Nepean—Carleton (provincial electoral district)

Nepean-Carleton is a provincial electoral district in eastern Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

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.

History

The riding was created in 1999, to match its federal counterpart. It was made up of 62% of Nepean, 43% of Carleton and 11% of Ottawa—Rideau.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Nepean
34th	1987–1990		Hans Daigeler	Liberal
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999		John Baird	Progressive Conservative
Nepean—Carleton
37th	1999–2003		John Baird	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2005
	2005–2007		Lisa MacLeod
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Lisa MacLeod	30,901	46.77	−7.71
	Liberal	Jack Uppal	21,974	33.26	+6.29
	New Democratic	Ric Dagenais	8,628	13.06	−1.71
	Green	Gordon Kubanek	3,630	5.49	+2.51
	Libertarian	Coreen Corcoran	940	1.42	+1.01
Total valid votes			66,073	100.0	+20.00
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−7.00
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Lisa MacLeod	29,985	54.48	+4.20	$   61,855.47
	Liberal	Don Dransfield	14,844	26.97	−5.97	20,300.63
	New Democratic	Ric Dagenais	8,127	14.77	+7.34	18,039.80
	Green	Gordon Kubanek	1,641	2.98	−5.38	2,855.87
	Libertarian	Roger Toutant	223	0.41		0.00
	Freedom	Marco Rossi	217	0.39		0.00
Total valid votes / Expense limit			55,037	100.0	+2.23	$ 131,703.25
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			193	0.35	−0.17
Turnout			55,230	49.91	−4.70
Eligible voters			110,662		+11.69
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.09
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Lisa MacLeod	27,070	50.28	−7.29	$   58,239.69
	Liberal	Jai Aggarwal	17,731	32.94	+1.50	35,359.08
	Green	Gordon Kubanek	4,500	8.36	+6.25	3,130.46
	New Democratic	Tristan Maack	4,000	7.43	−0.84	11,543.93
	Family Coalition	Suzanne Fortin	533	0.99		0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,834	100.0	+79.01	$ 107,004.24
Total rejected ballots			277	0.52	+0.20
Turnout			54,111	54.61	+26.09
Eligible voters			99,078		−6.36
Source(s)

Ontario provincial by-election, March 30, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Lisa MacLeod	17,312	57.57	+3.51	$  89,547.03
	Liberal	Brian Ford	9,455	31.44	−4.21	58,560.17
	New Democratic	Laurel Gibbons	2,487	8.27	+1.73	32,687.68
	Green	Peter V. Tretter	634	2.11	−1.65	852.94
	Independent	John Turmel	112	0.37		0.00
	Freedom	Jurgen Vollrath	73	0.24		0.00
Total valid votes/Expense Limit			30,073	100.0	−48.65	$ 114,226.16
Total rejected ballots			97	0.32	−0.13
Turnout			30,170	28.52	−33.71
Eligible voters			105,802		+11.91
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	John Baird	31,662	54.06	−8.25	$ 89,484.81
	Liberal	Rod Vanier	20,878	35.65	+2.45	59,182.48
	New Democratic	Liam McCarthy	3,828	6.54	+3.28	7,619.96
	Green	Matt Takach	2,200	3.76		4,820.88
Total valid votes/Expense Limit			58,568	100.0	+15.69	$ 90,762.24
Total rejected ballots			263	0.45	−0.13
Turnout			58,831	62.23	+1.21
Eligible voters			94,544		+13.30
Source(s)

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	John Baird	31,546	62.31	$60,150.37
	Liberal	Gord Hunter	16,809	33.20	56,229.71
	New Democratic	Craig Parsons	1,647	3.25	8,231.29
	Freedom	Bill Frampton	386	0.76	0.00
	Natural Law	Brian E. Jackson	239	0.47	0.00
Total valid votes/Expense Limit			50,627	100.0	$ 80,110.08
Total rejected ballots			294	0.58
Turnout			50,921	61.02
Eligible voters			83,448
Source(s)

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	36,569	68.5
	Mixed member proportional	16,821	31.5
	Total valid votes	53,390	100.0