Kitchener South—Hespeler (provincial electoral district)

Kitchener South—Hespeler
Ontario electoral district
	Kitchener Centre in relation to Southern Ontario ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
;
District created	2015
First contested	2018
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	97,673
Electors (2015 Federal)	72,359
Area (km²)[1]	111
Pop. density (per km²)	879.9
Census division(s)	Waterloo
Census subdivision(s)	Kitchener, Cambridge

Kitchener South—Hespeler (French: Kitchener-Sud—Hespeler) is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, which is represented for the first time in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario following the 42nd Ontario general election.

Geography

Kitchener South—Hespeler was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts following the passage of the Representation Act, 2015[2] using the boundaries set out by the 2013 Federal Representation Order.

The new Kitchener South—Hespeler electoral district includes:

The portion of the City of Cambridge lying northerly of Ontario Highway 401
The portion of the City of Kitchener lying:
- Southerly of the Conestoga Parkway
- Easterly of Fischer-Hallman Road
- Westerly of Ontario Highway 8 between the Conestoga Parkway and Fairway Road
- Westerly of the border between the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener between Fairway Road and Ontario Highway 401

Prominement Places

Kitchener South - Hespeler is home to several prominent places for the region including:

Conestoga College's Doon and Cambridge Campuses
MacLennan Park
Huron Natural Area
Hespeler Village
Chicoppe Skil Hill
Toyota Manufacturing Plant - major employer for the region
Loblaws Distribution Centre - major employer for the region
CF Fairview
Sportsworld Shopping Centre
Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory
Homer Watson House & Gallery
Grand Valley Instuition for Women
Ken Sieling Waterloo Region Museum and Doon Heritage Village

Members of Provincial Parliament

Kitchener South-Hespeler
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Kitchener South—Hespeler Riding created from Kitchener—Conestoga , Kitchener Centre and Cambridge
42nd	2018–Present		Amy Fee	Progressive Conservative

Electoral history

2018 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Amy Fee	16,511	38.86
	New Democratic	Fitz Vanderpool	15,741	37.05
	Liberal	Surekha Shenoy	6,335	14.91
	Green	David Weber	3,198	7.53
	Libertarian	Nathan Andre Lajeunesse	423	1.00
	Independent	Narine Sookram	275	0.65
Total valid votes				100.0
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

Notes

Statistics Canada: 2011
"Representation Act, 2015, S.O. 2015, c. 31, Sched. 1". www.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
"Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

External links

Map of riding for 2018 election

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[ReferenceA-1] Statistics Canada: 2011

[2] "Representation Act, 2015, S.O. 2015, c. 31, Sched. 1". www.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2017-06-15.

[3] "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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