Brampton South
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Brampton South (French: Brampton-Sud) is a federal electoral district in the Peel Region of Ontario.
 Ontario electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Brampton South in relation to other Greater Toronto Area districts | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2013 | ||
| First contested | 2015 | ||
| Last contested | 2019 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 121,188 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 78,487 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 46.73 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2,593.4 | ||
| Census divisions | Peel | ||
| Census subdivisions | Brampton | ||
Brampton South was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] It was created out of the electoral district of Brampton West.[4]
Members of ParliamentEdit
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brampton South Riding created from Brampton West |
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| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Sonia Sidhu | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–present | |||
Election resultsEdit
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Sonia Sidhu | 24,085 | 49.47 | -2.62 | ||||
| Conservative | Ramandeep Brar | 13,828 | 28.40 | -6.64 | ||||
| New Democratic | Mandeep Kaur | 7,985 | 16.40 | +5.75 | ||||
| Green | Karen Fraser | 1,926 | 3.95 | +1.73 | ||||
| People's | Rajwinder Ghuman | 354 | 0.72 | |||||
| Christian Heritage | Wavey Mercer | 285 | 0.58 | |||||
| Canada's Fourth Front | Mitesh Joshi | 152 | 0.31 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Dagmar Sullivan | 68 | 0.13 | |||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 48,863 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 583 | |||||||
| Turnout | 49,266 | 62.76 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 78,487 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Sonia Sidhu | 23,681 | 52.09 | +16.70 | $101,341.55 | |||
| Conservative | Kyle Seeback | 15,929 | 35.04 | -10.37 | $105,913.36 | |||
| New Democratic | Amarjit Sangha | 4,843 | 10.65 | -5.77 | $37,089.45 | |||
| Green | Shaun Hatton | 1,011 | 2.22 | -0.04 | $144.64 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 45,464 | 100.00 | $205,155.00 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 270 | 0.59 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 45,734 | 63.42 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 72,111 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.53 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 16,145 | 45.40 | |
| Liberal | 12,584 | 35.39 | |
| New Democratic | 5,838 | 16.42 | |
| Green | 805 | 2.26 | |
| Others | 186 | 0.52 | |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2017
- ^ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
- ^ Final Report – Ontario
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Brampton South, 30 September 2015
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections