Scarborough—Rouge Park is a provincial electoral district in Scarborough, Toronto. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. This riding was created in 2015.[1]
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![]() Scarborough-Rouge Park in relation to the other Toronto ridings (2015 boundaries) | |||
Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
MPP |
Progressive Conservative | ||
District created | 2015 | ||
First contested | 2018 | ||
Last contested | 2018 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2016) | 102,275 | ||
Electors (2018) | 76,313 | ||
Area (km²) | 55 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 1,859.5 | ||
Census division(s) | Toronto | ||
Census subdivision(s) | Toronto |
Scarborough—Rouge Park | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
Riding created from Pickering—Scarborough East, Scarborough—Guildwood and Scarborough—Rouge River |
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42nd | 2018–2022 | Vijay Thanigasalam | Progressive Conservative | |
43rd | 2022–present |
2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Vijay Thanigasalam | 15,732 | 45.47 | +6.86 | ||||
Liberal | Manal Abdullahi | 9,522 | 27.52 | +6.61 | ||||
New Democratic | Felicia Samuel | 7,576 | 21.89 | -14.43 | ||||
Green | Priyan De Silva | 835 | 2.41 | ±0.00 | ||||
Ontario Party | Gordon Kerr | 521 | 1.51 | |||||
New Blue | Christopher Bressi | 283 | 0.82 | |||||
Freedom | Matthew Oliver | 133 | 0.38 | |||||
Total valid votes | 34,602 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | ||||||||
Turnout | 44.12 | |||||||
Eligible voters | 78,430 | |||||||
Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +0.13 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[2] |
2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Vijay Thanigasalam | 16,224 | 38.61 | |||||
New Democratic | Felicia Samuel | 15,261 | 36.32 | |||||
Liberal | Sumi Shan | 8,785 | 20.91 | |||||
Green | Priyan De Silva | 1,014 | 2.41 | |||||
Libertarian | Todd Byers | 582 | 1.39 | |||||
Trillium | Amit Mahendra Pitamber | 149 | 0.35 | |||||
Total valid votes | 42,015 | 99.12 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 372 | 0.88 | ||||||
Turnout | 42,387 | |||||||
Eligible voters | ||||||||
Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[3] |
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