Parry Sound—Muskoka (provincial electoral district)

The riding consists of the Territorial District of Parry Sound (excluding the Town of Powassan, the townships of Nipissing and North Himsworth, and the part of the Town of Killarney contained in the district), the District Municipality of Muskoka, and the part of the Town of Kearney lying in the Territorial Nipissing District.

History

Prior to the 1999 boundary realignment two ridings covered the area: Parry Sound and Muskoka. Parry Sound—Muskoka provincial electoral district was created in 1906, 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.

It initially consisted of the District Municipality of Muskoka, the Territorial District of Parry Sound (excluding the towns of Powassan and Trout Creek and the townships of Nipissing, North Himsworth and South Himsworth) and the township of Sherborne and Others (formerly Sherborne, McClintock, Livingstone, Lawrence and Nightingale) in the County of Haliburton.

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 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 of Provincial Parliament

Parry Sound—Muskoka
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Parry Sound and Muskoka
37th	1999–2001		Ernie Eves	Progressive Conservative
37th	2001–2003		Norm Miller
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Miller	15,752	40.70	-13.39
	Liberal	Dan Waters	10,177	26.30	+8.09
	Green	Matt Richter	7,484	19.34	+10.28
	New Democratic	Clyde Mobbley	4,993	12.90	-5.28
	Freedom	Andy Stivrins	296	0.76	+0.29
Total valid votes			38,702	100.00
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-10.74
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Miller	19,417	54.09	+6.92
	Liberal	Cindy Waters	6,537	18.21	-8.50
	New Democratic	Alex Zyganiuk	6,527	18.18	+4.54
	Green	Matt Richter	3,251	9.06	-3.42
	Freedom	Andy Stivrins	167	0.47
Total valid votes			35,896	100.0
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			171	0.47
Turnout			36,070	51.79
Eligible voters			69,651
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+7.71
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Miller	17,343	47.17	-1.34
	Liberal	Brenda Rhodes	9,819	26.71	-7.73
	New Democratic	Sara Hall	5,015	13.64	+3.72
	Green	Matt Richter	4,589	12.48	+6.6
Total valid votes			36,766	100.0

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Miller	18,776	48.51	-0.79
	Liberal	Dan Waters	13,332	34.44	+0.13
	New Democratic	Jo-Anne Boulding	3,838	9.92	+6.53
	Green	Glen Hodgson	2,277	5.88	-6.46
	Family Coalition	Charlene Phinney	484	1.25
Total valid votes			38,707	100.0

Ontario provincial by-election, February 8, 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Miller	12,903	49.30	-8.67
	Liberal	Evelyn Brown	8,979	34.31	+6.62
	Green	Richard Thomas	3,229	12.34
	New Democratic	Joanne Bury	888	3.39	-10.1
	Independent	Anne Marsden	113	0.43
	Independent	John Turmel	61	0.23
Total valid votes			26,173	100.0

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Ernie Eves	22,967	57.97
	Liberal	Isabel Doxey	10,970	27.69
	New Democratic	Dan Waters	5,343	13.49
	Natural Law	Iris Tamssot	339	0.86
Total valid votes			39,619	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	24,430	67.9
	Mixed member proportional	11,523	32.1
	Total valid votes	35,953	100.0

Notes

↑ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "General Election Results by District, 069 Parry Sound-Muskoka". Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Parry Sound—Muskoka" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2014.

Sources

Elections Ontario

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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