St. Catharines (electoral district)

St. Catharines
Ontario electoral district
	St. Catharines in relation to other southern Ontario electoral districts (2015 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
;
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	110,596
Electors (2015)	83,821
Area (km²)[2]	61
Pop. density (per km²)	1,813
Census divisions	Niagara
Census subdivisions	St. Catharines

St. Catharines is a federal electoral district in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

It consists of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying east and north of a line drawn from Lake Ontario: Courtleigh Road, Third Street Louth, the QEW, Highway 406, First Street Louth, St. Paul Street West, St. Paul Crescent, Twelve Mile Creek, Glendale Avenue, Merrit Street and Glendale Avenue.

History

It was created in 1966 from parts of Lincoln riding.

It consisted initially of the part of the City of St. Catharines bounded on the east by the eastern city limit, and on the north, west and south by a line drawn from the city limit southwest along Eastchester Avenue, south along Bunting Road, southwest along Rockwood Street, south along Hartzell Road, northwest along the Canadian National Railway (CNR) line, south along Glengarry Road, east along Glendale Avenue, south along Mountain Street and east along Bradley Street to the city limit.

In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying north of the Canadian National Railway.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying north of a line drawn from west to east along St. Paul Street West, St. Paul Street West to St. Paul Crescent, the old Welland Canal, Carter Creek, the first Canadian National Railway spur line and the main CNR line and Queenston Street.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying north and east of a line drawn from the western city limit along St. Paul Street West, St. Paul Crescent, the Old Welland Canal, Carter Creek, the first Canadian National Railway spur line, the most easterly Canadian National Railway spur line and the yard line to the southern city limit.

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

This riding lost fractions of territory to Niagara West and Niagara Centre during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Federal riding associations

Riding associations are the local branches of the national political parties:

Party		Association Name	CEO	HQ Address	HQ City
	Christian Heritage Party of Canada	Christian Heritage Party St. Catharines E.D.A.	Bill Luchies	21 Forster Street	St. Catharines
	Conservative Party of Canada	St. Catharines Conservative Association	Grace Pang	109 Magnolia Lane	Welland
	Liberal Party of Canada	St. Catharines Federal Liberal Association	Brian McMullen		St. Catharines
	New Democratic Party	St. Catharines Federal NDP Riding Association	Irene E. Lowell	5 Roehampton Avenue	St. Catharines

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
St. Catharines Riding created from Lincoln
28th	1968–1972	James McNulty	Liberal
29th	1972–1974	J. Trevor Morgan	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979	Gilbert Parent	Liberal
31st	1979–1980	Joseph Reid	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993	Ken Atkinson
35th	1993–1997	Walt Lastewka	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Rick Dykstra	Conservative
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present	Chris Bittle	Liberal

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Chris Bittle	24,870	43.18	+22.49	$100,562.32
	Conservative	Rick Dykstra	21,637	37.57	-13.09	$188,880.75
	New Democratic	Susan Erskine-Fournier	9,511	16.51	-7.44	$30,053.13
	Green	Jim Fannon	1,488	2.58	-1.25	–
	Communist	Saleh Waziruddin	85	0.15	-0.05	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			57,591	100.0		$222,166.81
Total rejected ballots			243	–	–
Turnout			57,834	–	–
Eligible voters			84,474
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+17.79
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]^[5]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	25,090	50.66
	New Democratic	11,860	23.95
	Liberal	10,248	20.69
	Green	1,895	3.83
	Others	436	0.88

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Dykstra	25,571	50.9	+5.1	–
	New Democratic	Mike Williams	11,973	23.8	+5.4	–
	Liberal	Andrew Gill	10,358	20.6	-8.0	–
	Green	Jennifer Mooradian	1,924	3.8	-3.0	$2,828.62
	Christian Heritage	Dave Bylsma	357	0.7	+0.7	$8,069.31
	Communist	Saleh Waziruddin	91	0.2	-0.0	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,221	100.0	$89,890.78
Rejected ballots			226	0.4	+0.1
Turnout			50,500	60.9	-0.3

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Dykstra	23,474	45.9	+8.4	$77,155
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	14,652	28.6	-8.4	$85,551
	New Democratic	George Addision	9,428	18.4	-2.1	$21,329
	Green	Jim Fannon	3,477	6.8	+2.8	$3,511
	Communist	Sam Hammond	113	0.2	–	$410
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,144	100.0	$88,319
Rejected ballots			161	0.3
Turnout			51,305	61.2

