Sudbury is a provincial

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, that has been represented in the

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since 1908. It is one of the two districts serving the city of

Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and to ...

. Its population in 2001 was 89,443. Sudbury was given its own riding provincially in the 1908 election, when the former riding of

Nipissing West Nipissing West was a provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the Canada, Canadian province of Ontario, active from 1902 to 1908. Due to population growth, the district of Nipissing (provincial electoral district), Nipissing ...

was divided into Sudbury and Sturgeon Falls. It initially included a large portion of the

Sudbury District The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is ...

; in 1952, the boundaries were narrowed significantly to include only the city of Sudbury, the

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of McKim and the town of

Copper Cliff This is a list of neighbourhoods in the urban core of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. This list includes only those neighbourhoods that fall within the pre-2001 city limits of Sudbury — for communities within the former suburban municipalities, see t ...

. The rest of the original Sudbury riding was incorporated into the new riding of

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. The riding of

Sudbury East Sudbury East was a provincial electoral riding in the Canadian province of Ontario, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1999. It served the easternmost portion of the former city of Sudbury, the eastern port ...

was additionally created in 1967. Federally, however, the city remained part of the Nipissing electoral district until 1947.

Geography

Sudbury electoral district consists of the part of the City of Greater Sudbury bounded on the west and south by the Greater Sudbury city limits, and on the north and east by a line drawn from the western city limit of Greater Sudbury east along the northern limit of the former Town of Walden, north, east and south along the limits of the former City of Sudbury, west along Highway 69 and Regent Street, south along Long Lake Road, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Broder, southwest along Kelly Lake, and south along the eastern limit of the former Town of Walden to the southern city limit of Greater Sudbury.

Demographics

:''According to the Canada 2011 Census'' Ethnic groups: 87.9% White, 8.4% Aboriginal
Languages: 68.6% English, 23.7% French, 2.8% Italian
Religions: 77.3% Christian (55.6% Catholic, 5.4% United Church, 4.3% Anglican, 1.7% Lutheran, 1.5% Baptist, 1.3% Pentecostal, 1.2% Presbyterian, 6.3% Other Christian), 20.8% No religion

History

The provincial electoral district was first contested in the 1908 election. Prior to its creation, the town of Sudbury was part of the district of

. In 1996, Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level. In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the

Election results

2007 electoral reform referendum

References

External links

Map of riding for 2018 election
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