Province: | Ontario |
Fed-Status: | active |
Fed-District-Number: | 35099 |
Fed-Created: | 1996 |
Fed-Election-First: | 1997 |
Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Fed-Rep: | Terry Dowdall |
Fed-Rep-Party: | Conservative |
Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | Conservative Party of Canada |
Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
Demo-Area-Ref: | [2] |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
Demo-Pop: | 116307 |
Demo-Electors: | 95511 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2015 |
Demo-Area: | 1950 |
Demo-Cd: | Simcoe, Grey |
Demo-Csd: | New Tecumseth, Springwater, Collingwood, Essa, Wasaga Beach, Clearview, Adjala-Tosorontio, Blue Mountains |
Simcoe—Grey is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
It was created in 1996 from parts of Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, Bruce—Grey, Simcoe Centre, Simcoe North, Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe and York—Simcoe.
It consists of the municipalities of Blue Mountains, Collingwood, Clearview, Wasaga Beach, Springwater, Essa, New Tecumseth and Adjala-Tosorontio. It had a population of 117,505 in 2001, and an area of 2,515 km².
It consisted initially of:
In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.
This riding lost territory to Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
According to the 2021 Canadian census[3]
Ethnic groups: 86.7% White, 3.6% Indigenous, 2.3% South Asian, 2.1% Black, 1.2% Latin American
Languages: 85.3% English, 1.7% French, 1.5% Italian, 1.0% Spanish
Religions: 57.7% Christian (25.7% Catholic, 6.9% United Church, 6.2% Anglican, 3.3% Presbyterian, 1.2% Baptist, 1.2% Pentecostal, 1.0% Christian Orthodox, 12.2% Other), 1.1% Muslim, 38.4% None
Median income: $43,200 (2020)
Average income: $55,950 (2020)
Riding associations are the local branches of the national political parties:
Party | Association name | CEO | HQ address | HQ city | Christian Heritage Party of Canada | Simcoe—Grey Christian Heritage Party Association | Iain Morris | PO Box 692 | Alliston | Conservative Party of Canada | Simcoe—Grey Conservative Association | Sandy Kursis | PO Box 2021 | Thornton ON L0L 2N0 | Liberal Party of Canada | Simcoe—Grey Federal Liberal Association | Rob Glozier | PO Box 779 | Alliston | New Democratic Party | Simcoe—Grey Federal NDP Riding Association | Denny Oliver | 7 Truax Crescent | Angus | Simcoe—Grey Federal Green Party Association | Kendra Marr | 7150 Sideroad 3/4 Nottawasaga | Creemore, Ontario | Barrie-Simcoe PPC Association | Stephen Makk | PO Box 543 | Victoria Harbour |
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
2021 federal election redistributed results[4] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
26,910 | 47.42 | ||||
15,822 | 27.88 | ||||
7,476 | 13.17 | ||||
3,938 | 6.94 | ||||
2,356 | 4.15 | ||||
Others | 242 | 0.43 |
2011 federal election redistributed results[5] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
26,764 | 48.43 | ||||
9,631 | 17.43 | ||||
Others | 8,806 | 15.94 | |||
7,000 | 12.67 | ||||
3,058 | 5.53 |
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.