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Dykstra	21,668	37.5	+2.8	$78,093.76
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	21,424	37.0	−3.4	$76,408.07
	New Democratic	Jeff Burch	11,849	20.5	+1.2	$15,482.42
	Green	Jim Fannon	2,306	4.0	+0.3	$991.15
	Christian Heritage	Bill Bylsma	499	0.9	−0.5	$8,736.24
	Marxist–Leninist	Elaine Couto	100	0.2	+0.1
Total valid votes			57,846	100.0
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	21,277	40.4	−4.5	$67,606.54
	Conservative	Leo Bonomi	18,261	34.7	−13.2	$76,063.45
	New Democratic	Ted Mouradian	10,135	19.3	+13.1	$13,554.17
	Green	Jim Fannon	1,927	3.7	–	$1,145.69
	Christian Heritage	Linda Klassen	751	1.4	–	$15,303.13
	Canadian Action	Jane Elizabeth Paxton	204	0.4	–	$0.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Elaine Couto	61	0.1	−0.1	$6.90
Total valid votes			52,616	100.0
Total rejected ballots			240
Turnout			52,856	62.03
Electors on the lists			85,209
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000. Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	20,992	44.9	+1.5	$48,037.11
	Alliance	Randy Taylor Dumont	15,871	34.0	+3.0	$65,538.72
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Atkinson	6,522	14.0	+0.6	$20,495.69
	New Democratic	John Bacher	2,878	6.2	−3.4	$12,153.96
	Natural Law	Jim Morris	203	0.4	−0.1	$0.00
	Independent	Tilly Bylsma	166	0.4	–	$4,942.92
	Marxist–Leninist	Elaine Couto	93	0.2	–	$8.00
Total valid votes			46,725	100.0
Total rejected ballots			223
Turnout			46,948	60.02
Electors on the lists			78,215
Sources: Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	21,081	43.5	−5.6	$46,896
	Reform	Rob Hesp	15,029	31.0	+2.2	$41,350
	Progressive Conservative	Gregg Crealock	6,503	13.4	−1.6	$25,799
	New Democratic	Ed Gould	4,657	9.6	+3.8	$24,683
	Christian Heritage	Tristan Emmanuel	688	1.4	+0.2	$7,249
	Canadian Action	G.L. Malcolm	308	0.6	–	$2,976
	Natural Law	Helene Darisse	245	0.5	–	$0.00
Total valid votes			48,511	100.0
Total rejected ballots			272
Turnout			48,783	65.49
Electors on the lists			74,484
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Walt Lastewka	23,928	48.99		$49,786
	Reform	Rob Hesp	14,011	28.69		$31,523
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Atkinson	7,448	15.25		$40,187
	New Democratic	Jane Hughes	2,799	5.73		$10,877
	Christian Heritage	David W. Bylsma	568	1.16		$3,349
	Abolitionist	Kevin Doucet	86	0.18		$0
Total valid votes			45,652	100.0
Total rejected ballots			383
Total valid votes			49,223	68.44
Electors on the lists			71,919
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Atkinson	19,623	40.7	-9.0
	Liberal	Barbara Buchanan	16,043	33.3	+14.8
	New Democratic	Rob West	12,260	25.5	-5.2
	Communist	Eric Blair	241	0.5	+0.3
Total valid votes			48,167	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Reid	26,621	49.7	+11.8
	New Democratic	Gerry Michaud	16,397	30.6	+4.2
	Liberal	Linus Hand	9,890	18.5	-16.5
	Green	Tom Ferguson	365	0.7
	Social Credit	Glen Hodgins	108	0.2
	Communist	Mel Doig	93	0.2	0.0
	Commonwealth of Canada	Lancelot Mottley	56	0.1
Total valid votes			53,530	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Reid	18,622	37.9	-8.4
	Liberal	David Wiebe	17,173	34.9	+5.4
	New Democratic	Peter Elliott	13,006	26.5	+3.0
	Rhinoceros	Fred Horny Lake	230	0.2	-0.1
	Communist	Don Stewart	76	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Vicki Wiwcharyk	35	0.1	0.0
Total valid votes			49,142	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Reid	23,444	46.3	+12.6
	Liberal	William Andres	14,990	29.6	-16.7
	New Democratic	Peter J. Elliott	11,897	23.5	+4.7
	Libertarian	Kenneth F. MacKay	186	0.4
	Communist	Melbourne Doig	111	0.2	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Victoria A. Wiwcharyk	40	0.1	-0.1
Total valid votes			50,668	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gilbert Parent	22,528	46.2	+8.0
	Progressive Conservative	Trevor Morgan	16,402	33.7	-6.3
	New Democratic	Fred Dickson	9,147	18.8	-1.3
	Social Credit	Jean Charles Hamelin	443	0.9	-0.2
	Communist	William Stewart	129	0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Roger Ten Trey	69	0.1
Total valid votes			48,718	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Trevor Morgan	19,257	40.0	+3.5
	Liberal	James C. McNulty	18,442	38.3	-7.2
	New Democratic	Michael Inneq	9,683	20.1	+2.1
	Social Credit	R.H. James	538	1.1
	Independent	John Donald Clout	250	0.5
Total valid votes			48,170	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	James C. McNulty	18,100	45.4
	Progressive Conservative	Laura Sabia	14,544	36.5
	New Democratic	June E. Cook	7,185	18.0
Total valid votes			39,829	100.0

References

"(Code 35076) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.

Notes

↑ Statistics Canada: 2011
↑ Statistics Canada: 2011
↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for St. Catharines, 30 September 2015
↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
↑ "Election Night Results - Elections Canada". p. Ontario, St. Catharines. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
↑ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results

Coordinates: 43°09′58″N 79°13′59″W / 43.166°N 79.233°W / 43.166; -79.233

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[1] Statistics Canada: 2011

[2] Statistics Canada: 2011

[3] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for St. Catharines, 30 September 2015

[4] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

[5] "Election Night Results - Elections Canada". p. Ontario, St. Catharines. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

[6] Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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