Hamilton Centre

For the provincial electoral district, see Hamilton Centre (provincial electoral district).

Hamilton Centre

Ontario electoral district
Hamilton Centre in relation to the other Hamilton area ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	David Christopherson NDP
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	117,509
Electors (2011)	81,170
Area (km²)	38
Pop. density (per km²)	3,092.3
Census divisions	Hamilton
Census subdivisions	Hamilton

Hamilton Centre is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.

It was created in 2003 from parts of Hamilton East, Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot ridings.

It consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Ottawa Street, west along the Niagara Escarpment, southwest along James Mountain Road, south along West 5th Street, west along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour.

Members of Parliament

It has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons by New Democrat David Christopherson since the 2004 federal election.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
38th	2004–2006		David Christopherson	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	David Christopherson	23,849	57.0	+7.7	-
	Conservative	James Byron	11,020	26.4	+4.1	-
	Liberal	Anne Tennier	5,912	14.1	-3.5	-
	Marijuana	Michael Baldasaro	780	1.9	n/a	-
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	252	0.6	+0.3	-
Total valid votes			41,813	100.0	-
Total rejected ballots			320	0.8
Turnout			42,133	54.7
Eligible voters			77,077

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	David Christopherson	20,010	49.3	-2.0	$66,259
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	9,051	22.3	+2.0	$24,629
	Liberal	Helen Wilson	7,164	17.6	-5.9	$30,226
	Green	John Livingstone	3,625	8.9	+4.2	$5,353
	Libertarian	Anthony Giles	528	1.3	n/a	-
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	126	0.3	n/a
	Communist	Ryan Sparrow	125	0.3	n/a	$373
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,850	100.0		$85,900

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	David Christopherson	24,503	51.3	+5.5
	Liberal	Javid Mirza	11,224	23.5	-10.2
	Conservative	Elliot L. Hill	9,969	20.3	+5.7
	Green	John Livingstone	2,022	4.2	+1.0
	Canadian Action	Tony Des Lauriers	332	0.7	n/a
Total valid votes			47,777	100.0
Total rejected ballots			279
Turnout			48,056	59.2

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democrat	David Christopherson	20,321	45.8
	Liberal	Stan Keyes	14,948	33.7
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	6,714	15.1
	Green	Anne Marie Pavlov	1,422	3.2
	Christian Heritage	Stephen Downey	520	1.2
	Independent	Michael James Baldasaro	345	0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Jamile Ghaddar	91	0.2
Total valid votes			44,361	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Sources

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada