Province: | Ontario |
Fed-Status: | active |
Fed-District-Number: | 35107 |
Fed-Created: | 1996 |
Fed-Election-First: | 1997 |
Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Fed-Rep: | Charlie Angus |
Fed-Rep-Party: | NDP |
Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | New Democratic Party of Canada |
Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
Demo-Area-Ref: | [2] |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
Demo-Pop: | 83104 |
Demo-Electors: | 60202 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2015 |
Demo-Area: | 251599 |
Demo-Cd: | Cochrane District, Timiskaming District |
Demo-Csd: | Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Black River-Matheson, Moosonee, Marten Falls, Attawapiskat First Nation, Fort Albany, Moose Factory |
Timmins—James Bay (French: '''Timmins—Baie James''') is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. Its population in 2011 was 83,104. Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk.[3]
The district includes the extreme eastern part of the District of Kenora, all of the District of Cochrane except for the central western part, and a small part south of Timmins, and all of the District of Timiskaming except for the extreme southeastern part.
Timmins—James Bay is the 11th largest in Canada (in Ontario it is second largest to Kenora).[4]
Timmins—James Bay consists of
Timmins—James Bay was created in 1996 from parts of Cochrane—Superior and Timiskaming—Cochrane ridings.
It consisted initially of:
In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.
This riding gained a fraction of territory from Nipissing—Timiskaming during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
In the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding gains the Highway 11 corridor and the Chapleau area from Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing. Loses Marten Falls 65 and the area south of the Albany River and generally west of the Kenogami River to Thunder Bay—Superior North. Loses the southeastern quarter of Timiskaming District (James eastward and Chamberlain southward) to Nipissing—Timiskaming.
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
According to the 2021 Canadian census[5]
Ethnic groups: 74.7% White, 22.0% Indigenous, 1.3% South Asian
Languages: 63.1% English, 25.8% French, 1.7% Cree
Religions: 63.8% Christian (44.4% Catholic, 4.5% Anglican, 3.3% United Church, 1.5% Pentecostal, 1.2% Baptist, 1.0% Anabaptist, 7.9% Other), 33.6% None
Median income: $41,600 (2020)
Average income: $52,250 (2020)
2021 federal election redistributed results[6] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
14,582 | 35.79 | ||||
10,682 | 26.22 | ||||
10,257 | 25.18 | ||||
4,999 | 12.27 | ||||
162 | 0.40 | ||||
Others | 58 | 0.14 |
2011 federal election redistributed results[7] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
16,833 | 49.95 | ||||
10,743 | 31.88 | ||||
5,387 | 15.98 | ||||
740 | 2.20 |
Note: Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.