Carleton—Mississippi Mills (provincial electoral district)

Carleton–Mississippi Mills

Ontario electoral district
File:Ottawa-carletonmississippimills.PNG Carleton–Mississippi Mills in relation to other Ottawa electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Jack MacLaren Progressive Conservative
District created	2004
First contested	2007
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	128,915
Electors (2007)	91,649
Area (km²)	1,619
Pop. density (per km²)	79.6
Census divisions	Ottawa, Lanark County
Census subdivisions	Mississippi Mills, West Carleton, Kanata, Goulbourn

Carleton–Mississippi Mills is a provincial electoral district in eastern Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 2007 provincial election. 78.7% of the riding came from Lanark–Carleton while 21.3% came from Nepean–Carleton.

The riding includes the town of Mississippi Mills plus the former municipalities of West Carleton, Kanata and Goulbourn.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Carleton—Mississippi Mills
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Lanark—Carleton and Nepean—Carleton
39th	2007–2011		Norm Sterling	Progressive Conservative
40th	2011–2014		Jack MacLaren
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack MacLaren	30,590	47.49	−2.80
	Liberal	Rosalyn Stevens	20,472	31.78	−2.30
	New Democratic	John Hansen	8,744	13.57	+2.23
	Green	Andrew West	4,614	7.16	+3.85
Total valid votes			64,420	100.0	+14.54
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−0.25
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack MacLaren	28,246	50.29	+2.46
	Liberal	Megan Cornell	19,144	34.08	+2.15
	New Democratic	Liam Duff	6,371	11.34	+3.72
	Green	Scott Simser	1,857	3.31	−7.19
	Family Coalition	Cynthia Bredfeldt	549	0.98	+0.18
Total valid votes			56,167	100.00	+6.92
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			204	0.36	−0.09
Turnout			56,371	53.50	−1.80
Eligible voters			105,368		+10.42
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.16
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Norm Sterling	25,126	47.83	−3.5
	Liberal	Megan Cornell	16,776	31.93	−5.9
	Green	John Ogilvie	5,517	10.50
	New Democratic	Michael Hadskis	4,002	7.62	+2.1
	Libertarian	Rob Alexander	693	1.32
	Family Coalition	Reynolds James	419	0.80
Total valid votes			52,533	100.0
Total rejected ballots			238	0.45
Turnout			52,771	55.30
Eligible voters			95,421
Note: Change in percentage of vote calculated on results redistributed from predecessor ridings.
Source(s)

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	36,565	70.5
	Mixed member proportional	15,326	29.5
	Total valid votes	51,891	100.0