district was created in 2003: 95.1% of the population of the riding came from St. John's West, and 4.9% from St. John's East ridings. As of the 2012 electoral redistribution, 5% of this riding will be moved to St. John's East, and it will gain 3% from Avalon.

The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of St. John's South—Mount Pearl should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections.^[2] The redefined St. John's South—Mount Pearl had its boundaries legally defined in the 2013 representation order which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015.^[3]

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
St. John's South—Mount Pearl Riding created from St. John's West and St. John's East
38th	2004–2006	Loyola Hearn	Conservative
39th	2006–2008	Loyola Hearn	Conservative
40th	2008–2011	Siobhán Coady	Liberal
41st	2011–2015	Ryan Cleary	New Democratic
42nd	2015–Present	Seamus O'Regan	Liberal

Election results

St. John's South—Mount Pearl, 2013 Representation Order

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Seamus O'Regan	25,992	57.86	+29.16	–
	New Democratic	Ryan Cleary	16,467	36.76	–9.58	–
	Conservative	Marek Krol	2,047	4.57	–19.64	–
	Green	Jackson McLean	365	0.81	+0.09	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			44,801	100.00		$200,174.30
Total rejected ballots			133	0.30
Turnout			44,934	67.13
Eligible voters			66,936
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+19.37
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	17,925	46.34
	Liberal	11,104	28.70
	Conservative	9,366	24.21
	Green	280	0.72
	Others	9	0.02

St. John's South—Mount Pearl, 2003 Representation Order

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Ryan Cleary	18,681	47.92	+7.36	$67,211.17
	Liberal	Siobhán Coady	11,130	28.55	-14.77	$81,760.42
	Conservative	Loyola Sullivan	8,883	22.79	+10.24	$78,347.37
	Green	Rick Austin	291	0.75	-1.11	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,985	100.0	–	$82,628.65
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			108	0.28	+0.01
Turnout			39,093	58.97	+7.02
Eligible voters			66,294
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+11.06
Sources: ^[7] ^[8]

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Siobhán Coady	14,920	43.32	+10.32	$63,155.64
	New Democratic	Ryan Cleary	13,971	40.56	+18.87	$18,947.03
	Conservative	Merv Wiseman	4,324	12.55	-32.13	$63,115.88
	Green	Ted Warren	643	1.86	+1.23	$172.03
	Newfoundland and Labrador First	Greg Byrne	402	1.16	–	$2,908.17
	Independent	Terry Christopher Butler	179	0.51	–	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,439	100.0	–	$80,167
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			92	0.27	-0.06
Turnout			34,531	51.95
Eligible voters			66,467
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		-4.28

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Loyola Hearn	16,644	44.68	+5.11	$67,639.04
	Liberal	Siobhán Coady	12,295	33.00	-2.26	$68,791.05
	New Democratic	Peg Norman	8,079	21.69	-2.02	$40,492.63
	Green	Barry Crozier	235	0.63	-0.83	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,253	100.0	–	$73,776
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			124	0.33	+0.03
Turnout			37,371	57.90	+5.42
Eligible voters			64,543
	Conservative hold		Swing		+3.68

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Loyola Hearn	13,330	39.57	-16.27	$63,090.26
	Liberal	Siobhán Coady	11,879	35.26	+4.91	$63,121.27
	New Democratic	Peg Norman	7989	23.71	+10.31	$36,839.75
	Green	Steve Willcott	493	1.46	–	$184.24
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,691	100.0	–	$72,104
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			103	0.30
Turnout			33,794	52.48	-1.38
Eligible voters			64,397
	Conservative notional gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-10.59
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservatives is based on the combined totals of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Progressive Conservative	18,610	53.65
	Liberal	10,526	30.35
	New Democratic	4,647	13.40
	Alliance	761	2.19
	Others	142	0.41

References

"(Code 10007) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.

External links

Federal ridings in Newfoundland and Labrador

Liberal	Avalon Bonavista—Burin—Trinity Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame Labrador Long Range Mountains St. John's East St. John's South—Mount Pearl

Historical federal ridings in Newfoundland and Labrador

Federal ridings in Atlantic Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador	Avalon Bonavista—Burin—Trinity Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame Labrador Long Range Mountains St. John's East St. John's South—Mount Pearl

Nova Scotia	Cape Breton—Canso Central Nova Cumberland—Colchester Dartmouth—Cole Harbour Halifax Halifax West Kings—Hants Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook South Shore—St. Margarets Sydney—Victoria West Nova

Prince Edward Island	Cardigan Charlottetown Egmont Malpeque

New Brunswick	Acadie—Bathurst Beauséjour Fredericton Fundy Royal Madawaska—Restigouche Miramichi—Grand Lake Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe New Brunswick Southwest Saint John—Rothesay Tobique—Mactaquac

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