Markham (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Markham was a provincial electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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created in 1986. Also known as Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville, it was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

that elected representatives to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1988 to 2000.

Federal district

Markham riding was created from parts of York North

York North

York North was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from Confederation in 1867 until 2004. It is also an electoral district that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 2007...

and York—Peel

York—Peel

York—Peel was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Peel—Dufferin—Simcoe, York North and York—Simcoe ridings...

ridings.
It initially consisted of the towns of Markham and Whitchurch-Stouffville in the Regional Municipality of York.

The name of the electoral district was changed in 1989 to "Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville".

The electoral district was redistributed 1996 into Markham, Oak Ridges

Oak Ridges (electoral district)

Oak Ridges was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

and Thornhill

Thornhill (electoral district)

Thornhill is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.It covers the community of Thornhill, Ontario, which is made up of portions of Vaughan and Markham, and was created in 1996 from parts of...

ridings.

The new Markham riding consisted of the part of the Town of Markham east of Highway No. 404 and south of 16th Avenue.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Markham—Unionville

Markham—Unionville

Markham—Unionville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.-Boundaries:...

and Oak Ridges—Markham

Oak Ridges—Markham

Oak Ridges—Markham is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 169,645., with 136,755 electors, the highest of any riding in Canada...

ridings.

Members of Parliament

Bill Attewell
Bill Attewell
Bill Attewell is a former Canadian politician.A corporate executive, Attewell was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Don Valley East defeating Liberal cabinet minister David Smith in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

, 1988-1993
Jag Bhaduria
Jag Bhaduria
Jagdish Singh Bhaduria is a former Canadian politician....

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

/Independent, 1993-1997
H. James Jones
H. James Jones
H. James Jones is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000, initially as a Progressive Conservative and later as a member of the Canadian Alliance....

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

/Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...

, 1997-2000
John McCallum
John McCallum
John McCallum, PC, MP is a Liberal Canadian politician, economist and university professor. Following the 2006 Federal Election, he became the Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet...

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

, 2000-2003

Markham

|-

|Bill Attewell

Bill Attewell

Bill Attewell is a former Canadian politician.A corporate executive, Attewell was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Don Valley East defeating Liberal cabinet minister David Smith in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian...

|align="right"|36,673
|-

|Jag Bhaduria

Jag Bhaduria

Jagdish Singh Bhaduria is a former Canadian politician....

|align="right"|21,973
|-

|Susan Krone
|align="right"|6,209
|-

|John A. Gamble

John A. Gamble

John Albert Gamble was a far-right Canadian politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 federal election and re-elected in the 1980 election representing the riding of York North.He was a candidate at the 1983 Progressive Conservative...

|align="right"|3,643
|-

|Ian Hutchison
|align="right"|568
|}

Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville

|-

|Jag Bhaduria

Jag Bhaduria

Jagdish Singh Bhaduria is a former Canadian politician....

|align="right"|34,263
|-

|Bill Attewell

Bill Attewell

|align="right"|18,414
|-

|Joe Sherren
|align="right"|16,965
|-

|Jack Grant

Jack Grant

Jack W. Grant was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Fitzroy in the VFL.Grant usually played on the half forward or half back flanks....

|align="right"|1,600
|-

|Sheldon Bergson
|align="right"|927
|-

|Stephen R. Porter
|align="right"|449
|-

|Paul Wang
|align="right"|444
|-

|Dean Papadopoulos
|align="right"|83
|}

Markham

|-

|H. James Jones

H. James Jones

H. James Jones is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000, initially as a Progressive Conservative and later as a member of the Canadian Alliance....

|align="right"|20,449
|-

|Gobinder Randhawa
|align="right"|16,810
|-

|John Paloc
|align="right"|4,947
|-

|Jag Bhaduria

Jag Bhaduria

Jagdish Singh Bhaduria is a former Canadian politician....

|align="right"|1,584
|-

|Bhanu Gaunt
|align="right"|1,482
|-

|Stephen R. Porter
|align="right"|258
|-

|Jeff Baulch
|align="right"|218
|}
|-

|John McCallum

John McCallum

John McCallum, PC, MP is a Liberal Canadian politician, economist and university professor. Following the 2006 Federal Election, he became the Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet...

|align="right"| 32,104
|-

|H. James Jones

H. James Jones

H. James Jones is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000, initially as a Progressive Conservative and later as a member of the Canadian Alliance....

|align="right"| 9,015
|-

|David Scrymgeour

David Scrymgeour

T. David Scrymgeour is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is the founder of a group of companies in the information and training industries. Politically he has worked with the Green Party of Canada, the Green Party of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative...

|align="right"|5,085
|-

|Janice Hagan
|align="right"|1,129
|-

|Bernadette Manning
|align="right"|493
|-

|Akber Choudhry
|align="right"|222
|-

|Jim Conrad

Jim Conrad

Jim Conrad is a Canadian politician. He has campaigned for public office on several occasions, and has been active with no fewer than five different political parties throughout the course of his career....

|align="right"|130
|}

Members of Provincial Parliament

W. Donald Cousens, Progressive Conservative (1987-1994)
David Tsubouchi
David Tsubouchi
is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.-Education:...

