Welland (provincial electoral district)

For the federal electoral district, see Welland (electoral district).

Welland

Ontario electoral district
File:Welland, riding.png Welland in relation to southern Ontario ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Cindy Forster New Democratic
District created	2006
First contested	2007
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	112,875
Electors (2011)	86,257
Area (km²)	583
Pop. density (per km²)	193.6
Census divisions	Niagara
Census subdivisions	Welland, Thorold, Port Colborne, Wainfleet, St. Catharines

Welland (formerly Niagara Centre) is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since the 2007 provincial election. Its population in 2006 was 112,875.

The current electoral district was created in 2003: 74.9% of the riding came from Niagara Centre riding, 22.5% from Erie—Lincoln and 2.7% from Niagara Falls riding.

The riding also existed from 1867 until 1981 under different boundaries.

A new riding of Niagara Centre was created before the 1999 election from small parts of Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock ridings, and almost all of Welland—Thorold riding.

Geography

Welland riding consists of the cities of Welland, Thorold, and Port Colborne, the Township of Wainfleet, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and east along Glendale Avenue to the eastern city limit.[1]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding re-created from Welland—Thorold, Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock
Niagara Centre
37th	1999–2003		Peter Kormos	New Democratic
38th	2003–2007
Welland
39th	2007–2011		Peter Kormos	New Democratic
40th	2011–2014		Cindy Forster	New Democratic
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Welland, 2007–present

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Cindy Forster	21,281	46.72	+2.06
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Campion	12,947	28.42	-3.71
	Liberal	Benoit Mercier	8,997	19.75	-0.01
	Green	Donna Cridland	1,874	4.11	+1.81
	Libertarian	Andrea J. Murik	450	0.99	-0.16
Total valid votes			45,549	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+2.88
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Cindy Forster	19,527	44.66	-9.28
	Progressive Conservative	Domenic Ursini	14,048	32.13	+13.25
	Liberal	Benoit Mercier	8,638	19.76	-3.15
	Green	Donna Cridland	1,005	2.30	-1.94
	Libertarian	Donna-Lynne Hamilton	505	1.15
Total valid votes			43,723	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			248	0.56
Turnout			43,971	51.64
Eligible voters			85,141
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-11.27
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Peter Kormos	24,908	53.94
	Liberal	John Mastroianni	10,579	22.91
	Progressive Conservative	Ron Bodner	8,719	18.88
	Green	Mark Grenier	1,973	4.27
Total valid votes			46,179	100.0

Niagara Centre, 1999–2007

Ontario general election, 2003

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Peter Kormos	23,289	49.64	+5.21
	Liberal	Henry D'angela	12,526	26.7	+7.31
	Progressive Conservative	Ann D. Gronski	10,336	22.03	-12.97
	Green	Jordan McArthur	768	1.64

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Peter Kormos	21856	44.43
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Sheehan	17217	35
	Liberal	Maurice Charbonneau	9539	19.39
	Natural Law	Margaret Larrass	382	0.78
	Independent	Lank Makuloluwa	198	0.4

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	26,925	60.1
	Mixed member proportional	17,859	39.9
	Total valid votes	44,784	100.0

External links

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results
• Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Greg Sorbara
• Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results
• CBC: Ontario Votes 2003 - Niagara Centre Riding Profile