Sudbury (federal electoral district)

For the provincial riding, see Sudbury (provincial electoral district).

Sudbury

Ontario electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Viviane Lapointe Liberal
District created	1947
First contested	1949
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021) [1]	95,537
Electors (2021)	75,123
Area (km²) [2]	843.58
Pop. density (per km²)	113.3
Census division(s)	Greater Sudbury
Census subdivision(s)	Greater Sudbury (part)

Sudbury is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949. The district is one of two serving the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario.

Geography

Sudbury electoral district consists of the part of the City of Greater Sudbury bounded on the west and south by the Greater Sudbury city limits, and on the north and east by a line drawn from the western city limit of Greater Sudbury east along the northern limit of the former Town of Walden, north, east and south along the limits of the former City of Sudbury, west along Highway 69 and Regent Street, south along Long Lake Road, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Broder, southwest along Kelly Lake, and south along the eastern limit of the former Town of Walden to the southern city limit of Greater Sudbury.

History

Sudbury electoral district was created in 1947 from part of the Nipissing riding. It consisted initially of the city of Sudbury and a part of the territorial district of Sudbury.

In 1952, the boundaries were narrowed significantly to include only the city of Sudbury, the geographic township of McKim and the town of Copper Cliff. The rest of the original Sudbury riding was incorporated into the new riding of Nickel Belt.

In 1976, Sudbury's growth in population led the riding to shrink further. It now included only the northern half of the city; the city's southern half was incorporated into Nickel Belt.

In 1996, it was redefined as the part of the City of Sudbury north of a line drawn from east to west along Highway 69, south along Long Lake Road, and west along the north boundary of the geographic Township of Broder.

In 2003, the riding expanded geographically to include the former town of Walden, now part of the city of Greater Sudbury. The remainder of the city continues to be part of the Nickel Belt riding.

This riding was left unchanged after the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding will gain Nickel Centre, Wanup and the remainder of the former city of Sudbury from Nickel Belt, and will loses all of its territory west of Highway 144 to the new riding of Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt. These changes will come into effect upon the calling of the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census ^[3]

Ethnic groups: 77.9% White, 12.3% Indigenous, 3.8% Black, 2.8% South Asian

Languages: 70.0% English, 16.6% French, 1.7% Italian

Religions: 60.0% Christian (41.1% Catholic, 3.9% United Church, 2.9% Anglican, 1.4% Lutheran, 1.2% Pentecostal, 1.1% Baptist, 8.4% Other), 1.4% Muslim, 1.2% Hindu, 35.3% None

Median income: $42,400 (2020)

Average income: $53,450 (2020)

Riding associations

Riding associations are the local branches of political parties:

Party		Association name	President	HQ city
	Conservative	Sudbury Conservative Association	Daran Moxam	Greater Sudbury
	Liberal	Sudbury Federal Liberal Association	Janet Gasparini	Greater Sudbury
	New Democratic	Sudbury Federal NDP Riding Association	Darius Garneau	Greater Sudbury
	People's	Sudbury-Nickel Belt-Muskoka PPC Association	Stewart A. Sinclair	West Nipissing

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Sudbury Riding created from Nipissing
21st	1949–1953		Léo Gauthier	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957		Rodger Mitchell
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1967
	1967–1968		Bud Germa	New Democratic
28th	1968–1972		James Jerome	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984		Doug Frith
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Diane Marleau
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011		Glenn Thibeault	New Democratic
41st	2011–2015
	2015–2015		Vacant
42nd	2015–2019		Paul Lefebvre	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025		Viviane Lapointe
45th	2025–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Sudbury (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Viviane Lapointe	31,329	51.79	+16.81
	Conservative	Ian Symington	23,748	39.25	+11.43
	New Democratic	Nadia Verrelli	4,650	7.69	–21.21
	People's	Nicholas Bonderoff	770	1.27	–4.85
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			60,497	68.17
Eligible voters			88,742
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+2.69
Source: Elections Canada [4] [5]

