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Simcoe—Grey (provincial electoral district)

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District created
  
1999

Last contested
  
2014

Elector
  
93,705

First contested
  
1999

Population (2006)
  
125,985

Simcoe—Grey (provincial electoral district)

Legislature
  
Legislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP
  
Jim Wilson Progressive Conservative

Census divisions
  
Simcoe County, Grey County, New Tecumseth

Simcoe—Grey is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

Contents

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

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

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.

    Members of Provincial Parliament

    This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

    Election results

    ^ Change based on redistributed results

    References

    Simcoe—Grey (provincial electoral district) Wikipedia
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