Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington was a provincial

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, which was represented in the

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from 2007 to 2018. The new riding was created in 2003 from parts of

Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2 ...

and Lanark—Carleton ridings. In the 2007 provincial election, the MPPs representing the two predecessor ridings of Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington and Lanark—Carleton chose to run, respectively, in the newly created ridings of

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to the west of the new riding, and

Carleton—Mississippi Mills Carleton—Mississippi Mills (formerly known as Lanark—Carleton and Carleton—Lanark) was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. This riding was created in 19 ...

to its east. As a result, the riding had no incumbent, and was contested by candidates who had never previously held office.

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(PC) candidate

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won by a narrow margin of less than one thousand votes, one of only three victories for a PC candidate in a non-incumbent-held riding. Hillier would go on to win two additional victories in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington; he was the only MPP to represent the district during its eleven-year existence. The district was abolished at the time of the 2018 general election; the Lanark County and Frontenac components of the riding were redistributed to the new district of Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, while Lennox and Addington County was redistributed to the new district of

Hastings—Lennox and Addington Hastings—Lennox and Addington is a federal electoral district in Ontario. Hastings—Lennox and Addington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came ...

Members of Provincial Parliament

Election results

2007 electoral reform referendum

References

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontariovotes2011/#/41

External links

Constituency website of MPP Randy Hillier
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