2021 federal election redistributed results [6]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	19,385	34.98
	New Democratic	16,015	28.90
	Conservative	15,414	27.82
	People's	3,389	6.12
	Green	1,099	1.98
	Others	109	0.20

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Viviane Lapointe	15,871	34.5	-6.4	$81,822.79
	New Democratic	Nadia Verrelli	13,569	29.5	+0.6	$82,941.50
	Conservative	Ian Symington	12,747	27.7	+7.1	$89,028.04
	People's	Colette Andréa Methé	2,735	5.9	+4.1	$3,349.70
	Green	David Robert Robinson	940	2.0	-4.7	$0.00
	Independent	J. David Popescu	111	0.2	+0.05	$180.22
Total valid votes			45,973
Total rejected ballots			313
Turnout			46,286	62.18
Eligible voters			74,386
Source: Elections Canada [7]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Lefebvre	19,643	40.94	-6.48	$66,620.57
	New Democratic	Beth Mairs	13,885	28.94	+1.15	$25,924.07
	Conservative	Pierre St-Amant	9,864	20.56	-0.54	$20,356.06
	Green	Bill Crumplin	3,225	6.72	+3.68	$13,223.85
	People's	Sean Paterson	873	1.82	–	none listed
	Animal Protection	Chanel Lalonde	282	0.59	–	none listed
	Independent	Charlene Sylvestre	135	0.28	–	none listed
	Independent	J. David Popescu	70	0.15	-0.02	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,977	99.24
Total rejected ballots			317	0.66	+0.24
Turnout			48,294	65.36	-3.86
Eligible voters			75,035
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.81
Source: Elections Canada [8] [9]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Lefebvre	23,534	47.42	+29.43	$112,165.16
	New Democratic	Paul Loewenberg	13,793	27.79	-22.13	$95,385.84
	Conservative	Fred Slade	10,473	21.10	-7.25	$192,788.16
	Green	David Robinson	1,509	3.04	+0.05	$4,970.15
	Independent	Jean-Raymond Audet	134	0.27	–	–
	Communist	Elizabeth Rowley	102	0.21	–	–
	Independent	J. David Popescu	84	0.17	-0.09	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,629	99.58		$204,934.28
Total rejected ballots			209	0.42	–
Turnout			49,838	69.22	–
Eligible voters			73,050
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+34.77
Source: Elections Canada [10] [11]

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Glenn Thibeault	22,684	49.92	+14.77	–
	Conservative	Fred Slade	12,881	28.35	+2.56	–
	Liberal	Carol Hartman	8,172	17.98	-12.22	–
	Green	Frederick Twilley	1,359	2.99	-4.76	–
	First Peoples National	Will Morin	229	0.50	-0.42	–
	Independent	David Popescu	116	0.26	+0.07	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,441	100.00
Total rejected ballots			180	0.39	-0.05
Turnout			45,621	63.89	+5.38
Eligible voters			71,409	–	–

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Glenn Thibeault	15,094	35.15	+3.20	$71,329
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	12,969	30.20	−11.37	$50,177
	Conservative	Gerry Labelle	11,073	25.79	+4.11	$85,730
	Green	Gordon Harris	3,330	7.75	+5.02	$8,704
	First Peoples National	Will Morin	397	0.92		$0
	Independent	David Popescu	80	0.19	+0.08	$148
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,943	100.00	$82,461
Total rejected ballots			192	0.45	−0.03
Turnout			43,135	58.51	−7.48
Electors on the lists			73,724
Note: italicized expenditure totals refer to data that has not yet been finalized by Elections Canada.

