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Legislature
  
House of Commons

First contested
  
1997

District webpage
  
profile, map

Elector
  
95,511

District created
  
1996

Last contested
  
2015

Province
  
Ontario

Simcoe—Grey

MP
  
Kellie Leitch Conservative

Census divisions
  
Simcoe County, Grey County, New Tecumseth

Simcoe—Grey is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.

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It was created in 1996 from parts of Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, Bruce—Grey, Simcoe Centre, Simcoe North, Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe and York—Simcoe.

It consists of the municipalities of Blue Mountains, Collingwood, Clearview, Wasaga Beach, Springwater, Essa, New Tecumseth and Adjala-Tosorontio. It had a population of 117,505 in 2001, and an area of 2,515 km².

History

It consisted initially of:

  • the part of the County of Simcoe lying to the west of and including the Town of New Tecumseth and the Township of Essa, to the west of and excluding the City of Barrie, to the east of and including the townships of Vespra and Flos, and to the south of and excluding the Township of Tiny;
  • in the County of Grey, the Town of Thornbury, the villages of Flesherton and Markdale, and the townships of Artemesia, Collingwood and Osprey.

    • In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

    This riding lost territory to Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

    Riding associations

    Riding associations are the local branches of the national political parties:

    Members of Parliament

    This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

    Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

    Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

    References

    Simcoe—Grey Wikipedia
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