Kitchener Centre

Kitchener Centre (French: Kitchener-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Geography

The district includes the north-central part of the city of Kitchener, Ontario.

Political geography

In 2008, the race in Kitchener was razor thin between the Conservatives and Liberals. Politically, the riding is split by the Conestoga Parkway. The area to the west of the Parkway tends to support the Liberals while the area to the east of the Parkway tends to vote for the Conservatives. The NDP also won a small handful of polls, scattered around the riding.

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from parts of Kitchener and Kitchener—Waterloo ridings.

It initially consisted of the part of the City of Kitchener bounded on the west by the western limit of the city, on the south by a line drawn from west to east along the Conestoga Parkway, Strasburg Road, Block Line Road, the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and Highway No. 8, on the east by the Grand River, and on the north by a line drawn from east to west along Victoria Street, Lawrence Avenue and Highland Road West.

In 2003, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Kitchener bounded on the west by the western limit of the city, on the north by a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Fischer Hallman Road and the Canadian National Railway situated northerly of Shadeland Crescent, on the east by the Grand River, and on the south by a line drawn from east to west along the King Street Bypass (Highway No. 8), King Street East and the Conestoga Parkway.

This riding lost territory to Kitchener—Conestoga and Kitchener South—Hespeler, and gained territory from Kitchener—Waterloo during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Member of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Member of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Kitchener Centre Riding created from Kitchener and Kitchener—Waterloo
36th	1997–2000	Karen Redman	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011	Stephen Woodworth	Conservative
41st	2011–2015	Stephen Woodworth	Conservative
42nd	2015–Present	Raj Saini	Liberal

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Raj Saini	25,504	48.78	+16.49	$100,662.46
	Conservative	Stephen Woodworth	15,872	30.36	-10.00	$126,009.07
	New Democratic	Susan Cadell	8,680	16.60	-5.32	$58,064.50
	Green	Nicholas Wendler	1,597	3.05	-1.52	$1,292.98
	Libertarian	Slavko Miladinovic	515	0.99	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Julian Ichim	112	0.21	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,280	100.00		$209,331.18
Total rejected ballots			292	0.56	–
Turnout			52,572	68.46
Eligible voters			76,797
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+13.25
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	18,967	40.36
	Liberal	15,175	32.29
	New Democratic	10,305	21.93
	Green	2,152	4.58
	Others	396	0.84

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Woodworth	21,119	42.39	+5.70	$84,217.49
	Liberal	Karen Redman	15,592	31.30	-4.64	$79,800.33
	New Democratic	Peter Thurley	10,742	21.56	+3.48	$38,822.94
	Green	Byron Williston	1,972	3.95	+1.06	$4,298.33
	Independent	Alan Rimmer	199	0.39	-0.08	$1,916.45
	Communist	Martin Suter	93	0.19	-0.09	$502.09
	Marxist–Leninist	Mark Corbiere	92	0.18	–	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,809	100.00	$87,274.51
Total rejected ballots			209	0.42	+0.01
Turnout			50,018	63.13	+6.10
Eligible voters			79,232	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Woodworth	16,480	36.69	+4.56	$75,291
	Liberal	Karen Redman	16,141	35.94	-7.32	$74,745
	New Democratic	Oz Cole-Arnal	8,152	18.08	-0.35	$26,622
	Green	John Bithell	3,818	8.51	+2.89	$2,612
	Independent	Amanda Lamka	215	0.47	–
	Communist	Martin Suter	127	0.28	-0.26	$373
Total valid votes/Expense limit			44,933	100.00	$84,756
Total rejected ballots			183	0.41	-0.05
Turnout			45,091	57.03	-7.67
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.94

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Karen Redman	21,715	43.26	-3.8
	Conservative	Steven Cage	16,131	32.13	+4.6
	New Democratic	Richard Walsh-Bowers	9,250	18.43	-0.9
	Green	Tony Maas	2,822	5.62	+0.2
	Communist	Martin Suter	274	0.54
Total valid votes			50,192	100.00
Total rejected ballots			232	0.46
Turnout			50,426	64.70

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Karen Redman	21,264	47.1	-5.7
	Conservative	Thomas Ichim	12,412	27.5	-12.4
	New Democratic	Richard Walsh-Bowers	8,717	19.3	+12.4
	Green	Karol Vesely	2,450	5.4
	Independent	Mark Corbiere	277	0.6
Total valid votes			45,120	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	Karen Redman	23,511	52.8	+4.8
	Alliance	Eloise Jantzi	11,603	26.1	+6.2
	Progressive Conservative	Steven Daniel Gadbois	6,162	13.8	-8.9
	New Democratic	Paul Royston	3,058	6.9	-2.5
	Communist	Martin Suter	167	0.4
Total valid votes			44,501	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Karen Redman	23,089	48.0
	Progressive Conservative	John Reimer	10,960	22.8
	Reform	Ronald Albert Wilson	9,550	19.9
	New Democratic	Lucy Harrison	4,503	9.4
Total valid votes			48,102	100.0

References

"(Code 35037) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
2001 Results from Elections Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

External links

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