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The Ontario federal electoral districts each elect one representative to the House of Commons. These districts are defined by Elections Canada . Their boundaries are also used for provincial electoral districts , with exceptions in Northern Ontario .
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada.It has been represented by Leah Taylor Roy, a Liberal, since 2021.. It encompasses a portion of Ontario previously included in the electoral districts of Newmarket—Aurora, Oak Ridges—Markham, and Richmond Hill.
These ridings, however, have experienced territorial changes since their inception. On October 27, 2011, the Conservative government proposed Bill C-20, [ 1 ] a measure that would expand the House of Commons from 308 to 338 seats, with 15 additional seats for Ontario, 6 additional seats each for Alberta and British Columbia, and 3 for Quebec. [ 2 ]
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs 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, which took place 19 October 2015. [3] The riding was originally intended to be named Ville-Marie. [4]
University—Rosedale is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. The riding is currently represented by Chrystia Freeland , former Minister of Finance and former deputy prime minister of Canada .
A 2017 study found, that 41 of the 338 federal ridings, have populations where visible minorities/non-Whites form the majority of the riding. Ontario and British Columbia have the largest number of ridings where visible minorities form the majority. Quebec has the most ridings with less than 5% visible minorities. [40]
The riding was created out of parts of Jeanne-Le Ber (51%) and LaSalle—Émard (49%) plus a small section of territory between the Lachine Canal and the Le Sud-Ouest borough boundary taken from Westmount—Ville-Marie and an adjacent uninhabited section from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine.
The riding spans the former linguistic divide of the city, Saint Laurent Boulevard. South of the riding is the neighbourhood of Park Extension, which is very Liberal. The central part of the riding, around Villeray, was Bloc Québécois territory for almost two decades before swinging heavily to the NDP in the 2011 federal election. Meanwhile ...