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	19,809	41.57	−2.62	$78,232
	New Democratic	Gerry McIntaggart	15,225	31.95	+2.09	$38,386
	Conservative	Kevin Serviss	10,332	21.68	+0.63	$73,294
	Green	Joey Methé	1,301	2.73	−1.94	$420
	Progressive Canadian	Stephen L. Butcher	782	1.64	–	$365
	Marxist–Leninist	Dave Starbuck	77	0.16	−0.07
	Communist	Sam Hammond	70	0.15		$280
	Independent	David Popescu	54	0.11	–	$365
Total valid votes			47,650	100.00
Total rejected ballots			228	0.48	−0.07
Turnout			47,878	65.99	+5.91
Electors on the lists			72,552
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	18,914	44.19	−12.80	$56,246
	New Democratic	Gerry McIntaggart	12,781	29.86	+16.42	$19,265
	Conservative	Stephen L. Butcher	9,008	21.05	−6.44	$60,810
	Green	Luke Norton	1,999	4.67		$1,348
	Marxist–Leninist	Dave Starbuck	100	0.23		$660
Total valid votes			42,802	100.00
Total rejected ballots			235	0.55	−0.06
Turnout			43,037	60.08	+5.77
Electors on the lists			71,627
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	20,290	58.52	+3.10	$49,746
	Alliance	Mike Smith	6,554	18.90	+5.94	$24,801
	New Democratic	Paul Chislett	4,368	12.60	−8.52	$10,732
	Progressive Conservative	Alex McGregor	2,642	7.62	−1.01	$3,827
	Green	Thomas Gerry	503	1.45		$327
	Canadian Action	Kathy Wells-McNeil	215	0.62	−0.63	$2,006
	Communist	Daryl Janet Shandro	98	0.28		$591
Total valid votes			34,670	100.00
Total rejected ballots			210	0.60	−0.41
Turnout			34,880	54.31	−8.20
Electors on the lists			64,220
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	22,223	55.42	−9.56	$38,251
	New Democratic	John Filo	8,471	21.12	−0.93	$43,509
	Reform	Jim Rollo	5,198	12.96	+11.66	$10,657
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Lee	3,459	8.63	+0.28	$6,493
	Canadian Action	Kathy McNeil	502	1.25		$1,258
	Natural Law	Roy Hankonen	247	0.62		$0.00
Total valid votes			40,100	100.00
Total rejected ballots			412	1.02	+0.72
Turnout			40,512	62.51	−2.82
Electors on the lists			64,806
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	27,951	66.08	+24.05	$37,453
	Reform	Mike Smith	5,788	13.68		$8,233
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice Lamoureux	3,679	8.70	−13.29	$35,719
	New Democratic Party	Rosemarie Blenkinsop	3,675	8.69	−19.08	$36,968
	National	Paul Chislett	512	1.21		$1,555
	Non-affiliated (CoR)	Billie Christiansen	276	0.65	−7.32	$2,852
	Natural Law	David Shaw	202	0.48		$141
	Independent	Ed Pokonzie	129	0.30		$230
	Abolitionist	Richard Lionel Gouin	86	0.20		$0
Total valid votes			42,298	100.00
Total rejected ballots			379	0.89	+0.34
Turnout			42,677	65.41	−8.15
Electors on the lists			65,243
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Diane Marleau	17,879	42.03	+0.9	$37,582
	New Democratic	Bill Major	11,811	27.77	+2.0	$36,732
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Fera	9,356	21.99	−10.1	$43,024
	Confederation of Regions	S. Brent Ridley	3,391	7.97		$8,808
	Communist	Mike Phillips	102	0.24		$2,044
Total valid votes			42,539	100.00
Total rejected ballots			234	0.55
Turnout			42,773	73.56
Electors on the lists			58,144
Note: The +/- totals are factored for redistribution.