, Progressive Conservative (1995-2003)
Tony C. Wong, Liberal (2003-2006)

2007 by-election

Tony Wong resigned in the fall of 2006 to successfully seek election to York Regional Council. His provincial seat was filled in a by-election on February 8, 2007. However the riding will be abolished at the October 4, 2007 provincial election

Ontario general election, 2007

The Ontario general election of 2007 was held on October 10, 2007 to elect members of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular...

, and redistributed between the new provincial ridings of Markham—Unionville

Markham—Unionville

Markham—Unionville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.-Boundaries:...

and Oak Ridges—Markham

Oak Ridges—Markham

as its federal counterpart already has been.

The Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

candidate Michael Chan, the Liberal Party of Canada

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

federal riding association president, defeated Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

candidate Alex Yuan. The Ontario New Democratic Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...

candidate is Janice Hagan. She was also the party's candidate in the 2003 General Election. The Green Party

Green Party of Ontario

The Green Party of Ontario is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates...

candidate is Bernadette Manning. She was also the party's candidate in the 2003 General Election.

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|By-election, February 8, 2007
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
|-

| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

|Michael Chan
|align=right|9,080
|align=right|49.3%
|align=right|-1.4%
|-

| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Ontario New Democratic Party

Green Party of Ontario

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...

Ontario Libertarian Party

The Ontario Libertarian Party is a political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy, Vince Miller, and others, inspired by the formation three years earlier of the US Libertarian Party. The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and...

| Jay Miller
|align=right|126
|align=right|0.7%
|align=right|*
|-

Election results

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 2003

Ontario general election, 2003

The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

Ontario Liberal Party

David Tsubouchi

is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.-Education:...

|align=right|21,257
|align=right|40.33
|align=right| -22.72
|-

| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat

Ontario New Democratic Party

Green Party of Ontario

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

|Patrick Redmond
|align=right|697
|align=right|1.32
|align=right| +0.36
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 1999

Ontario general election, 1999

An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

David Tsubouchi

|align=right|26,083
|align=right|63.05
|align=right| -1.76
|-

| style="width: 185px"| Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

Green Party of Ontario

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

|Patrick Redmond
|align=right|399
|align=right|0.96
|align=right| -0.93
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 1995

Ontario general election, 1995

The Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada...

David Tsubouchi

|align=right|37,314
|align=right|64.81
|align=right| +14.84
|-

| style="width: 185px"| Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

|Patrick Redmond
|align=right|1088
|align=right|1.89
|align=right| -0.23
|-

| style="width: 185px"|Natural Law
|Stephen Porter
|align=right|626
|align=right|1.09
|align=right|
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 1990

Ontario general election, 1990

The Ontario general election of 1990 was held on September 6, 1990, to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada....

Don Cousens

W. Donald Cousens is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1994, and briefly served as a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller...

|align=right|25,595
|align=right|49.97
|align=right| +5.77
|-

| style="width: 185px"| Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

|Frank Scarpitti

Frank Scarpitti

Frank Scarpitti is the current mayor of Markham, Ontario.Born in Ontario in 1960 and moved to Markham from Toronto in 1965. Scarpitti was appointed mayor from 1992 to 1994 following the death of Tony Roman, but was defeated by Don Cousens in the 1994 municipal election...

|align=right|15,128
|align=right|29.53
|align=right| -13.10
|-

| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat

Ontario New Democratic Party

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

Ontario Libertarian Party

|Ian Hutchison
|align=right|642
|align=right|1.25
|align=right|
|-

| style="width: 185px"|Independent
|Gary Walsh
|align=right|311
|align=right|0.61
|align=right|
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 1987

Ontario general election, 1987

The Ontario general election of 1987 was held on September 10, 1987, to elect members of the 34th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada.The governing Ontario Liberal Party, led by David Peterson, was returned to power with a large majority...

Don Cousens

Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

|Anne Swarbrick

Anne Swarbrick

Anne Swarbrick is a former Canadian politician, public employee, labour representative and senior administrator of nonprofit organizations. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae...

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

External links

Parliamentary website: Markham
Parliamentary website: Markham-Whitchurch-Stouffville
Parliamentary website: Markham
Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results

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Federal district

Members of Parliament

Markham

Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville

Markham

Members of Provincial Parliament

2007 by-election

Election results

See also

External links