Thunder Bay—Superior North is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
MPP |
New Democratic | ||
District created | 1999 | ||
First contested | 1999 | ||
Last contested | 2022 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2016)[1] | 70,475 | ||
Electors (2018) | 56,277 | ||
Area (km²) | 92,928 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 0.76 | ||
Census division(s) | Thunder Bay District | ||
Census subdivision(s) | Thunder Bay |
The district is in the northwestern part of the province of Ontario.
It consists of the eastern part of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay including the northern part of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
The current Member of Provincial Parliament for this riding is Lise Vaugeois from the Ontario New Democratic Party.
Thunder Bay—Superior North consists of the part of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay
The district was created from Port Arthur and Lake Nipigon in 1999 when Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level.
In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.[2]
Thunder Bay—Superior North | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
Riding created from Port Arthur and Lake Nipigon | ||||
37th | 1999–2003 | Michael Gravelle | Liberal | |
38th | 2003–2007 | |||
39th | 2007–2011 | |||
40th | 2011–2014 | |||
41st | 2014–2018 | |||
42nd | 2018–2022 | |||
43rd | 2022–present | Lise Vaugeois | New Democratic |
2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Lise Vaugeois | 8,404 | 34.12 | -3.04 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Peng You | 7,604 | 30.87 | +12.91 | ||||
Liberal | Shelby Ch'ng | 6,966 | 28.28 | -11.59 | ||||
Green | Tracey MacKinnon | 738 | 3.00 | +0.21 | ||||
Ontario Party | Stephen Hufnagel | 338 | 1.37 | |||||
New Blue | Kathy Suutari | 314 | 1.27 | |||||
Northern Ontario | Andy Wolff | 145 | 0.59 | -0.66 | ||||
Consensus Ontario | Adam Cherry | 125 | 0.51 | |||||
Total valid votes | 24,634 | |||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | ||||||||
Turnout | 42.77 | -11.06 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 56,590 | |||||||
New Democratic gain from Liberal | Swing | -4.27 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[3] |
2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 11,973 | 39.86 | -16.11 | ||||
New Democratic | Lise Vaugeois | 11,160 | 37.16 | +7.69 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Derek Parks | 5,395 | 17.96 | +10.78 | ||||
Green | Amanda Moddejonge | 838 | 2.79 | -0.81 | ||||
Northern Ontario | Andy Wolff | 376 | 1.25 | +0.79 | ||||
Libertarian | Tony Gallo | 148 | 0.49 | -2.83 | ||||
Trillium | Louise Ewen | 145 | 0.48 | |||||
Total valid votes | 30,035 | 99.13 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 264 | 0.87 | +0.08 | |||||
Turnout | 30,299 | 53.84 | +3.43 | |||||
Eligible voters | 56,277 | |||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -11.90 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[4] |
2014 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 15,519 | 55.97 | +10.97 | ||||
New Democratic | Andrew Foulds | 8,169 | 29.46 | -5.39 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Derek Parks | 1,991 | 7.18 | -10.33 | ||||
Green | Joseph LeBlanc | 997 | 3.60 | +1.48 | ||||
Libertarian | Tamara Johnson | 922 | 3.33 | +2.82 | ||||
Northern Ontario Heritage | Paul Sloan | 127 | 0.46 | |||||
Total valid votes | 27,725 | 99.21 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 220 | 0.79 | ||||||
Turnout | 27,945 | 50.41 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 55,436 | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[5] |
2011 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 11,765 | 45.00 | -1.78 | ||||
New Democratic | Steve Mantis | 9,111 | 34.85 | -3.41 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Anthony LeBlanc | 4,578 | 17.51 | +8.11 | ||||
Green | Scot Kyle | 555 | 2.12 | -3.43 | ||||
Libertarian | Tony Gallo | 133 | 0.51 | |||||
Total valid votes | 26,142 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 97 | 0.37 | ||||||
Turnout | 26,239 | 48.20 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 54,443 | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[6] |
2007 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 13,373 | 46.78 | -25.28 | ||||
New Democratic | Jim Foulds | 10,938 | 38.26 | +23.32 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Scott Hobbs | 2,688 | 9.40 | -0.16 | ||||
Green | Dawn Kannegiesser | 1,586 | 5.55 | +2.11 | ||||
Total valid votes | 28,585 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 169 | 0.59 | ||||||
Turnout | 28,754 | 53.91 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 53,341 | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[7] |
2003 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 21,938 | 72.45 | +11.55 | ||||
New Democratic | Bonnie Satten | 4,548 | 15.02 | -3.53 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Brent Sylvester | 2,912 | 9.62 | -8.36 | ||||
Green | Carl Rose | 882 | 2.91 | +1.70 | ||||
Total valid votes | 30,280 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 160 | 0.53 | ||||||
Turnout | 30,440 | 55.60 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 54,753 | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[8] |
1999 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Michael Gravelle | 19,249 | 60.9 | +11.98 | ||||
New Democratic | Nathalie Galesloot | 5,864 | 18.55 | -7.11 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ed Linkewich | 5,683 | 17.98 | -4.47 | ||||
Independent | Robert Woito | 431 | 1.36 | |||||
Green | Carl Rose | 382 | 1.21 | |||||
Total valid votes | 31,609 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 232 | 0.73 | ||||||
Turnout | 31,841 | 54.94 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 57,961 | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[9] |
2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum | |||
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Side | Votes | % | |
First Past the Post | 18,643 | 67.7 | |
Mixed member proportional | 8,903 | 32.3 | |
Total valid votes | 27,546 | 100.0 |
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