Cambridge (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district, see Cambridge (provincial electoral district).

Cambridge

Ontario electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Connie Cody Conservative
District created	1976
First contested	1979
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	115,463
Electors (2015)	82,103
Area (km²) [1]	373
Pop. density (per km²)	309.6
Census division(s)	Brant, Waterloo
Census subdivision(s)	Cambridge (part), North Dumfries

Cambridge is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979.

Geography

The district consists of most of the city of Cambridge, Ontario (the portion of it south of Highway 401), the entirety of the Township of North Dumfries, Ontario, and a portion of northern Brant County. ^[2]

History

The federal electoral district was created in 1976 and consisted of the city of Cambridge and the Township of North Dumfries. In 1987, part of the city of Kitchener was added to the district. In 1996, the boundaries were redrawn again to include a slightly different section of Kitchener. The current boundaries, which are the same as the original definition and contain no parts of Kitchener, were defined in 2003.

This riding lost territory to Kitchener South—Hespeler and gained some territory from Brant during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Following the 2022 electoral redistribution, Cambridge will lose all of its territory in the County of Brant to Flamborough—Glanbrook—Brant North.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[3]

Languages: 75.5% English, 4.2% Portuguese, 2.1% Punjabi, 1.6% Urdu, 1.4% Gujarati, 1.2% Spanish, 1.1% French

Religions: 55.6% Christian (28.9% Catholic, 4.4% Anglican, 3.7% United Church, 2.0% Presbyterian, 1.9% Baptist, 1.2% Lutheran, 1.2% Pentecostal, 1.1% Christian Orthodox, 11.2% other), 6.4% Muslim, 2.5% Hindu, 2.5% Sikh, 31.6% none

Median income: $41,600 (2020)

Average income: $51,650 (2020)

Panethnic groups in Cambridge (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021 [4]		2016 [5]		2011 [6]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European [a]	91,825	76.47%	95,110	83.68%	95,365	86.42%
South Asian	12,690	10.57%	6,485	5.71%	5,105	4.63%
African	3,975	3.31%	2,735	2.41%	1,975	1.79%
Southeast Asian [b]	2,960	2.47%	2,090	1.84%	1,800	1.63%
Indigenous	2,200	1.83%	2,305	2.03%	1,900	1.72%
Latin American	1,890	1.57%	1,295	1.14%	1,085	0.98%
Middle Eastern [c]	1,710	1.42%	1,155	1.02%	1,015	0.92%
East Asian [d]	1,420	1.18%	1,480	1.3%	1,315	1.19%
Other/multiracial [e]	1,400	1.17%	995	0.88%	795	0.72%
Total responses	120,075	98.99%	113,660	98.44%	110,355	98.8%
Total population	121,301	100%	115,463	100%	111,693	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

2023 representation

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[7]

Languages: 78.3% English, 4.3% Portuguese, 2.1% Punjabi, 1.6% Urdu, 1.6% French, 1.5% Gujarati, 1.2% Spanish
Race: 76.2% White, 10.7% South Asian, 3.3% Black, 1.8% Indigenous, 1.6% Latin American, 1.3% Southeast Asian, 1.2% Filipino, 1.0% Arab
Religions: 55.5% Christian (29.1% Catholic, 4.4% Anglican, 3.5% United Church, 2.0% Presbyterian, 1.9% Baptist, 1.2% Pentecostal, 1.2% Lutheran, 1.1% Christian Orthodox, 11.1% other), 6.5% Muslim, 2.6% Sikh, 2.5% Hindu, 31.5% none
Median income: $41,600 (2020)
Average income: $51,400 (2020)

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Cambridge Riding created from Waterloo—Cambridge and Wellington
31st	1979–1980		Chris Speyer	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Pat Sobeski
35th	1993–1997		Janko Peric	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Gary Goodyear	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019		Bryan May	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present		Connie Cody	Conservative

Election results

Graph of election results in Cambridge (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Connie Cody	31,752	48.58	+14.44
	Liberal	Bryan May	30,278	46.32	+8.08
	New Democratic	José de Lima	2,174	3.33	–13.76
	Green	Lux Burgess	1,051	1.61	–1.78
	Marxist–Leninist	Manuel Couto	109	0.17	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			65,364	69.82
Eligible voters			93,618
	Conservative notional gain from Liberal		Swing		+3.18
Source: Elections Canada [8] [9]

2021 federal election redistributed results [10]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	20,599	38.24
	Conservative	18,389	34.14
	New Democratic	9,204	17.09
	People's	3,853	7.15
	Green	1,825	3.39

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bryan May	20,866	38.0	-1.5	$81,180.89
	Conservative	Connie Cody	18,876	34.4	+4.4	$48,138.99
	New Democratic	Lorne Bruce	9,319	17.0	-2.3	$12,300.84
	People's	Maggie Segounis	3,931	7.2	+4.0	$3,523.25
	Green	Michele Braniff	1,860	3.4	-4.1	$2,040.04
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,852	99.4	-0.06	$118,345.46
Total rejected ballots			335	0.6
Turnout			55,187	61.3
Eligible voters			90,092
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.0
Source: Elections Canada [11] [12]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bryan May	22,903	39.53	-3.64	$79,674.15
	Conservative	Sunny Attwal	17,409	30.04	-8.6	none listed
	New Democratic	Scott Hamilton	11,177	19.29	+5.42	$23,049.68
	Green	Michele Braniff	4,343	7.5	+4.27	$7,369.06
	People's	David Haskell	1,872	3.23	–	$7,178.82
	Veterans Coalition	George McMorrow	162	0.28	–	$0.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Manuel Couto	76	0.13	-0.07	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			57,942	100.0
Total rejected ballots			385
Turnout			58,327	64.9
Eligible voters			89,914
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.48
Source: Elections Canada [13] [14]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bryan May	23,024	43.17	+27.72	$57,941.86
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	20,613	38.65	-14.10	$73,286.38
	New Democratic	Bobbi Stewart	7,397	13.87	-14.04	$10,151.06
	Green	Michele Braniff	1,723	3.23	-0.37	$1,074.94
	Independent	Lee Sperduti	474	0.89	–	$9,550.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Manuel Couto	108	0.20		–
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,339	100.00		$219,622.08
Total rejected ballots			227	0.42	–
Turnout			53,566	64.60	–
Eligible voters			82,916
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+20.91
Source: Elections Canada [15] [16]

