Haldimand—Norfolk (provincial electoral district)

Haldimand—Norfolk

Ontario electoral district
Haldimand—Norfolk in relation to other southwestern Ontario electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Toby Barrett Progressive Conservative
District created	1996
First contested	1999
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	108,050
Electors (2007)	74,362
Area (km²)	3,073
Pop. density (per km²)	35.2
Census divisions	Haldimand-Norfolk
Census subdivisions	Haldimand, Norfolk

For the federal electoral district, see Haldimand—Norfolk.

Haldimand—Norfolk is a provincial electoral district in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 2007 provincial election. 88.0% of the riding came from Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant while 12.0% came from Erie—Lincoln.

The riding includes all of the counties of Haldimand and Norfolk except those parts of Haldimand found in the Six Nations and New Credit Indian Reserves.

The riding also existed from 1934 to 1987.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Haldimand—Norfolk
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created
19th	1934–1937		Richard Colter	Liberal
20th	1937–1943		Eric Cross	Liberal
21st	1943–1944		William Walsh	Progressive Conservative
	1944–1945		Charles Martin	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955		James Allan	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977		Gordon Miller	Liberal
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995		Norm Jamison	New Democratic
36th	1995–1999		Toby Barrett	Progressive Conservative
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Toby Barrett	22,066	52.22	-8.59
	New Democratic	Ian Nichols	9,786	23.16	+3.74
	Liberal	Karen Robinson	8,331	19.72	+2.62
	Green	Anne Faulkner	2,071	4.90	+2.81
	Libertarian	Bradley Mottashed	0	0.00	–
Total valid votes			42,254	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-6.16
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Toby Barrett	25,203	60.81	-0.13
	New Democratic	Ian Nichols	8,048	19.42	+8.88
	Liberal	Greg Crone	7,087	17.10	-5.15
	Green	Justin Blake	868	2.09	-3.11
	Family Coalition	John G. Gots	242	0.58	-0.49
Total valid votes			41,448	100.0
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			148	0.36
Turnout			41,596	53.31
Eligible voters			78,030
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-4.51
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Toby Barrett	26,105	60.94
	Liberal	Lorraine Bergstrand	9,534	22.25
	New Democratic	Jan Watson	4,515	10.54
	Green	Chad Squizzato	2,229	5.20
	Family Coalition	Steven Elgersma	457	1.07
Total valid votes			42,840	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	28,566	68.6
	Mixed member proportional	13,064	31.4
	Total valid votes	41,630	100.0

Sources

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results