Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district)

Timmins—James Bay

Ontario electoral district

Timmins—James Bay in relation to other electoral districts in Northern Ontario

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP

Gilles Bisson
New Democratic

District created

1999

First contested

1999

Last contested

2014

Demographics

Population (2001)

71,648

Electors (2007)

48,516

Area (km²)

250,557

Pop. density (per km²)

0.29

Census divisions

District of Cochrane, District of Timiskaming, District of Kenora

For the federal electoral district, see Timmins—James Bay.

Timmins—James Bay is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2001 was 84,001.

The district includes the extreme eastern part of the District of Kenora, all of the District of Cochrane except for the central western part, and a small part south of Timmins, and all of the District of Timiskaming except for the extreme southeastern part.

Geography

Timmins—James Bay consists of

the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn from the northeast corner of the most northerly point of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay (Albany River) due north to Hudson Bay;
the Territorial District of Cochrane, excluding the part bounded by a line drawn from the western limit of the territorial district east along the northern limits of the townships of Boyce, Boyce, Shuel, Mulloy, Fintry, Auden, Rogers, Fushimi, Bannerman, Ritchie, Mulvey, Goldwin, Sweet, Hillmer, McKnight, Boyle, Mowbray, Howells, Sheldon, Pinard and Mewhinney, south along the eastern boundaries of the townships of Mewhinney, Bourassa, Tolmie, Menapia, Beniah, Colquhoun and Calder, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Ottaway, south along the western boundaries of the townships of Ottaway, Beck, Lucas and Prosser, and west along the southern boundaries of the townships of Carnegie, Reid, Thorburn, Moberly, Aitken, Poulett, Watson and Lisgar, to the southwestern limit of the territorial district;
the part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming bounded by a line drawn from the northeast corner of the Township of Harris, west along the northern boundaries of the townships of Harris, Dymond, Hudson, Lundy, Auld and Speight, and south along the western boundaries of the townships of Speight, Van Nostrand and Leo to the southern limit of the territorial district.

History

Timmins—James Bay was created in 1999 from all of Cochrane North and part of Cochrane South. At that time, Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes.

It consisted initially of:

the part of the Territorial District of Cochrane lying west and north of a line drawn from the southeast corner of the City of Timmins north and west along the east and north limits of the city north along the east boundaries of the Townships of Prosser, Lucas, Beck and Ottaway, west and north al;ong the south and west boundary of the Township of Clute, north along the east boundary of the Township of Colquhoun, and east along the south boundaries of the Townships of Marven, Thorning, Potter, Sangster, Bragg, Newman, Tomlinson, Hurtubise and St. Laurent,
the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn north from the most northerly northeast corner of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay to Hudson Bay.

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

Timmins—James Bay
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Cochrane North and Cochrane South
37th	1999–2003		Gilles Bisson	New Democratic
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Gilles Bisson	11,818	51.39	+1.92
	Liberal	Sylvie Fontaine	5,592	24.32	+11.95
	Progressive Conservative	Steve Black	5,226	22.72	-13.97
	Green	Bozena Hrycyna	301	1.31	+0.31
	Confederation of Regions	Fauzia Sadiq	61	0.27
Total valid votes			22,998	100.00
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-5.02
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Gilles Bisson	11,479	49.47	-2.70
	Progressive Conservative	Al Spacek	8,515	36.69	+28.08
	Liberal	Leonard Rickard	2,870	12.37	-25.15
	Green	Angela Plant	233	1.00	-0.70
	Freedom	Robert Neron	108	0.47
Total valid votes			23,205	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			83	0.36
Turnout			23,288	46.84
Eligible voters			49,723
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-15.39
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Gilles Bisson	13,291	52.17	+2.47
	Liberal	Pat Boucher	9,560	37.52	-3.64
	Progressive Conservative	Steve Kidd	2,193	8.61	+0.2
	Green	Larry Verner	434	1.70	+0.97
Total valid votes			25,478	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Gilles Bisson	14,941	49.70	-3.20
	Liberal	Michael J. Doody	12,373	41.16	+8.34
	Progressive Conservative	Merv Russell	2,527	8.41	-4.86
	Green	Marsha Kriss	219	0.73
Total valid votes			30,060	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Gilles Bisson	16,504	52.90
	Liberal	Yves Malette	10,238	32.82
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Pelchat	4,139	13.27
	Independent	Ed Walsh	316	1.01
Total valid votes			31,197	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	18,494	77.3
	Mixed member proportional	5,433	22.7
	Total valid votes	23,927	100.0

Notes

↑ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "General Election Results by District, 093 Timmins-James Bay". Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Timmins—James Bay" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2014.

External links

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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