Elgin—Middlesex—London

Elgin—Middlesex—London is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

It was created in 1996 from Elgin—Norfolk, Lambton—Middlesex, and London—Middlesex ridings. This riding lost territory to London—Fanshawe during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Elgin—Middlesex—London Riding created from Elgin—Norfolk, Lambton—Middlesex and London—Middlesex
36th	1997–2000	Gar Knutson	Liberal
37th	2000–2004	Gar Knutson	Liberal
38th	2004–2006	Joe Preston	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present	Karen Vecchio	Conservative

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Karen Louise Vecchio	28,023	49.22	–8.83	–
	Liberal	Lori Baldwin-Sands	17,642	30.99	+17.57	–
	New Democratic	Fred Sinclair	8,771	15.41	–8.67	–
	Green	Bronagh Joyce Morgan	1,783	3.13	+0.11	–
	Christian Heritage	Michael Hopkins	529	0.93		–
	Rhinoceros	Lou Bernardi	185	0.32	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			56,933	100.00		$218,764.77
Total rejected ballots			230	0.40
Turnout			57,163	68.96
Eligible voters			82,892
	Conservative hold		Swing		–13.20
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	28,387	58.05
	New Democratic	11,774	24.08
	Liberal	6,559	13.41
	Green	1,478	3.02
	Others	701	1.43

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Joe Preston	29,147	57.55	+9.17	–
	New Democratic	Fred Sinclair	12,439	24.56	+5.32	–
	Liberal	Graham Warwick	6,812	13.45	-10.07	–
	Green	John Fisher	1,529	3.02	-3.80	–
	Christian Heritage	Carl Hiemstra	582	1.15	-0.15	–
	Canadian Action	Will Arlow	140	0.28	+0.08	–
Total valid votes			50,649	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			170	0.33	-0.07
Turnout			50,819	62.90	+3.24
Eligible voters			80,796	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Joe Preston	22,970	48.38	+2.8	$77,732
	Liberal	Suzanne van Bommel	11,169	23.52	-2.8	$79,198
	New Democratic	Ryan Dolby	9,135	19.24	0.0	$12,502
	Green	Noel Burgon	3,241	6.82	+1.2
	Christian Heritage	Carl Hiemstra	619	1.30	-0.7	$9,598
	Independent	Michael van Holst	243	0.51	–	$1,875
	Canadian Action	Will Arlow	96	0.20	0.0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,473	100.0	$85,544
Total rejected ballots			190	0.40
Turnout			47,663	59.66

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Joe Preston	23,416	45.6	+1.8
	Liberal	Crispin Colvin	13,507	26.3	-7.9
	New Democratic	Tim McCallum	9,873	19.2	+4.6
	Green	Jonathan Martyn	2,878	5.6	+1.2
	Christian Heritage	Ken DeVries	1,049	2.0	-0.7
	Progressive Canadian	Phill Borm	504	1.0
	Canadian Action	Will Arlow	105	0.2	-0.1
Total valid votes			51,332	100.0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Joe Preston	20,333	43.8	-8.7
	Liberal	Gar Knutson	15,860	34.2	-6.2
	New Democratic	Tim McCallum	6,763	14.6	+9.4
	Green	Julie-Ann Stodolny	2,033	4.4	+3.4
	Christian Heritage	Ken DeVries	1,246	2.7	+1.8
	Canadian Action	Will Arlow	146	0.3
Total valid votes			46,381	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	%	∆%
	Liberal	Gar Knutson	17,890	40.4	+0.4
	Alliance	Bill Walters	17,202	38.8	+15.8
	Progressive Conservative	Delia Reiche	6,080	13.7	-12.0
	New Democratic	Tim McCallum	2,319	5.2	-2.1
	Green	John R. Fisher	431	1.0	-0.2
	Independent	Ken DeVries	407	0.9	-1.9
Total valid votes			44,329	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Gar Knutson	17,890	40.0
	Progressive Conservative	Luella Watson	11,499	25.7
	Reform	John Van Der Veen	10,307	23.0
	New Democratic	Cynthia Nurse	3,260	7.3
	Christian Heritage	Ron Steenbergen	1,275	2.8
	Green	John R. Fisher	508	1.1
Total valid votes			44,739	100.0

References

"(Code 35020) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 Results from Elections Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

External links

Website of the Parliament of Canada
Website of the Conservative Party Electoral District Association for Elgin-Middlesex-London

Federal ridings in Southwestern Ontario

Conservative	Chatham-Kent—Leamington Elgin—Middlesex—London Lambton—Kent—Middlesex Sarnia—Lambton

New Democratic	Essex London—Fanshawe Windsor—Tecumseh Windsor West

Liberal	London North Centre London West

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Coordinates: 42°47′N 81°13′W / 42.78°N 81.21°W / 42.78; -81.21

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