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Nipissing—Timiskaming

Nipissing—Timiskaming

Ontario electoral district
Nipissing—Timiskaming in relation to the other Ontario ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Anthony Rota Liberal
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	90,996
Electors (2015)	70,342
Area (km²)[2]	15,313
Pop. density (per km²)	5.9
Census division(s)	Nipissing District, Parry Sound District
Census subdivision(s)	North Bay, Temiskaming Shores, East Ferris, Powassan, Callander, Bonfield, Mattawa

Nipissing—Timiskaming is a federal electoral districtinOntario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The riding was formed by the amalgamation of the former Nipissing riding with the southeastern portion of the former Timiskaming—Cochrane riding. The 2011 electoral results in this riding were challenged in court on the grounds that there were "irregularities, fraud or corrupt or illegal practices that affected the result of the election".^[3]

Nipissing—Timiskaming consists of:

• the Territorial District of Nipissing, excluding:
  • the Municipality of West Nipissing;
  • the southeast part of the district;
  • the Town of Kearney;
• in the Territorial District of Parry Sound, the Town of Powassan and the townships of Nipissing and North Himsworth; and
• the part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming lying south and east of a line drawn from the eastern limit of the district west along the northern border of the Townships of Harris, Dymond, Hudson, Lundy, Auld and Speight, south along the western border of the townships of Speight, Van Nostrand, Leo and Medina to the southern limit of the district.

This riding lost small portions of territory to Timmins-James Bay and gained a small portion from Nickel Belt during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

The seat's present federal MP is Anthony Rota, the former Speaker of the House.

Demographics[edit]

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[4]

Ethnic groups: 81.7% White, 14.9% Indigenous, 1.0% South Asian
Languages: 79.6% English, 13.8% French

Religions: 58.9% Christian (36.3% Catholic, 6.1% United Church, 4.0% Anglican, 1.1% Pentecostal, 1.0% Presbyterian, 10.4% Other), 39.2% None

Median income: $39,600 (2020)
Average income: $49,400 (2020)

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Election results[edit]

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Graph of election results in Nippissing—Tiskaming (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Despite the fact that 99% of this riding stayed the same after the 2012 redistribution, based on the results of the 2011 election — in which Aspin defeated Rota by a margin of just 18 votes — the minor boundary changes were enough to make the seat a notional Liberal riding.^[11] The riding lost two Conservative voting areas in the north (Hudson Township and Harris Township) while gaining the Nipissing 10 Indian Reserve,^[12] where the Tories finished third.

Note: This vote was subject to mandatory recount because of the margin of win being less than 1/1000 of the total votes.

See also[edit]

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References[edit]

• "Nipissing—Timiskaming (Code 35057) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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