Thunder Bay—Atikokan (provincial electoral district)

Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Ontario electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP

Bill Mauro
Liberal

District created

1999

First contested

1999

Last contested

2014

Demographics

Population (2001)

76,009

Electors (2007)

55,007

Area (km²)

24,660

Pop. density (per km²)

3.1

For the former federal electoral district, see Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Thunder Bay—Atikokan is a provincial electoral district in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

The electoral district was created from Port Arthur, Fort William, Lake Nipigon and Rainy River in 1999 when Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level.

In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts, including Thunder Bay—Atikokan, are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.^[1]

Members

Thunder Bay—Atikokan
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Port Arthur, Fort William, Lake Nipigon and Rainy River
37th	1999–2003		Lyn McLeod	Liberal
38th	2003–2007		Bill Mauro	Liberal
39th	2007–2011
40th	2001–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	15,177	52.94	+13.97
	New Democratic	Mary Kozorys	8,072	28.16	-9.15
	Progressive Conservative	Harold Wilson	3,776	13.17	-8.79
	Green	John Northey	964	3.36	+1.93
	Libertarian	Joe Talarico	546	1.90
	Northern Ontario Heritage	Ed Deibel	131	0.46
Total valid votes			28,666	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		+11.56
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	10,319	38.97	+1.28
	New Democratic	Mary Kozorys	9,881	37.31	-0.21
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Gilbert	5,815	21.96	+1.55
	Green	Jonathan Milnes	379	1.43	-2.95
	Independent	Marvin Robert McMenemy	86	0.32
Total valid votes			26,480	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			98	0.37
Turnout			26,578	46.61
Eligible voters			57,027
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.75
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	10,928	37.69	-20.55
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	10,878	37.52	+15.88
	Progressive Conservative	Rebecca Johnson	5,918	20.41	+2.78
	Green	Russ Aegard	1,270	4.38	+1.89
Total valid votes			28,994	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Bill Mauro	17,735	58.25	-5.78
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	6,582	21.62	+4.86
	Progressive Conservative	Brian McKinnon	5,365	17.62	-1.59
	Green	Kristin Boyer	762	2.5
Total valid votes			30,444	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lyn McLeod	20,268	64.03
	Progressive Conservative	John Henderson	6,081	19.21
	New Democratic	Jack Drewes	5,304	16.76
Total valid votes			31,653	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	19,153	67.9
	Mixed member proportional	9,056	32.1
	Total valid votes	28,209	100.0

Notes

↑ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "General Election Results by District, 090 Thunder Bay-Atikokan". Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Thunder Bay—Atikokan" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2014.

Sources

Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results

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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