 Ontario electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| District created | 1967 |
| District abolished | 1996 |
| First contested | 1967 |
| Last contested | 1995 |
Kitchener was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It existed from 1967 to 1999, when it was abolished when ridings were redistributed to match their federal counterpart. It consisted of the city of Kitchener, Ontario.
Liberal Jim Breithaupt was the longest serving former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Kitchener since Canadian Confederation in 1867. [1] Liberal David R. Cooke held the seat for two terms between 1985 and 1990. [2] Will Ferguson took the seat in Bob Rae's New Democratic Party landslide election in 1990. [3] Ferguson resigned midterm and Progressive Conservative Wayne Wettlaufer won the 1994 by-election and held the seat until 1999 when the seat was redistributed into Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Waterloo. Wettlaufer lost his seat in the provincial election of 2003. [4]
| Kitchener | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created out of Waterloo North and Waterloo South | ||||
| 28th | 1967–1971 | Jim Breithaupt | Liberal | |
| 29th | 1971–1975 | |||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | |||
| 31st | 1977–1981 | |||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | David R. Cooke | Liberal | |
| 34th | 1987–1990 | |||
| 33rd | 1990–1994 | Will Ferguson | New Democratic | |
| 33rd | 1994–1995 | Wayne Wettlaufer | Progressive Conservative | |
| 34th | 1995–1999 | |||
| Riding dissolved into Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Waterloo | ||||
| Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Breithaupt | Liberal | 12,592 |
| Morley Rosenberg | PC | 7,982 |
| Ian MacFarlane | NDP | 4,126 |
| Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| David Cooke | Liberal | 14,066 |
| Don Travers | PC | 9,684 |
| Tim Little | NDP | 5,654 |
| Ed Halbach | Independent Humanist | 453 |
| Albert Norris | Independent | 157 |
| Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Ferguson | NDP | 15,750 | 46.8% |
| David Cooke | Liberal | 9,731 | 28.9% |
| Ian Matthew | PC | 6,157 | 18.3% |
| John Meenan | FCP | 2,002 | 6.0% |
| Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Wayne Wettlaufer | PC | 13,374 |
| Bryan Stortz | Liberal | 9,992 |
| Sandi Ellis | NDP | 6,998 |
| Lou Reitzel | FCP | 2,111 |
| Bob Oberholtzer | Independent | 612 |
| Frank Kerek | Independent | 223 |
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