Niagara Centre (provincial electoral district)

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Niagara Centre
Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario electoral district
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Niagara Centre in relation to southern Ontario ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP
 
 		 
Jeff Burch
New Democratic
District created2006
First contested 2007
Last contested 2022
Demographics
Population (2016)109,070
Electors (2018)88,287
Area (km²)490
Pop. density (per km²)222.6
Census division(s) Niagara
Census subdivision(s) Welland, Thorold, Port Colborne, St. Catharines

Niagara Centre (renamed to Welland from 2006 to 2018) is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented from 1867 until 1977 and again since 2007 (under different boundaries) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Its population in 2006 was 112,875.

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A new riding of Niagara Centre was created before the 1999 election from small parts of the Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock ridings, and almost all of the Welland—Thorold riding. The current electoral district was created in 2003: 74.9% of the riding came from Niagara Centre riding, 22.5% from Erie—Lincoln and 2.7% from Niagara Falls riding. The name was changed to Welland during redistricting in 2006. In 2018, the name was changed back to Niagara Centre.

Geography

From 1967 to 1975, the southern part of the riding was covered by the Welland South district.

The pre-2018 Welland riding consisted of the cities of Welland, Thorold, Port Colborne, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and east along Glendale Avenue to the eastern city limit. [1]

Members of Provincial Parliament

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
Welland
1st  1867–1871   William Beatty Liberal
2nd  1871–1874 James Currie
3rd  1875–1879
4th  1879–1883 Daniel Near
5th  1883–1886 James E. Morin
6th  1886–1890
7th  1890–1894   William McCleary Conservative
8th  1894–1898   William Manley German Liberal
9th  1898–1900
 1900–1902 John Franklin Gross
10th  1902–1904
11th  1905–1908   Evan Eugene Fraser Conservative
12th  1908–1911
13th  1911–1914
14th  1914–1919 Donald Sharpe
15th  1919–1923   Robert Cooper Liberal
16th  1923–1926   Marshall Vaughan Conservative
17th  1926–1929
18th  1929–1934
19th  1934–1937   Edward James Anderson Liberal
20th  1937–1943
21st  1943–1945   Howard Elis Brown Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd  1945–1948   Thomas Henry Lewis Progressive Conservative
23rd  1948–1951   Harold William Walker Liberal
24th  1951–1955   Ellis Morningstar Progressive Conservative
25th  1955–1959
26th  1959–1963
27th  1963–1967
28th  1967–1971
29th  1971–1975
30th  1975–1977   Mel Swart New Democratic
Welland—Thorold
31st  1977–1981   Mel Swart New Democratic
32nd  1981–1985
33rd  1985–1987
34th  1987–1988
 1988–1990 Peter Kormos
35th  1990–1995
36th  1995–1999
Niagara Centre
Created from Welland—Thorold, Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock
37th  1999–2003   Peter Kormos New Democratic
38th  2003–2007
Welland
39th  2007–2011   Peter Kormos New Democratic
40th  2011–2014 Cindy Forster
41st  2014–2018
Niagara Centre
42nd  2018–2022   Jeff Burch New Democratic
43rd  2022–present

Source: Legislative Assembly of Ontario [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Election results

Niagara Centre, 2018–

2022 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Jeff Burch 16,36039.70−4.53
Progressive Conservative Fred Davies15,50637.63+0.12
Liberal Terry Flynn5,49213.33+1.50
Green Michelle McArthur1,8654.53+0.84
New Blue Gary Dumelie1,1482.79 
Ontario Party Vincent Gircys8372.03 
Total valid votes41,208100.0  
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots194
Turnout41,40243.37
Eligible voters94,966
New Democratic hold Swing −2.32
Source(s)
  • "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18.
  • "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.
2018 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Jeff Burch 21,61844.23−3.65
Progressive Conservative April Jeffs18,33337.51+10.87
Liberal Benoit Mercier5,77911.82−8.60
Green Joe Dias1,8033.69−0.34
None of the Above Joe Crawford6231.27
Libertarian Patrick Pietruszko3680.75−0.27
Independent Steve Soos2170.44
People's Political Party Dario Smagata-Bryan1330.27
Total valid votes 48,874 98.63
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots6801.37
Turnout49,55456.13
Eligible voters88,287
New Democratic hold Swing −7.26
Source: Elections Ontario [22]
2014 general election redistributed results [23]
PartyVote %
  New Democratic 20,33447.88
  Progressive Conservative 11,31326.64
  Liberal 8,67420.42
  Green 1,7134.03
  Libertarian 4351.02

Welland, 2007–2018

2014 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Cindy Forster 21,32646.79+2.06
Progressive Conservative Frank Campion12,93328.37−3.71
Liberal Benoit Mercier9,06019.88−0.01
Green Donna Cridland1,8033.96+1.81
Libertarian Andrea J. Murik4601.01−0.16
Total valid votes45,582100.0  
New Democratic hold Swing +2.88
Source: Elections Ontario [24]
2011 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Cindy Forster 19,52744.66−9.28
Progressive Conservative Domenic Ursini14,04832.13+13.25
Liberal Benoit Mercier8,63819.76−3.15
Green Donna Cridland1,0052.30−1.94
Libertarian Donna-Lynne Hamilton5051.15 
Total valid votes43,723100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots2480.56
Turnout43,97151.64
Eligible voters85,141
New Democratic hold Swing −11.27
Source: Elections Ontario [25]
2007 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic Peter Kormos 24,91053.94
Liberal John Mastroianni10,58022.91
Progressive Conservative Ron Bodner8,72218.88
Green Mark Grenier1,9734.27
Total valid votes 46,185 100.0
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots3470.75
Turnout46,53255.29
Eligible voters84,161
Source: Elections Ontario [26] [27]

Niagara Centre, 1999–2007

2003 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Peter Kormos 23,28949.64+5.21
Liberal Henry D'Angela12,52626.7+7.31
Progressive Conservative Ann D. Gronski10,33622.03−12.97
Green Jordan McArthur7681.64
Source: Elections Ontario [28]
1999 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic Peter Kormos 21,85644.43
Progressive Conservative Frank Sheehan17,21735
Liberal Maurice Charbonneau9,53919.39
Natural Law Margaret Larrass3820.78
Independent Lank Makuloluwa1980.4
Source: Elections Ontario [28]

Welland (1867–1977)

1871 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal James Currie 1,18253.12−1.10
Liberal William Beatty 1,04346.88−7.34
Turnout2,22561.08−7.44
Eligible voters3,643
Liberal hold Swing +3.12
Source: Elections Ontario [29]
1867 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal William Beatty 1,29854.22
Conservative E.A. Pew1,09645.78
Total valid votes2,39468.52
Eligible voters3,494
Liberal pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario [30]

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
SideVotes%
First Past the Post26,92560.1
Mixed member proportional17,85939.9
Total valid votes44,784100.0

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  4. ↑ "Daniel Near". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
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