Sudbury (provincial electoral district)

For the federal electoral district, see Sudbury (federal electoral district).

Sudbury

Ontario electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Jamie West New Democratic
District created	1905
First contested	1908
Last contested	2022
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	80,840
Electors (2018)	67,410
Area (km²)	158
Pop. density (per km²)	511.6
Census division(s)	Greater Sudbury

Sudbury is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1908. It is one of the two districts serving the city of Greater Sudbury.

Its population in 2001 was 89,443.

Sudbury was given its own riding provincially in the 1908 election, when the former riding of Nipissing West was divided into Sudbury and Sturgeon Falls. It initially included a large portion of the Sudbury District; 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. The riding of Sudbury East was additionally created in 1967.

Federally, however, the city remained part of the Nipissing electoral district until 1947.

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.

Demographics

According to the 2022 Canadian census ^[2]

Ethnic groups: 87.9% White, 8.4% Aboriginal
Languages: 65.3% English, 23.6% French
Religions: 77.3% Christian (55.6% Catholic, 5.4% United Church, 4.3% Anglican, 1.7% Lutheran, 1.5% Baptist, 1.3% Pentecostal, 1.2% Presbyterian, 6.3% Other Christian), 20.8% No religion

History

The provincial electoral district was first contested in the 1908 election. Prior to its creation, the town of Sudbury was part of the district of Nipissing West.

In 1996, Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level.

In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten. ^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Sudbury
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Nipissing West
12th	1908–1911		Francis Cochrane	Conservative
13th	1911–1914		Charles McCrea
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937		Edmond Lapierre	Liberal
20th	1937–1943		James Cooper
21st	1943–1945		Robert Carlin	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951		Welland Gemmell	Progressive Conservative
24th	1951–1954†
25th	1955–1959		Gerry Monaghan
26th	1959–1963		Elmer Sopha	Liberal
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		Bud Germa	New Democratic
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985		Jim Gordon	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990		Sterling Campbell	Liberal
35th	1990–1995		Sharon Murdock	New Democratic
36th	1995–1998		Rick Bartolucci	Liberal
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2014		Joe Cimino	New Democratic
	2015–2018		Glenn Thibeault	Liberal
42nd	2018–2022		Jamie West	New Democratic
43rd	2022–present

Election results

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
The 2025 general election will be held on February 27.
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jamie West
	Progressive Conservative	Max Massimiliano
	Green	David Robinson
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jamie West	12,013	40.85	−7.22	$76,331
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Despatie	8,519	28.97	+5.73	$66,299
	Liberal	David Farrow	5,727	19.47	−2.95	$57,197
	Green	David Robinson	1,480	5.03	+0.87	$23,082
	New Blue	Sheldon Pressey	724	2.46		$8,572
	Libertarian	Adrien Berthier	504	1.71	+1.13	$253
	Ontario Party	Jason LaFace	353	1.20		$366
	Independent	J. David Popescu	90	0.31		$146
Total valid votes/expense limit			29,410	99.32	+0.36	$95,253
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			203	0.68	-0.36
Turnout			29,613	44.60	-9.62
Eligible voters			68,036
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−6.48
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.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Jamie West	17,386	48.07	+12.92
	Progressive Conservative	Troy Crowder	8,405	23.24	+15.73
	Liberal	Glenn Thibeault	8,108	22.42	-18.83
	Green	David Robinson	1,504	4.16	+0.92
	Consensus Ontario	Mila Chavez Wong	284	0.79
	Libertarian	James Wendler	212	0.59
	None of the Above	David Sylvestre	186	0.51
	Independent	J. David Popescu	82	0.23	+0.14
Total valid votes			36,167	100.0
Turnout				54.9
Eligible voters			65,850
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		-1.37
Source: Elections Ontario [4]

v t e Ontario provincial by-election, February 5, 2015 Resignation of Joe Cimino
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Glenn Thibeault	10,618	41.25	+1.91
	New Democratic	Suzanne Shawbonquit	9,067	35.15	-7.09
	Independent	Andrew Olivier	3,183	12.34	-27.00
	Progressive Conservative	Paula Peroni	1,937	7.51	-6.29
	Green	David Robinson	837	3.24	-0.35
	Pauper	John Turmel	25	0.10	–
	People's Political Party	Jean-Raymond Audet	39	0.15	–
	Independent	J. David Popescu	24	0.09	-0.22
	Independent	Ed Pokonzie	22	0.09	–
	Independent	James Waddell	21	0.08	–
Total valid votes			25,795	99.45	+0.56
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			143	0.55	-0.56
Turnout			25,938	39.69	-12.23
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+4.50
Independent candidate Andrew Olivier lost 27.00 percentage points from the 2014 election, when he ran as a Liberal.
Source(s) Elections Ontario (2015). "Official Return from the Records, 088 Sudbury" (PDF). Retrieved 10 August 2017.

v t e 2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Joe Cimino	14,247	42.24	+1.51
	Liberal	Andrew Olivier	13,267	39.34	−3.03
	Progressive Conservative	Paula Peroni	4,653	13.80	+0.23
	Green	Casey J. Lalonde	1,211	3.59	+0.91
	Libertarian	Steven Wilson	242	0.72
	Independent	J. David Popescu	105	0.31	+0.17
Total valid votes			33,725	100.00	+4.03
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+2.27
Source(s) "General Election Results by District, 088 Sudbury". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.

