Oshawa (provincial electoral district)

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

Oshawa

Ontario electoral district
Oshawa in relation to other greater Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Jennifer French New Democratic
First contested	1955
Demographics
Population (2006)	116,881
Electors (2011)	87,638
Area (km²)	74
Pop. density (per km²)	1,579.5
Census divisions	Durham
Census subdivisions	Oshawa

Map of Oshawa riding

Oshawa is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1955.

It consists of the southern and eastern parts of the City of Oshawa south and east of a line drawn from west to east along King Street West, north along Oshawa Creek, east along Rossland Road West, north along Simcoe Street North and east along Winchester Road East. The riding includes the communities of Kedron and Taunton and the eastern part of North Oshawa. It has a population of 113,662 and an area of 74 km².

In 1999, provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Oshawa
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from part of Ontario riding in 1955
25th	1955–1963		T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967		Albert Walker	Progressive Conservative
28th	1967–1971		Cliff Pilkey	New Democratic
29th	1971–1975		Charles McIlveen	Progressive Conservative
30th	1975–1977		Mike Breaugh	New Democratic
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995		Allan Pilkey
36th	1995–1999		Jerry Ouellette	Progressive Conservative
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present		Jennifer French	New Democratic

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Jennifer French	22,227	46.70	+10.52
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Ouellette	14,532	30.53	-11.72
	Liberal	Esrick Quintyn	9,052	19.02	+1.53
	Green	Becky Smit	1,785	3.75	+1.13
Total valid votes			47,596	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+11.12
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Ouellette	16,719	42.25	+3.23
	New Democratic	Mike Shields	14,316	36.18	+3.26
	Liberal	Jacquie Menezes	6,921	17.49	-3.91
	Green	Stacey Leadbetter	1,035	2.62	-3.42
	Libertarian	Matthew Belanger	435	1.10
	Freedom	Ben Fudge	147	0.37
Total valid votes			39,573	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			162	0.41
Turnout			39,735	44.26
Eligible voters			89,767
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-0.02
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Ouellette	15,977	39.02	+1.7
	New Democratic	Sid Ryan	13,482	32.92	-1.79
	Liberal	Faelyne Templer	8,762	21.40	-2.64
	Green	Alexander Kemp	2,474	6.04	+4.41
	Family Coalition	Jeffrey Streutker	253	0.62	-0.36
Total valid votes			40,948	100.0

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Ouellette	14,566	37.32	-9.43
	New Democratic	Sid Ryan	13,547	34.71	+12.09
	Liberal	Chris Topple	9,383	24.04	-4.98
	Green	Karen Tweedle	636	1.63
	Freedom	Paul McKeever	518	1.33
	Family Coalition	Dale Chilvers	383	0.98
Total valid votes			39,033	100.0

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry Ouellette	18,915	46.75
	Liberal	Chris Topple	11,740	29.02
	New Democratic	Colleen Twomey	9,154	22.62
	Natural Law	Garry Kotack	651	1.61
Total valid votes			40,460	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	25,559	64.1
	Mixed member proportional	14,305	35.9
	Total valid votes	39,864	100.0

References

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results