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Carleton—Mississippi Mills (provincial Electoral District)
Carleton–Mississippi Mills was 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 included the town of Mississippi Mills plus the former municipalities of West Carleton, Kanata and Goulbourn. Following the 2018 election, the riding was dissolved. Most of the Ottawa portion became Kanata—Carleton, except for a sliver in the south that was transferred to Carleton. Mississippi Mills was transferred to Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston could refer to: * Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston (federal electoral district) * Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston (provincial electoral district) {{Disambiguation .... Members of Provincial Parliament Election results 2007 electoral reform referendum References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carleton-Mississippi Mills (provincial electoral district) Forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (Canada), National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the list of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, fourth-largest city and list of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and the headquarters of the federal government. The city houses numerous List of diplomatic missions in Ottawa, foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Government of Canada, Canada's government; these include the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepean--Carleton (provincial Electoral District)
Nepean may refer to: Electorates * Division of Nepean, former federal electorate in New South Wales * Electoral district of Nepean, state electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales), former state electoral district in New South Wales * Nepean (federal electoral district), a Canadian electoral district covering Nepean and other parts of western Ottawa **Nepean—Carleton (federal electoral district), former Canadian electoral district (1979 to 1988, 1997 to 2015) **Nepean—Carleton (provincial electoral district), former Canadian electoral district (1999 to 2014) Organisations and institutions * Nepean College of Advanced Education, a former higher education institution in Western Sydney, Australia * Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School, Sydney, Australia * Nepean Hospital, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia * Nepean Observatory, an observatory, part of Western Sydney University at Werrington North, New South Wales * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Ontario Electoral Reform Referendum
A referendum was held on October 10, 2007, on the question of whether to establish a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system for elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The vote was strongly in favour of the existing plurality voting system, plurality voting or first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. Background Currently, Ontario elects Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) using the single member plurality, or first-past-the-post (FPTP), system. In this system, each voter gives one vote to a candidate in an electoral district; the candidate with the most votes wins. In most cases, the party with the most elected candidates is asked to form a government. The initiative to reform this system was first proposed in 2001 by the Liberal Party opposition leader of the time, Dalton McGuinty. The impetus for the proposal was at least in part the experience of the province with two successive majority governments elected in three consecutive elections with less th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario New Democratic Party
The Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP; , NPD) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. The party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. It is Ontario’s provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. The party has formed the Official Opposition in Ontario since the 2018 general election. It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) (Ontario CCF) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). For many years, the Ontario NDP was the most successful provincial NDP branch outside the national party's western heartland. It had its first breakthrough under its first leader, Donald C. MacDonald in the 1967 provincial election, when the party elected 20 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Ontario Legislative Assembly. After the 1970 leadership convention, Stephen Lewis became leader, and guided the party to Official Opposition status in 1975, the first time since the Ontario CCF did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Ontario
The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP; , PLO) is a political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. The party has been led by Bonnie Crombie since December 2023. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, with their rival the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Progressive Conservative Party positioned to the Right-wing politics, right and the Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party (who at times aligned itself with the Liberals during minority governments), positioned to their Left-wing politics, left. The party has strong informal ties to the Liberal Party of Canada, but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships. The provincial party and the Ontario wing of the federal party were organizationally one entity until members voted to split in 1976. The Liberals lost official party status in the 2018 Ontario general election, 2018 Ontario provincial election; they had fallen to only seven seats, the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Conservative Party Of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC; ), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party, or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada. During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryism, favouring government intervention in the economy, increased spending on infrastructure, education and health care and being progressive on social issues such as equal pay for women, anti-discrimination laws, voting rights for First Nations in Canada, First Nations people and Franco-Ontarians, French-language services. In the 1990s, the party underwent a shift to Blue Toryism after the election of Mike Harris as leader, who was Premier of Ontario, premier from 1995 to 2002 and favoured a "Common Sense Revolution" platform of cutting taxes and government spending while balanced budget, balancing the budget through small government. The PCs lost po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Ontario General Election
The 2003 Ontario general election was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the province of Ontario, Canada. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves in the wake of supporting polls for the governing Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the days following the 2003 North American blackout. The election resulted in a majority government won by the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty. Leadup to the campaign In 1995, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party under Mike Harris came from third place to upset the front-running Ontario Liberal Party under Lyn McLeod and the governing Ontario New Democratic Party under Bob Rae to form a majority government. Over the following two terms, the Harris government moved to cut personal income tax rates by 30%, closed almost 40 hospitals to increase efficiency, cut the Ministry of the Environment staff in half, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepean—Carleton (provincial Electoral District)
Nepean-Carleton was a provincial electoral district in eastern Ontario, Canada. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2014. The riding was represented in the Ontario legislature by Progressive Conservative John Baird since it became a provincial riding in 1999 until he resigned in 2005 to run in the 2006 federal election. PC candidate Lisa MacLeod won the provincial by-election to fill the vacancy that was held on March 30, 2006. Following the 2018 election, the district was dissolved into Nepean, Carleton, Orléans Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston (provincial Electoral District)
Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; ) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected members are known as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal as .... This riding was created in 2015. Members of Provincial Parliament Election results References External links Map of riding for 2018 election {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston (provincial electoral district) Ontario provincial electoral districts Carleton Place Kingston, Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton (Ontario Provincial Electoral District)
Carleton is a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and lasted until provincial redistribution in 1996. In the 1999 provincial election it was redistributed into Nepean—Carleton and Lanark—Carleton. In 2007 it was abolished into Carleton—Mississippi Mills and Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington. In 2018 it was re-created as the riding of Carleton from parts of Nepean—Carleton, Carleton—Mississippi Mills and Ottawa South. Boundaries For the last three elections when Carleton existed (1987, 1990 and 1995) the riding included the municipalities of West Carleton Township, Goulbourn Township, Rideau Township, Osgoode Township and the City of Kanata. It was abolished in 1999 into Nepean—Carleton and Lanark—Carleton. The riding was re-created by the 2012 electoral redistribution from parts of Nepean—Carleton (59%), Carleton—Mississippi Mills (41%) and a small portion of Ottawa South. Members of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanata—Carleton (provincial Electoral District)
Kanata—Carleton is a provincial Electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ottawa, Ontario which was first contested in the 42nd Ontario general election, 2018 provincial election. History The riding was created federally with the 2012 redistribution process. That same process was announced by the Ontario government, meaning the provincial ridings will follow a similar boundary division for the 42nd Ontario general election, 2018 provincial election. The new riding contains almost all of the portion of the former Carleton—Mississippi Mills (provincial electoral district), Carleton—Mississippi Mills located in Ottawa, except for the portion south of Ontario Highway 7, Highway 7/Ontario Highway 417, Highway 417 that transferred Carleton (Ontario provincial electoral district), Carleton. A small fraction came from Nepean—Carleton (provincial electoral district), Nepean—Carleton surrounding the Bridlewood, Ottawa, Bridlewood neighbourhood. Its first MPP, Merril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
