Waterloo is a provincial electoral district in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada that is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.[1]
Waterloo in relation to southern Ontario ridings (2015 boundaries) | |||
| Coordinates: | 43.48°N 80.52°W / 43.48; -80.52 | ||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| MPP |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2018 | ||
| Last contested | 2022 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 110,135 | ||
| Electors (2018) | 88,580 | ||
| Area (km²) | 75 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,468.5 | ||
| Census division(s) | Waterloo | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Waterloo, Kitchener | ||
The Waterloo electoral district contains all of the city of Waterloo plus the Bridgeport neighbourhood of Kitchener.
| Waterloo | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Kitchener—Waterloo | ||||
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Catherine Fife | New Democratic | |
| 43rd | 2022–present | |||
| 2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Catherine Fife | 20,615 | 45.90 | -4.94 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Andrew Aitken | 13,176 | 29.34 | -2.07 | ||||
| Liberal | Jennifer Tuck | 6,251 | 13.92 | +1.75 | ||||
| Green | Shefaza Esmail | 3,110 | 6.92 | +2.09 | ||||
| New Blue | Volodymyr Voznyuk | 1,168 | 2.60 | |||||
| Ontario Party | Benjamin Hufnagel | 360 | 0.80 | |||||
| Communist | Christian Shingiro | 130 | 0.29 | |||||
| Electoral Reform Party | Peter House | 103 | 0.23 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 44,913 | |||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 47.38 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 94,797 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
| Source:Elections Ontario[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Catherine Fife | 27,315 | 50.54 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dan Weber | 16,973 | 31.41 | |||||
| Liberal | Dorothy McCabe | 6,577 | 12.17 | |||||
| Green | Zdravko Gunjevic | 2,613 | 4.83 | |||||
| Libertarian | Andrew Allison | 566 | 1.05 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 54,097 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Turnout | 64.5 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 83,924 | |||||||
| New Democratic pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||
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