Scarborough—Rouge Park | |
Province: | Ontario |
Coordinates: | 43.816°N -79.178°W |
Fed-Status: | active |
Fed-District-Number: | 35097 |
Fed-Created: | 2013 |
Fed-Abolished: | 2023 |
Fed-Election-First: | 2015 |
Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Fed-Rep: | Gary Anandasangaree |
Fed-Rep-Party: | Liberal |
Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | Liberal Party of Canada |
Demo-Area-Ref: | [1] |
Demo-Pop-Ref: | [2] |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2021 |
Demo-Pop: | 102254 |
Demo-Electors: | 71291 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2015 |
Demo-Area: | 57 |
Demo-Cd: | Toronto |
Demo-Csd: | Toronto |
Scarborough—Rouge Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.
Scarborough—Rouge Park was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election that took place on October 19, 2015. It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Pickering—Scarborough East (49%), Scarborough—Rouge River (36%) and Scarborough-Guildwood (14%).
The riding consists of the eastern part of the Scarborough district of Toronto. It contains the neighbourhoods of Morningside Heights, Rouge, Port Union, West Rouge, Highland Creek, West Hill (east of Morningside Avenue) and Malvern (east of Neilson Road).
According to the 2021 Canadian census[3]
Ethnic groups: 35.4% South Asian, 23.6% White, 15.0% Black, 8.9% Filipino, 4.4% Chinese, 1.4% Latin American, 1.3% West Asian, 1.1% Southeast Asian, 1.0% Arab
Languages: 55.2% English, 10.6% Tamil, 4.3% Tagalog, 1.9% Bengali, 2.1% Urdu, 1.8% Cantonese, 1.5% Punjabi, 1.4% Gujarati, 1.1% Mandarin, 1.0% Hindi
Religions: 47.9% Christian (22.9% Catholic, 2.8% Anglican, 2.5% Christian Orthodox, 2.5% Pentecostal, 1.3% United Church, 1.2% Baptist, 1.1% Presbyterian, 13.6% Other), 20.0% Hindu, 12.0% Muslim, 1.4% Sikh, 1.1% Buddhist, 17.0% None
Median income: $37,200 (2020)
Average income: $47,840 (2020)
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
2011 federal election redistributed results[4] | |||||
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Party | Vote | % | |||
14,157 | 34.76 | ||||
12,865 | 31.59 | ||||
12,620 | 30.99 | ||||
974 | 2.39 | ||||
Others | 113 | 0.28 |