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Doug Frith	18,012	41.30	-14.40
	Progressive Conservative	John A. Dediana	14,100	32.33	+20.50
	New Democratic	Harriet Conroy	11,185	25.65	-5.51
	Rhinoceros	Phil Moon Popovich	241	0.55	-0.18
	Communist	Bruce Magnuson	75	0.17	+0.02
Total valid votes			43,613	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Doug Frith	21,954	55.70	-6.17
	New Democratic	Mort Paterson	12,280	31.15	-3.06
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Watts	4,661	11.82	-1.75
	Rhinoceros	Raymond Lalonde	288	0.73
	Marxist–Leninist	Don Fleming	93	0.24	+0.11
	Independent	David De Launay	83	0.21
	Communist	Steve Amsel	58	0.15	-0.05
Total valid votes			39,417	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Jerome	20,634	49.53	-3.08
	New Democratic	Mort Paterson	14,252	34.21	+4.50
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Hope	5,656	13.58	-3.63
	Independent	Jerome Davis	599	1.44
	Libertarian	George Christakos	383	0.92
	Communist	Steve Amsel	82	0.20	-0.28
	Marxist–Leninist	Don Fleming	53	0.13
Total valid votes			41,659	100.00

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Jerome	23,374	52.61	-2.45
	New Democratic	Don Scott	13,200	29.71	-1.71
	Progressive Conservative	John Goodearle	7,646	17.21	+3.69
	Communist	Ed McDonald	210	0.47
Total valid votes			44,430	100.00

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Jerome	24,091	55.06	+2.78
	New Democratic	Garry Clarke	13,748	31.42	-1.16
	Progressive Conservative	Adam Borovich	5,913	13.51	-1.62
Total valid votes			43,752	100.00

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Jerome	19,672	52.28	+7.70
	New Democratic	Bud Germa	12,260	32.58	-12.55
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Desmarais	5,696	15.14	+6.48
Total valid votes			37,628	100.00

Canadian federal by-election, 29 May 1967
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Mitchell's death, 4 January 1967
	New Democratic	Bud Germa	12,982	45.13	+8.90
	Liberal	James Jerome	12,823	44.58	-0.07
	Progressive Conservative	Colin Caswell	2,491	8.66	-10.47
	Independent	G.W. Bill Passi	244	0.85
	Social Credit	Donald A. Land	225	0.78
Total valid votes			28,765	100.00

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	13,247	44.65	-4.17
	New Democratic	Bud Germa	10,749	36.23	+19.31
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce Kerr	5,675	19.13	-7.45
Total valid votes			29,671	100.00

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	15,794	48.82	-8.95
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Dixon	8,597	26.57	+1.28
	New Democratic	John Masih	5,472	16.91	+2.76
	Social Credit	Murray R. Maher	2,180	6.74	+3.96
	Communist	Peter Boychuck	311	0.96
Total valid votes			32,354	100.00

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	17,628	57.77	+6.63
	Progressive Conservative	Hugh Doig	7,719	25.29	-9.66
	New Democratic	John Masih	4,320	14.16	+0.24
	Social Credit	Elmer Dell Bolick	849	2.78
Total valid votes			30,516	100.00

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	16,216	51.13	+5.14
	Progressive Conservative	R.M. Mitchell	11,084	34.95	-5.31
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Bill Ellis	4,413	13.92	+0.16
Total valid votes			31,713	100.00

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	11,927	45.99	-11.24
	Progressive Conservative	R.M. Mitchell	10,440	40.26	+13.98
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ray H. Jacobs	3,566	13.75	-2.74
Total valid votes			25,933	100.00

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rodger Mitchell	12,193	57.23	+13.21
	Progressive Conservative	Laurier Lamoureux	5,598	26.28	+3.73
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Willard H. Evoy	3,514	16.49	+0.40
Total valid votes			21,305	100.00

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Léo Gauthier	15,636	44.02
	Progressive Conservative	Patrick Joseph McAndrew	8,009	22.55
	Farmer–Labour	Robert Carlin	6,161	17.34
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Willard H. Evoy	5,717	16.09
Total valid votes			35,523	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Sudbury (federal electoral district) (Code 35088) Census Profile". 2011 census . Government of Canada - Statistics Canada . Retrieved 3 March 2011.

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Statistics Canada: 2016
3. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (9 February 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Sudbury [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
4. "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
5. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
6. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada . Retrieved 9 April 2024.
7. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada . Retrieved 2 October 2021.
8. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
9. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
10. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Sudbury, 30 September 2015
11. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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