Thunder Bay—Superior North

For the current provincial electoral district, see Thunder Bay—Superior North (provincial electoral district).

Thunder Bay—Superior North

Ontario electoral district
Thunder Bay—Superior North in relation to other northern Ontario electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Patty Hajdu Liberal
District created	1976
First contested	1976
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2019) [1]	82,651
Electors (2019) [2]	66,579
Area (km²) [3]	87,965
Pop. density (per km²)	0.94
Census division(s)	Thunder Bay District
Census subdivision(s)	Thunder Bay, Greenstone, Marathon, Shuniah

Thunder Bay—Superior North (French : Thunder Bay—Supérieur-Nord; formerly known as Thunder Bay—Nipigon) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1976.

It is in the northwestern part of the province of Ontario. It was created in 1976 as "Thunder Bay—Nipigon" from parts of Port Arthur and Thunder Bay ridings. It was renamed "Thunder Bay—Superior North" in 1998.

It consists of the eastern part of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay including the northern part of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

13.7% of the population of the riding are of Finnish ethnic origin, the highest such percentage in Canada. ^[4]

This riding lost a fraction of territory to Thunder Bay—Rainy River and gained territory from Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2021 Census ^[5]

Ethnic groups: 76.3% White, 17.3% Indigenous, 2.3% South Asian, 1.0% Black
Languages: 83.7% English, 3.7% French, 1.8% Italian, 1.6% Finnish
Religions: 56.7% Christian (31.6% Catholic, 4.8% United Church, 4.6% Anglican, 4.6% Lutheran, 1.2% Presbyterian, 1.0% Baptist, 8.9% Other), 1.1% Muslim, 39.2% None
Median income: $43,200 (2020)
Average income: $52,950 (2020)

Geography

Thunder Bay—Superior North consists of the part of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay

• lying east of a line drawn from the northern limit the territorial district due south to the northeast corner of the Township of Bulmer, and south along the eastern boundaries of the townships of Bulmer, Fletcher, Furlonge, McLaurin and Bertrand, east along the 6th Base Line, south along longitude 90o00( W, Dog River and the western shoreline of Dog Lake, west, along the north, west and south boundaries of the Township of Fowler, south along the Kaministiquia River, east along the northern limit of the Township of Oliver Paipoonge, south along its eastern limit and along Pole Line Road, north along Thunder Bay Expressway (Highways 11 and 17), east along Harbour Expressway and Main Street to 110th Avenue, then due east to the eastern limit of the City of Thunder Bay, along that limit to the northeast corner of the Township of Neebing, then southeast to the US border; and
• excluding the part lying south and east of a line drawn from the southwest corner of the Township of Downer due west to a line drawn due south from the southeast corner of the Township of Bain, due south to a line drawn due west from the southwest corner of the Township of McGill, due east to longitude 86o00( W, south along that longitude, and west along the White River to Lake Superior.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Thunder Bay—Nipigon Riding created from Port Arthur and Thunder Bay
31st	1979–1980		Bob Andras	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984		Jack Masters
33rd	1984–1988		Ernie Epp	New Democratic
34th	1988–1993		Joe Comuzzi	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
Thunder Bay—Superior North
36th	1997–2000		Joe Comuzzi	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2007
	2007–2007			Independent
	2007–2008			Conservative
40th	2008–2011		Bruce Hyer	New Democratic
41st	2011–2012
	2012–2013			Independent
	2013–2015			Green
42nd	2015–2019		Patty Hajdu	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

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

Thunder Bay—Superior North

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Patty Hajdu	16,893	40.7	-2.2	$94,557.23
	New Democratic	Chantelle Bryson	11,244	27.1	+6.0	$40,417.50
	Conservative	Joshua Taylor	10,035	24.2	-1.4	$7,497.92
	People's	Rick Daines	2,465	5.9	+4.2	$0.00
	Green	Amanda Moddejonge	735	1.8	-6.6	$2,082.49
	Libertarian	Alexander Vodden	111	0.3	0.0	$0.00
Total valid votes			41,483
Total rejected ballots			311
Turnout			41,794	63.61
Eligible voters			65,703
Source: Elections Canada [6]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Patty Hajdu	18,502	42.85	-2.14	$94,089.37
	Conservative	Frank Pullia	11,036	25.56	+8.13	$33,102.79
	New Democratic	Anna Betty Achneepineskum	9,126	21.14	-2.04	$42,426.79
	Green	Bruce Hyer	3,639	8.43	-5.37	$23,709.76
	People's	Youssef Khanjari	734	1.70	–	$5,389.00
	Libertarian	Alexander Vodden	140	0.32	–	$1,783.16
Total valid votes/expense limit			43,177	99.05
Total rejected ballots			416	0.95
Turnout			43,593	65.48	-3.22
Eligible voters			66,579
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.13
Source: Elections Canada [7] [8]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Patty Hajdu	20,069	44.99	+28.51	$90,854.71
	New Democratic	Andrew Foulds	10,339	23.18	-26.97	$121,837.34
	Conservative	Richard Harvey	7,775	17.43	-12.22	$59,457.39
	Green	Bruce Hyer	6,155	13.80	+10.78	$123,098.51
	Independent	Robert Skaf	270	0.61	–	$6,944.34
Total valid votes/Expense limit			44,608	99.60		$248,538.44
Total rejected ballots			178	0.40
Turnout			44,786	68.70
Eligible voters			65,195
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+27.74
Source: Elections Canada [9] [10] [11]