2011 federal election redistributed results [17]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	23,644	52.74
	New Democratic	12,512	27.91
	Liberal	6,923	15.44
	Green	1,615	3.60
	Others	134	0.30

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	29,394	53.40	+4.78	$86,966.51
	New Democratic	Susan Galvao	15,238	27.68	+8.07	$13,379.43
	Liberal	Bryan May	8,285	15.05	-8.34	$26,622.63
	Green	Jacques Malette	1,978	3.59	-4.76	$440.18
	Marxist–Leninist	Manuel Couto	153	0.28	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,048	100.00	$96,491.18
Total rejected ballots			255	0.46	+0.04
Turnout			55,303	59.25	+3.33
Eligible voters			93,335	–	–

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	24,895	48.62	+4.78	$83,772
	Liberal	Gord Zeilstra	11,977	23.39	-10.21	$8,316
	New Democratic	Max Lombardi	10,044	19.61	+2.67	$12,035
	Green	Scott Cosman	4,279	8.35	+3.13	$1,614
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,195	100.00	$93,018
Total rejected ballots			217	0.42	+0.06
Turnout			51,412	55.92	-9.05

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	25,337	43.84	+5.9
	Liberal	Janko Peric	19,419	33.60	−3.1
	New Democratic	Donna Reid	9,794	16.94	−3.3
	Green	Gareth White	3,017	5.22	+0.2
	Canadian Action	David Pelly	217	0.37
Total valid votes			57,784	100.00
Total rejected ballots			207	0.36
Turnout			57,991	64.97

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	19,123
	Liberal	Janko Peric	18,899
	New Democratic	Gary Price	10,392
	Green	Gareth White	2,506
	Christian Heritage	John Gots	395
	Independent	John Oprea	134
	Independent	Alec Gryc	114
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Electors on lists

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Janko Peric	22,148	46.6	+9.9
	Alliance	Reg Petersen	14,915	31.4	+9.0
	Progressive Conservative	John Housser	5,988	12.6	-6.7
	New Democratic	Pam Wolf	4,111	8.6	-11.8
	Natural Law	Thomas Mitchell	210	0.4
	Independent	John Gots	160	0.3
Total valid votes			47,532	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Janko Peric	17,673	36.74	−2.52	$47,605
	Reform	Bill Donaldson	10,767	22.38	−11.15	$57,325
	New Democratic	Mike Farnan	9,813	20.40	+15.11	$53,588
	Progressive Conservative	Larry Olney	9,299	19.33	+1.99	$48,139
	Independent	John H. Long	311	0.65		$0
	Independent	Jim Remnant	237	0.49		$0
Total valid votes			48,100	100.00
Total rejected ballots			254
Turnout			48,354	64.77	−1.75
Electors on the lists			74,659
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Janko Peric	21,997	39.1	+12.3
	Reform	Reg Petersen	18,932	33.7
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Sobeski	9,776	17.4	-23.0
	New Democratic	Bill McBain	2,962	5.3	-22.8
	National	Ron Cooper	1,804	3.2
	Christian Heritage	Michael Picard	407	0.7	-3.8
	Natural Law	Thomas Mitchell	370	0.7
Total valid votes			56,248	100.0

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Sobeski	20,578	40.4	-20.2
	New Democratic	Bruce Davidson	14,298	28.1	+3.9
	Liberal	Ron Cooper	13,639	26.8	+12.1
	Christian Heritage	Rien Vanden Enden	2,305	4.5
	Independent	Shafiq Hudda	141	0.3
Total valid votes			50,961	100.0

v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Speyer	22,963	60.6	+21.2
	New Democratic	Bill McBain	9,171	24.2	-7.0
	Liberal	Lyn Johnston	5,545	14.6	-14.3
	Rhinoceros	John Jagiellowicz	103	0.3
	Commonwealth of Canada	Peter Harz	112	0.3
Total valid votes			37,894	100.0

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Speyer	14,314	39.4	-4.2
	New Democratic	Mike Farnan	11,346	31.2	+1.7
	Liberal	David Charlton	10,531	29.0	+2.6
	Social Credit	Regent Gervais	103	0.3	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Anna Di Carlo	82	0.2	0.0
Total valid votes			36,376	100.0
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v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Speyer	16,337	43.5
	New Democratic	Marc Sommerville	11,085	29.5
	Liberal	Lee Palvetzian	9,903	26.4
	Social Credit	Regent Gervais	150	0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Anna Di Carlo	78	0.2
Total valid votes			37,553	100.0

See also

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

References

• "Cambridge (federal electoral district) (Code 35011) Census Profile". 2011 census . Government of Canada - Statistics Canada . Retrieved March 2, 2012.
• History of Federal Ridings since 1867 (Cambridge)
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• 2001 Federal Electoral District Profile (Cambridge)
• Campaign expense data from Elections 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.

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4. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
5. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
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9. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. April 29, 2025. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
10. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada . Retrieved April 9, 2024.
11. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
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13. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
14. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
15. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Cambridge, 30 September 2015
16. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
17. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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