Kitchener South—Hespeler (federal electoral district)

{{short description|Federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=November 2024}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox Canada electoral district

| province = Ontario

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| caption = Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2015 federal election

| fed-status = active

| fed-district-number = 35047

| fed-created = 2013

| fed-abolished =

| fed-election-first = 2015

| fed-election-last = 2021

| fed-rep = Valerie Bradford

| fed-rep-party = Liberal

| demo-pop-ref = Statistics Canada: 2011

| demo-area-ref =

| demo-electors-ref =

| demo-census-date = 2011

| demo-pop = 97673

| demo-electors = 72,359

| demo-electors-date = 2015

| demo-area = 111

| demo-cd = Waterloo

| demo-csd = Kitchener (part), Cambridge (part)

}}

Kitchener South—Hespeler ({{langx|fr|Kitchener-Sud—Hespeler}}) is a federal electoral district in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since the 2015 election.

History

Kitchener South—Hespeler was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts as a result of a redistribution process conducted by Elections Canada from 2012 to 2013.{{cite news | url = http://www.redecoupage-federal-redistribution.ca/content.asp?section=on&dir=now/reports/35112&document=index&lang=e | author = Elections Canada | author-link = Elections Canada | title =Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario | access-date = 2014-09-17}}

The riding did not undergo any boundary changes following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution.

Geography

Following the 2011 Census and a Canadian Parliament decision to increase the number of Federal electoral districts from 308 to 338, Elections Canada conducted a redistribution process that began with the establishment of Electoral Boundaries Commissions for each province in 2012. As a result of the work of the Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario, which was concluded in July 2013, the Kitchener South—Hespeler district was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts.{{cite news | url = http://www.redecoupage-federal-redistribution.ca/content.asp?section=on&dir=now/reports/35047&document=index&lang=e | author = Elections Canada | author-link = Elections Canada | title =Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario | access-date = 2015-03-10}}

The new Kitchener South—Hespeler electoral district includes:

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=2022-02-09 |title=Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Kitchener South--Hespeler [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}

Ethnic groups: 63.5% White, 13.3% South Asian, 5.9% Black, 3.2% Latin American, 2.6% Indigenous, 2.0% Southeast Asian, 2.0% Arab, 1.7% Chinese, 1.5% Filipino, 1.4% West Asian

Languages: 65.6% English, 3.4% Punjabi, 2.6% Spanish, 1.8% Arabic, 1.5% Portuguese, 1.3% Gujarati, 1.3% Urdu, 1.1% Serbian, 1.1% Romanian, 1.0% Polish, 1.0% French

Religions: 52.0% Christian (23.8% Catholic, 3.5% Christian Orthodox, 2.8% Anglican, 2.2% United Church, 2.2% Lutheran, 1.8% Baptist, 1.8% Pentecostal, 1.7% Presbyterian, 12.2% Other), 7.8% Muslim, 4.7% Hindu, 4.1% Sikh, 1.0% Buddhist, 29.4% None

Median income: $42,800 (2020)

Average income: $53,600 (2020)

Members of Parliament

{{CanMP}}

{{CanMP nodata|Kitchener South—Hespeler
Riding created from Cambridge, Kitchener Centre,
and Kitchener—Conestoga}}

{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2015

| ToYr = 2019

| Assembly# = 42

| CanParty = Liberal

| RepName = Marwan Tabbara

| RepTerms# = 3

| PartyTerms# = 2

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{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2019

| ToYr = 2020

| Assembly# = 43

| AssemblyTerm = 2

| #ByElections = 1

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{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2020

| ToYr = 2021

| CanParty = Independent

| PartyTerm# = 1

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{{CanMP row

| FromYr = 2021

| ToYr =

| Assembly# = 44

| CanParty = Liberal

| RepName = Valerie Bradford

}}

{{CanMP end}}

Electoral history

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| xAxisTitle=Year

| yAxisTitle=Vote share

| yAxisMin=0

| yAxisMax=0.6

| yAxisFormat=%

| legend=Legend

| y1Title=Liberal

| y2Title=Conservative

| y3Title=NDP

| y4Title=Green

| y5Title=PPC

| linewidth=2

| x=2011,2015,2019,2021

| y1=0.1892,0.4227,0.402,0.375

| y2=0.5119,0.3668,0.335,0.355

| y3=0.2576,0.1556,0.133,0.163

| y4=0.04,0.0369,0.109,0.034

| y5=,,0.019,0.067

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| caption=Graph of election results in Kitchener South—Hespeler (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

| align=center

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{{2025 Canadian federal election/Kitchener South—Hespeler}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2021|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}

{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Valerie Bradford|18,596|37.5|-2.7|$72,079.16}}

{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Tyler Calver|17,649|35.5|+2.0|$90,043.50}}

{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Suresh Arangath|8,079|16.3|+3.0|$10,706.94}}

{{CANelec|CA|PPC|Melissa Baumgaetner|3,351|6.7|+4.8|$4.497.35}}

{{CANelec|CA|Green|Gabe Rose|1,710|3.4|-7.5|$530.30}}

{{CANelec|CA|Independent|C.A. Morrison|119|0.2|N/A|$0.00}}

{{CANelec|CA|Rhinoceros|Stephen Davis|93|0.2|N/A|$0.00}}

{{CANelec|CA|Marxist-Leninist|Elaine Baetz|57|0.1|±0.0|$0.00}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|49,654|99.1}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|474|0.9}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|50,128|62.0}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|80,885}}

{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|-2.4}}

{{CANelec/source|Source: Elections Canada{{cite web |title=List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election |url=https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/lst&document=index&lang=e |website=Elections Canada |access-date=2 September 2021}}}}

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{{2019 Canadian federal election/Kitchener South—Hespeler}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2015|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}

{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Marwan Tabbara|20,215|42.27|+23.34|$69,489.97}}

{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Marian Gagné|17,544|36.68|-14.51|$97,214.81}}

{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Lorne Bruce|7,440|15.56|-10.21|$3,785.97}}

{{CANelec|CA|Green|David Weber|1,767|3.69|-0.31|$2,785.51}}

{{CANelec|CA|Libertarian|Nathan Lajeunesse|772|1.61|–|$1,761.68}}

{{CANelec|CA|Marxist-Leninist|Elaine Baetz|91|0.19|–|–}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|47,829|99.46 | |$205,534.07}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|259|0.54|–}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|48,088|65.92|–}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|72,953}}

{{CANelec/notgain|CA|Liberal|Conservative|+18.93%}}

{{CANelec/source|Source: Elections Canada[http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/candidates?L=e&ED=35047&EV=41&EV_TYPE=1&PC=&PROV=ON&PROVID=35&MAPID=&QID=8&PAGEID=17&TPAGEID=&PD=&STAT_CODE_ID=-1 Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Kitchener South—Hespeler, 30 September 2015][http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/canlim&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815061116/http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand%2Fcanlim&document=index&lang=e |date=2015-08-15 }}|}}

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class="wikitable"
colspan="4" | 2011 federal election redistributed results[http://www.punditsguide.ca/riding.php?riding=1993 Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections]
bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party

! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Vote

! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative|background}} |  

| Conservative

align=right| 20,304align=right| 51.19
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}} |  

| New Democratic

align=right| 10,219align=right| 25.76
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}} |  

| Liberal

align=right| 7,506align=right| 18.92
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Green|background}} |  

| Green

align=right| 1,587align=right| 4.00
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independents|background}} |  

| Others

align=right| 47align=right| 0.12

See also

Notes

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