Stoney Creek (electoral district)

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Stoney Creek
Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created1996
District abolished2003
First contested 1997
Last contested 2000

Stoney Creek was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2003 and in the legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007. It was located in the Hamilton area of Southern Ontario. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Hamilton—Wentworth and Lincoln ridings.

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It consisted of the City of Stoney Creek, the Township of Glanbrook, and the southeast part of the City of Hamilton, and the Town of Grimsby.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Hamilton Mountain and Niagara West—Glanbrook ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Hamilton—Wentworth
and Lincoln
36th  1997–2000   Tony Valeri Liberal
37th  2000–2004
Riding dissolved into Hamilton East—Stoney Creek,
Hamilton Mountain and Niagara West—Glanbrook

Federal election results

1997 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Tony Valeri 23,750
Reform Clay Downes10,210
Progressive Conservative Angie Tomasic9,440
New Democratic Peter Cassidy3,392
Christian Heritage Angela M. Braun472
Natural Law Cynthia Marchand261
2000 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Tony Valeri 24,150
Alliance Doug Conley13,354
Progressive Conservative Grant Howell6,102
New Democratic Mark Davies3,083
Canadian Action Phil Rose450
Marxist–Leninist Paul Lane137

Provincial election results

2003 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Jennifer Mossop 24,75148.93+8.94
Progressive Conservative Brad Clark 19,51738.58-6.98
New Democratic Lorrie Mckibbon5,41910.71+0.26
Green Richard Safka8981.78
1999 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Brad Clark 21,46245.56
Liberal Chris Phillips18,84039.99
New Democratic Robert Barlow4,92210.45
Family Coalition Philip Lees1,2062.56
Independent Paul Lane3500.74
Natural Law Sue Marchand3300.7

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