v t e 2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rick Bartolucci	13,735	42.37	−16.40	$ 75,799.82
	New Democratic	Paul Loewenberg	13,204	40.73	+13.60	63,442.20
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry Labelle	4,400	13.57	+5.64	28,741.21
	Green	Pat Rogerson	870	2.68	−2.21	8,357.73
	Family Coalition	Carita Murphy Marketos	164	0.51	−0.39	325.70
	Independent	David Popescu	44	0.14	−0.24	359.01
Total valid votes / expense limit			32,417	100.00	−1.32	$ 77,509.46
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			112	0.34	−0.27
Turnout			32,529	49.94	−1.17
Eligible voters			65,130		+0.72
	Liberal hold		Swing		−15.00
Source(s) "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Sudbury" (PDF). Elections Ontario. "2011 Candidate Campaign Returns - (CR-1)" . Retrieved June 13, 2014.

v t e 2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rick Bartolucci	19,307	58.77	−10.21	$ 65,502.20
	New Democratic	Dave Battaino	8,914	27.13	+13.13	38,488.63
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Delongchamp	2,605	7.93	−6.26	12,594.00
	Green	David Sylvestre	1,608	4.89	+2.07	1,520.11
	Family Coalition	Carita Murphy-Marketos	293	0.89		3,118.15
	Independent	David Popescu	124	0.38		17.90
Total valid votes / expense limit			32,851	100.0	−8.00	$ 69,838.20
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			201	0.61	−0.15
Turnout			33,052	51.11	−4.84
Electors on the lists			64,665		+0.56
	Liberal hold		Swing		−11.67
Note: Percentage changes are factored for redistribution.
Source(s) "General Election Poll by Poll Results – Electoral District 088 Sudbury" (PDF). Elections Ontario. "2007 Annual Returns, Candidate and Constituency Associations" . Retrieved June 13, 2014.

v t e 2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rick Bartolucci	24,631	68.98	+10.27	$ 58,280.81
	Progressive Conservative	Mila Wong	5,068	14.19	−15.39	34,319.74
	New Democratic	Harvey Wyers	4,999	14.00	+3.49	16,359.88
	Green	Luke Norton	1,009	2.83		508.44
Total valid votes / expense limit			35,707	100.00	−3.54	$ 61,731.84
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			274	0.76	+0.10
Turnout			35,981	55.95	+0.26
Eligible voters			64,304		−3.89
	Liberal hold		Swing		+12.83
Source(s) "General Election of October 2, 2003 — Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. "General Election of October 2, 2003 — Statistical Summary" . Retrieved June 13, 2014. "2003 Election Returns - Candidate and Constituency Association – Candidate Campaign Return (CR-1)".

v t e 1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rick Bartolucci	21,732	58.71	+18.05	$ 52,531.80
	Progressive Conservative	Mila Wong	10,948	29.58	+2.93	61,776.00
	New Democratic	Paul Chislett	3,891	10.51	−18.12	Not Available
	Natural Law	Bernard Fram	184	0.50	−0.54	0.00
	Independent	Ed Pokonzie	159	0.43	+0.02	Not Available
	Independent	David Popescu	103	0.28		123.60
Total valid votes / expense limit			37,017	100.0	+21.87	$ 64,227.84
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			245	0.66	−0.66
Turnout			37,262	55.69	−6.41
Electors on the lists			66,904		+34.99
Note: Percentage change figures are not factored for redistribution.
Source(s) "General Election of June 3 1999 – Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. "General Election of June 3 1999 – Statistical Summary" . Retrieved June 13, 2014. "1999 Candidate and Constituency Associations – Candidate Campaign Return (CR-1)".

v t e 1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rick Bartolucci	12,349	40.66	$ 38,419.00
	New Democratic	Sharon Murdock	8,698	28.64	45,265.43
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Zanibbi	8,093	26.64	43,588.00
	Independent	Don Scott	506	1.67	459.00
	Natural Law	David Gordon	315	1.04	0.00
	Green	Lewis Poulin	290	0.95	69.68
	Independent	Ed Pokonzie	123	0.40	0.00
Total valid votes / expense limit			30,374	100.00	$ 46,140.00
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			405	1.32
Turnout			30,779	62.10
Eligible voters			49,562
Source(s) "General Election of June 8 1995 – Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. "General Election of June 8 1995 – Statistical Summary" . Retrieved June 13, 2014. "1995 Details of Candidate Income and Expenses" ( Word'95 .doc files (3.16MB)). & "1995 Summary of Income and Campaign Expenses" ( 146KB).

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	21,842	68.3
	Mixed member proportional	10,130	31.7
	Total valid votes	31,972	100.0

References

1. "Elections Ontario".
2. Demographics calculated by removing Census Tracts 5800130.00, 5800131.00, 5800132.00 (excluding Whitefish Lake) from the Sudbury Federal Electoral District
3. Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries” Archived 2006-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 10-11. Retrieved 20 January 2019.

External links

• Map of riding for 2018 election

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