Brampton Centre (federal electoral district)

For the future provincial electoral district, see Brampton Centre (provincial electoral district).

Brampton Centre

Ontario electoral district
Brampton Centre in relation to other Greater Toronto Area districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Shafqat Ali Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	102,270
Electors (2015)	64,148
Area (km²) [2]	43.70
Pop. density (per km²)	2,340.3
Census division(s)	Peel
Census subdivision(s)	Brampton

Brampton Centre (French : Brampton-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that is represented in the House of Commons of Canada. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Brampton riding and in 2013, Elections Canada redistributed 3 ridings in the city of Brampton to bring back Brampton Centre. This was primarily due to large population increases in the Greater Toronto Area, and Peel Region in particular. ^[3]

Geography

The riding was recreated for the federal election held 19 October 2015. The newly carved out Brampton Centre riding was reconstituted by taking portions of Brampton—Springdale, Bramalea—Gore—Malton and a small portion of Mississauga—Brampton South.

The new boundaries start from Hurontario Street and Bovaird Drive West; South on Main Street to the intersection of Vodden Street; East on Vodden Street East to Kennedy Road; Kennedy Road south to Steeles Avenue East; West on Steeles Avenue to Hurontario Street; South on Hurontario Street to Highway 407; East on Highway 407 to Torbram Road; North on Torbram Road to Williams Parkway; West on Williams Parkway to Highway 410; North on Highway 410 to Bovaird Drive East; West on Bovaird Drive East to Main Street. ^[4]

Members of Parliament

The riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Brampton Centre Riding created from Brampton
36th	1997–2000		Sarkis Assadourian	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
Riding dissolved into Brampton—Springdale and Brampton West
Riding re-created from Bramalea—Gore—Malton, Brampton—Springdale and Mississauga—Brampton South
42nd	2015–2019		Ramesh Sangha	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
	2021–2021			Independent
44th	2021–present		Shafqat Ali	Liberal

Election results

2015–present

Graph of election results in Brampton Centre (since 2011 (redistributed), minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election : Brampton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Shafqat Ali	16,189	47.66	+0.45	$93,043.67
	Conservative	Jagdeep Singh	11,038	32.46	+5.56	$36,728.21
	New Democratic	Jim McDowell	5,932	17.46	-2.21	$18,285.43
	Independent	Ronni Shino	824	2.43	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			33,971	98.58	-0.23	$104,033.21
Total rejected ballots			488	1.42	+0.23
Turnout			34,459	54.05	-5.22
Eligible voters			63,751
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.56
Source: Elections Canada [5] [6]

2021 federal election redistributed results [7]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	16,818	48.32
	Conservative	10,935	31.42
	New Democratic	5,493	15.78
	People's	1,253	3.60
	Others	305	0.88

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election : Brampton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Ramesh Sangha	18,771	47.21	-1.43	$84,508.26
	Conservative	Pawanjit Gosal	10,696	26.90	-6.77	$102,185.61
	New Democratic	Jordan Boswell	7,819	19.67	+4.45	$47,671.91
	Green	Pauline Thornham	1,685	4.24	+2.11	$1,108.69
	People's	Baljit Bawa	681	1.71		$40,458.58
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	106	0.27		$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			39,758	98.81
Total rejected ballots			480	1.19
Turnout			40,238	59.27
Eligible voters			67,890
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.67
Source: Elections Canada [8] [9]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election : Brampton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Ramesh Sangha	19,277	48.64	+23.29	$120,004.74
	Conservative	Bal Gosal	13,345	33.67	-12.73	$183,194.43
	New Democratic	Rosemary Keenan	5,993	15.12	-8.08	$33,702.51
	Green	Saul Marquand T. Bottcher	844	2.13	-2.32	$144.64
	Marxist–Leninist	Frank Chilelli	173	0.44	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			39,632	100.00		$199,305.79
Total rejected ballots			264	0.66	–
Turnout			39,896	61.72	–
Eligible voters			64,640
	Liberal notional gain from Conservative		Swing		+18.01
Source: Elections Canada [10] [11]

2011 federal election redistributed results [12]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	16,148	46.41
	Liberal	8,822	25.35
	New Democratic	8,074	23.20
	Green	1,548	4.45
	Others	205	0.59

1997–2000

Graph of election results in Brampton Centre (1996-2003, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election : Brampton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sarkis Assadourian	18,365	50.64	+1.79
	Progressive Conservative	Beryl Ford	9,229	25.45	+10.70
	Alliance	Prabhat Kapur	6,247	17.23	–11.16
	New Democratic	Sue Slean	1,795	4.95	–2.72
	Green	Andrew K. Roy	628	1.73
Total valid votes			36,264	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		–4.46

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election : Brampton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Sarkis Assadourian	18,615	48.85
	Reform	Don Crawford	10,817	28.39
	Progressive Conservative	Sam Hundal	5,621	14.75
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	2,923	7.67
	Marxist–Leninist	André Vachon	127	0.33
Total valid votes			38,103	100.0

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[13]

• Languages : 54.0% English, 9.6% Punjabi, 3.4% Urdu, 3.2% Spanish, 2.6% Tagalog, 2.5% Hindi, 1.6% Portuguese, 1.9% Gujarati, 1.0% Italian, 1.2% Tamil
• Religions: 49.7% Christian (24.3% Catholic, 2.7% Pentecostal, 2.5% Anglican, 2.0% United Church, 1.2% Christian Orthodox, 1.0% Baptist, 16.0% Other), 12.5% Hindu, 10.3% Sikh, 9.5% Muslim, 1.3% Buddhist, 16.1% None
• Median income: $37,200 (2020)
• Average income: $43,680 (2020)

Panethnic groups in Brampton Centre (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021 [14]		2016 [15]		2011 [16]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
South Asian	33,555	32.32%	26,630	26.17%	26,905	26.13%
European [lower-alpha 1]	32,475	31.28%	39,705	39.02%	46,510	45.16%
African	15,845	15.26%	15,570	15.3%	12,450	12.09%
Southeast Asian [lower-alpha 2]	7,120	6.86%	6,575	6.46%	5,535	5.37%
Latin American	4,675	4.5%	3,925	3.86%	3,395	3.3%
Middle Eastern [lower-alpha 3]	2,455	2.36%	1,985	1.95%	1,370	1.33%
East Asian [lower-alpha 4]	1,315	1.27%	1,890	1.86%	2,145	2.08%
Indigenous	1,075	1.04%	1,165	1.14%	1,130	1.1%
Other/multiracial [lower-alpha 5]	5,325	5.13%	4,305	4.23%	3,545	3.44%
Total responses	103,835	99.31%	101,755	99.5%	102,980	99.86%
Total population	104,557	100%	102,270	100%	103,122	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Notes

1. Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
2. Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
3. Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
4. Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
5. Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2017
2. Statistics Canada: 2017
3. "Brampton Centre – Commission's Report - Redistribution Federal Electoral Districts".
4. "Brampton Centre".
5. "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada . Retrieved September 2, 2021.
6. "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada . Retrieved July 19, 2022.
7. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada . Retrieved April 9, 2024.
8. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
9. "Official Voting Results" . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
10. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Brampton Centre, 30 September 2015
11. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
12. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
13. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Brampton Centre [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
14. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
15. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
16. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved December 25, 2023.

External links

• Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
• http://www.elections.ca/res/cir/maps2/mapprov.asp?map=35008&lang=e

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