2023 Hamilton Centre provincial by-election

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2023 Hamilton Centre provincial by-election
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  2022 March 16, 2023 (2023-03-16)

Riding of Hamilton Centre
Turnout21.97%
 First partySecond party
  Sarah Jama in 2018 (cropped).jpg Dierdre Pike April 2022-001 (cropped).jpg
Candidate Sarah Jama Deirdre Pike
Party New Democratic Liberal
Popular vote9,4773,542
Percentage54.28%20.07%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.98 pp Increase2.svg 7.04 pp

 Third partyFourth party
 
CandidatePete WiesnerLucia Iannantuono
Party Progressive Conservative Green
Popular vote2,6901,206
Percentage15.52%6.93%
SwingDecrease2.svg0.95%Decrease2.svg1.84 pp

MPP before election

Andrea Horwath
New Democratic

Elected MPP

Sarah Jama
New Democratic

Location of Hamilton Centre in the urban area of Hamilton. Ontario 2018 Hamilton Centre.svg
Location of Hamilton Centre in the urban area of Hamilton.

The 2023 Hamilton Centre provincial by-election was held on March 16, 2023. [1] The election was triggered by the resignation of Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) MPP Andrea Horwath. [2] ONDP candidate Sarah Jama won the election, retaining the seat for the party. [3]

Contents

Background

Constituency profile

The Hamilton Centre constituency consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Ottawa Street, west along the Niagara Escarpment, southwest along James Mountain Road, south along West 5th Street, west along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour. [4]

Trigger and campaign

On July 26, 2022, incumbent MPP Andrea Horwath announced her candidacy for mayor of Hamilton, [5] and resigned her seat in the provincial legislature on August 15, 2022. [2] The ONDP was considered favoured to retain the seat in the days leading up to the March 2023 election. [6]

Candidates

Result

Ontario provincial by-election, Hamilton Centre
Resignation of Andrea Horwath
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Sarah Jama 9,56054.28-2.98
Liberal Deirdre Pike3,53520.07+7.04
Progressive Conservative Pete Wiesner2,73315.52-0.95
Green Lucia Iannantuono1,2206.93-1.84
New Blue Lee Weiss Vassor1480.84-0.82
Electoral ReformPeter House1210.69
Libertarian Mark Snow1050.60
Independent Matthew Lingard1020.58
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan510.29-0.21
Independent John Turmel 370.21
Total valid votes17,612
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots
Turnout21.97
Eligible voters80,172
New Democratic hold Swing -5.01
Source: Elections Ontario [14]

Previous result

2022 Ontario general election : Hamilton Centre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Andrea Horwath 16,69057.26-7.99
Progressive Conservative Sarah Bokhari4,80016.47+0.80
Liberal Ekaterini Dimakis3,79913.03+2.15
Green Sandy Crawley2,5548.76+3.02
New Blue John Chroust4831.66
Ontario Party Brad Peace4511.55
Communist Nigel Cheriyan2250.77+0.41
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan1450.50
Total valid votes 29,147 99.01+0.19
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots2910.99-0.19
Turnout29,43837.94-10.97
Eligible voters77,599
New Democratic hold Swing -4.40
Source: Elections Ontario [15]

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