Matthew Green (Canadian politician)

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2025 Canadian federal election: Hamilton Centre
Matthew Green
Member of Parliament
for Hamilton Centre
In office
October 21, 2019 March 23, 2025
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Aslam Rana 21,45837.64+10.91
Conservative Hayden Lawrence17,06629.94+13.42
New Democratic Matthew Green 16,57729.08–17.88
Green Sandy Crawley8181.44–1.22
People's David Speicher5871.03–5.54
No affiliationCarla Green2150.38N/A
Rhinoceros Cody Chenier1910.34N/A
No affiliationMichael Loomans900.16N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout57,00262.44
Eligible voters91,294
Liberal notional gain from New Democratic Swing –1.26
Source: Elections Canada [38] [39]
2021 Canadian federal election : Hamilton Centre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Matthew Green 20,10548.70+2.54$59,357.46
Liberal Margaret Bennett10,94126.50-2.17$33,346.62
Conservative Fabian Grenning6,20915.04+0.67none listed
People's Kevin Barber2,6376.39+4.50$0.00
Green Avra Caroline Weinstein1,1052.68-4.96$3,627.12
Communist Nigel Cheriyan1840.45$0.00
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan990.24+0.05$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit41,28099.16$120,288.26
Total rejected ballots3510.84
Turnout41,63155.72-3.36
Eligible voters74,721
New Democratic hold Swing +2.35
Source: Elections Canada [40] [41]
2019 Canadian federal election : Hamilton Centre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Matthew Green 20,36846.16+0.60$71,015.33
Liberal Jasper Kujavsky12,65128.67-4.72$79,469.65
Conservative Monica Ciriello 6,34114.37-0.28$13,186.90
Green Jason Lopez3,3707.64+3.31none listed
People's Melina Mamone8331.89none listed
Christian Heritage Gary Duyzer1820.41none listed
Independent Tony Lemma1580.36$2,716.24
Independent Edward Graydon1340.30none listed
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan850.19none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit44,12299.09
Total rejected ballots4050.91+0.26
Turnout44,52759.08-0.34
Eligible voters75,371
New Democratic hold Swing +2.66
Source: Elections Canada [42] [43]
Candidates for the October 27, 2014 Hamilton, Ontario Ward Three Councillor Election
CandidatePopular voteExpenditures
Votes %±%
Matthew Green2,85240.72%$31,380.20
Ralph Agostino1,22917.55%$22,900.91
Drina Omazic82511.78%$27,000.76
Mark DiMillo5257.50%−2.63%n/a1
Sean Gibson3615.15%−8.53%n/a1
Tim Simmons3344.77%$15,087.14
Bob Assadourian3304.71%$26,412.29
Brian Kelly1722.46%$5,670.73
Maria Anastasiou931.33%n/a1
Byron Wayne Millette731.04%n/a1
Eva John550.79%n/a1
Carlos Pinho510.73%n/a1
Victor Mejia420.60%n/a1
Bernie Szajkowski410.59%$0
Jol Hess210.30%n/a1
Total votes7,11329.59%−1.41
Registered voters24,035100%
1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
2018 Municipal election
Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: City of Hamilton, "Nominated Candidates" Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine

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