Charles Sousa

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2025 Canadian federal election: Mississauga—Lakeshore
Charles Sousa
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Sousa in 2010
Member of Parliament
for Mississauga—Lakeshore
Assumed office
December 12, 2022
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Charles Sousa 34,98052.4+0.95
Conservative Tom Ellard29,35544+6.86
New Democratic Evelyn Butler1,2841.9–3.06
Green Mary Kidnew5930.9–2.29
People's Fahad Rao3340.5–0.68
Independent Carlton Darby1220.2
Marxist–Leninist Anna Di Carlo 1130.2
Total valid votes/expense limit66,781
Total rejected ballots
Turnout66,78170.66
Eligible voters94,505
Source: Elections Canada [62]
Canadian federal by-election, December 12, 2022 : Mississauga—Lakeshore
Resignation of Sven Spengemann
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Charles Sousa 12,76651.45+6.50
Conservative Ron Chhinzer9,21537.14-1.54
New Democratic Julia Kole1,2314.96-4.79
Green Mary Kidnew7923.19+0.94
People's Khaled Al-Sudani2931.18-3.03
Independent Sean Carson480.19
Independent Charles Currie440.18
Independent Patrick Strzalkowski380.15
Independent Peter House310.12
Independent Mélodie Anderson290.12
Rhinoceros Sébastien CoRhino240.10-0.07
Independent Conrad Lukawski230.09
Independent Adam Smith230.09
Independent Stephen Davis210.08
Independent Marie-Hélène LeBel170.07
Independent Eliana Rosenblum170.07
Independent Myriam Beaulieu160.06
Independent Roger Sherwood140.06
Independent John The Engineer Turmel 140.06
Independent Jevin David Carroll120.05
Independent Spencer Rocchi120.05
Independent Tomas Szuchewycz120.05
Independent Julie St-Amand110.04
Independent Mark Dejewski110.04
Independent Julian Selody100.04
Independent Ben Teichman100.04
Independent Mylène Bonneau90.04
Independent Kerri Hildebrandt90.04
Independent Line Bélanger80.03
Independent Alexandra Engering80.03
Independent Samuel Jubinville80.03
Independent Jean-Denis Parent Boudreault70.03
Independent Daniel Gagnon70.03
Independent Darcy Justin Vanderwater60.02
Independent Donovan Eckstrom50.02
Independent Donald Gagnon50.02
Independent Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville30.01
Independent Ysack Dupont20.01
Independent Pascal St-Amand20.01
Independent Alain Lamontagne10.00
Total valid votes24,814
Total rejected ballots1350.54
Turnout24,94927.76
Eligible voters89,863
Liberal hold Swing +4.02
Source: Elections Canada [63] [64]

Provincial elections

2018 Ontario general election : Mississauga—Lakeshore
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Rudy Cuzzetto 22,52042.33+8.88
Liberal Charles Sousa 18,63635.03-15.45
New Democratic Boris Rosolak9,73518.30+7.62
Green Lloyd Jones1,5722.95-0.24
None of the Above Kenny Robinson 3630.68
Libertarian Jay Ward2230.42
Go Vegan Felicia Trigiani1500.28
Total valid votes53,19999.12
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots4740.88
Turnout53,67359.33
Eligible voters90,469
Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal Swing +12.17
Source: Elections Ontario [65]
2014 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Charles Sousa22,19250.76%+0.05%
Progressive Conservative Effie Triantafilopoulos 14,51433.2%-2.89%
New Democratic Boris Rosolak4,64910.63%+0.57%
Green Lloyd Jones1,4183.24%+1.1%
None of the Above Andrew Weber5911.35%-
LTNJames Judson3550.81%-
2011 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Charles Sousa20,37550.7%+3.9%
Progressive Conservative Geoff Janoscik14,49936.1%+1.7%
New Democratic Anju Sikka4,04410.1%+1%
Green Cory Mogk8602.1%-6.7%
Freedom Mark Harris2360.59 
Vegan EnvironmentalPaul Figueiras1650.41 
Total valid votes40,179100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots1780.44
Turnout40,35751.25
Eligible voters78,746
Liberal hold Swing +1.12
Source: Elections Ontario [66]
2007 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Charles Sousa19,19546.8%+3.0%
Progressive Conservative Tim Peterson 14,11434.4%-8.8%
New Democratic Ken Cole3,7459.1%-0.7%
Green David Johnston3,6278.8%+6.4%
Family Coalition Samantha Toteda3450.8%-0.6%

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Ontario provincial government of Kathleen Wynne
Cabinet posts (2)
PredecessorOfficeSuccessor
Harinder Takhar Management Board Chair
2013–2014
Deb Matthews
Dwight Duncan Minister of Finance
2013–2018
Vic Fedeli
Ontario provincial government of Dalton McGuinty
Cabinet posts (2)
PredecessorOfficeSuccessor
Eric Hoskins Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
2011–2012
Also Responsible for the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games
Michael Chan
Peter Fonseca Minister of Labour
2010–2011
Linda Jeffrey