2011 federal election redistributed results [12]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	18,881	50.15
	Conservative	11,163	29.65
	Liberal	6,203	16.48
	Green	1,137	3.02
	Others	264	0.70

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Hyer	18,334	49.9	+12.9	$89,828.18
	Conservative	Richard Harvey	10,894	29.7	+2.9	$74,902.87
	Liberal	Yves Fricot	6,117	16.7	-11.8	$75,441.94
	Green	Scot Kyle	1,115	3.0	-3.9	$1,186.13
	Marijuana	Denis Andrew Carrière	265	0.7	-0.2	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			36,725	100.0
Total rejected ballots			156	0.	–
Turnout			36,881	–	–
Eligible voters			60,879	–	–
	New Democratic hold		Swing

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Hyer	13,187	37.0	+2.1	$85,186
	Liberal	Don McArthur	10,083	28.3	-7.7	$74,762
	Conservative	Bev Sarafin	9,556	26.8	+4.7	$56,069
	Green	Brendan Hughes	2,463	6.9	+1.1	$10,885
	Marijuana	Denis Andrew Carrière	327	0.9	-0.4
Total valid votes/Expense limit			35,616	100.0	$98,240
	New Democratic gain		Swing

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	13,983	36.0	-7.0
	New Democratic	Bruce Hyer	13,575	34.9	+5.6
	Conservative	Bev Sarafin	8,575	22.1	+0.9
	Green	Dawn Kannegiesser	2,241	5.8	+1.2
	Marijuana	Denis A. Carrière	487	1.3	-0.5
Total valid votes			38,861	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	15,022	43.0	-5.1
	New Democratic	Bruce Hyer	10,230	29.3	+9.8
	Conservative	Bev Sarafin	7,394	21.2	-7.3
	Green	Carl Rose	1,614	4.6	+2.6
	Marijuana	Denis A. Carrière	645	1.8	0.0
Total valid votes			34,905	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	15,241	48.1	-3.7
	Alliance	Doug Pantry	6,278	19.8	+3.5
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	6,169	19.5	-1.3
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Neumann	2,753	8.7	-2.4
	Green	Carl Rose	648	2.0
	Marijuana	Denis A. Carrière	581	1.8
Total valid votes			31,670	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Thunder Bay—Nipigon

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	16,745	51.8	-13.2
	New Democratic	Chris Mather	6,705	20.8	+11.7
	Reform	Doug Pantry	5,286	16.4	+1.4
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Guinn	3,569	11.0	+1.5
Total valid votes			32,305	100.0

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	24,249	65.1	+24.8
	Reform	Bob Reynolds	5,567	14.9
	Progressive Conservative	Marlene Hogarth	3,567	9.6	-16.1
	New Democratic	David James Ramsay	3,363	9.0	-25.1
	National	Wayne Hill	439	1.2
	Commonwealth of Canada	Brian Aalto	80	0.2
Total valid votes			37,265	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joe Comuzzi	15,346	40.2	+6.2
	New Democratic	Ernie Epp	13,019	34.1	-3.0
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Stille	9,782	25.6	-2.7
Total valid votes			38,147	100.0

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Ernie Epp	13,901	37.2	+0.7
	Liberal	Jack Masters	12,736	34.0	-12.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Simpson	10,601	28.3	+11.8
	Libertarian	Sally Hayes	180	0.5
Total valid votes			37,418	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jack Masters	16,582	46.6	+1.7
	New Democratic	Bruce McKay	12,950	36.4	+4.1
	Progressive Conservative	Rene Larson	5,865	16.5	-5.7
	Communist	Walter E. Rogers	109	0.3	-0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Dennis Deveau	68	0.2	+0.1
Total valid votes			35,574	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bob Andras	15,674	44.9
	New Democratic	Bruce McKay	11,288	32.3
	Progressive Conservative	Robert R. Lingman	7,749	22.2
	Communist	Nancy McDonald	174	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Dianne Robinson	50	0.1
Total valid votes			34,935	100.0

See also

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

References

• "Thunder Bay—Superior North (Code 35091) Census Profile". 2011 census . Government of Canada - Statistics Canada . Retrieved March 3, 2011.

Notes

1. "Voter Information Service - Find your electoral district".
2. "Voter Information Service - Find your electoral district".
3. Statistics Canada: 2012
4. "2Profile of Ethnic Origin and Visible Minorities for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2006 Census". 2.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
5. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Thunder Bay--Superior North [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
6. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada . Retrieved October 2, 2021.
7. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Archived from the original on October 8, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
8. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
9. "Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Thunder Bay—Superior North, 30 September 2015". Archived from the original on October 4, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
10. "Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates". Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
11. "Official Voting Results" . Retrieved July 29, 2021.
12. "Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections". Archived from the original on August 25, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.

External links

• Riding history 1976-1987 from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history 1988-2008 from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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