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- For the current federal electoral district, see Sudbury (electoral district)
Sudbury is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1905.
Its population in 2001 was 89,443. The district is one of two serving the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
Sudbury had its own riding provincially as early as 1905, although the city remained part of the federal Nipissing district until 1947. It initially included a large portion of the Sudbury District; in 1952, the boundaries were narrowed significantly to include only the city of Sudbury, the geographic township of McKim and the town of Copper Cliff. The rest of the original Sudbury riding was incorporated into the new riding of Nickel Belt. The riding of Sudbury East was additionally created in 1967.
[edit] Geography
Sudbury electoral district consists of the part of the City of Greater Sudbury bounded on the west and south by the Greater Sudbury city limits, and on the north and east by a line drawn from the wwestern city limit of Greater Sudbury east along the northern limit of the former Town of Walden, north, east and south along the limits of the former City of Sudbury, west along Highway 69 and Regent Street, south along Long Lake Road, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Broder, southwest along Kelly Lake, and south along the eastern limit of the former Town of Walden to the southern city limit of Greater Sudbury.
[edit] History
The provincial electoral district was created in 1905.
In 1996, 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.[1]
[edit] Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
[edit] Election results
| 2003 Ontario provincial election : Sudbury edit |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
+/- |
Expenditures |
| |
Liberal |
(x)Rick Bartolucci |
24,631 |
68.98 |
|
$58,280.81 |
| |
Progressive Conservative |
Mila Wong |
5,068 |
14.19 |
|
$34,319.74 |
| |
New Democratic Party |
Harvey Wyers |
4,999 |
14.00 |
|
$16,359.88 |
| |
Green |
Luke Norton |
1,009 |
2.83 |
|
$508.44 |
| Total valid votes |
35,707 |
100.00 |
|
|
| Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots |
274 |
|
|
|
| Turnout |
35,981 |
55.95 |
|
|
| Electors on the lists |
64,304 |
|
|
|
- ^ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”
[edit] External links
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