Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale (provincial electoral district)

Ancaster—Dundas— Flamborough—Westdale

Ontario electoral district
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Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Ted McMeekin Liberal
District created	2004
First contested	2007
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	111,844
Electors (2007)	82,367
Area (km²)	744
Pop. density (per km²)	150.3
Census divisions	Hamilton
Census subdivisions	Hamilton

Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale is a provincial electoral district in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 2007 provincial election. 82.9% of the riding came from Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot while 17.1% came from Hamilton West.

The riding includes all of Hamilton west of a line running along Glancaster Road then to Garner Road then to a Hydroelectric Transmission Line then to Highway 403 to Hamilton Harbour.

Members of Provincial Parlaiment

Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot
39th	2007–2011		Ted McMeekin	Liberal
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ted McMeekin	24,042	44.56	+0.86
	Progressive Conservative	Donna Skelly	18,252	33.83	-0.75
	New Democratic	Alex Johnstone	8,415	15.60	-1.60
	Green	Raymond Dartsch	2,639	4.89	+1.91
	Libertarian	Glenn Langton	423	0.78	+0.26
	Freedom	Barry Spruce	188	0.35	+0.15
Total valid votes			53,959	100.0	+8.57
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			835	1.52
Turnout			54,794	59.02
Eligible voters			92,833
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.80
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ted McMeekin	21,648	43.70	+2.19
	Progressive Conservative	Donna Skelly	17,132	34.58	-0.25
	New Democratic	Trevor Westerhoff	8,521	17.20	+3.97
	Green	Erik Coverdale	1,477	2.98	-5.60
	Family Coalition	Robert Maton	321	0.65	-0.36
	Libertarian	Glenn Langton	258	0.52	+0.39
	Freedom	Peter Melanson	99	0.20
	Communist	Rick Gunderman Smith	87	0.18
Total valid votes			49,543	100.0	+0.20
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			180	0.36
Turnout			49,723	56.45
Eligible voters			88,080
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.22
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ted McMeekin	20,525	41.51
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Corrigan	17,219	34.83
	New Democratic	Juanita Maldonado	6,542	13.23
	Green	David Januczkowski	4,243	8.58
	Family Coalition	Jim Enos	501	1.01
	Independent	Martin Zaliniak	219	0.44
	Confederation of Regions	Eileen Butson	129	0.26
	Libertarian	Sam Zaslavsky	65	0.13
Total valid votes			49,443	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	30,716	63
	Mixed member proportional	18,033	37
	Total valid votes	48,749	100.0

Sources

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results