Hamilton Centre

It consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Ottawa Street, west along the Niagara Escarpment, southwest along James Mountain Road, south along West 5th Street, west along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour.

Members of Parliament

It has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons by New Democrat David Christopherson since the 2004 federal election.

Parliament	Years		Party
38th	2004–2006	David Christopherson	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

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Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	23,849	57.0	+7.7	–
	Conservative	James Byron	11,020	26.4	+4.1	–
	Liberal	Anne Tennier	5,912	14.1	-3.5	–
	Marijuana	Michael Baldasaro	780	1.9	n/a	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	252	0.6	+0.3	–
Total valid votes			41,813	100.0	–
Total rejected ballots			320	0.8	–
Turnout			42,133	54.7	–
Eligible voters			77,077	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	20,010	49.3	-2.0	$66,259
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	9,051	22.3	+2.0	$24,629
	Liberal	Helen Wilson	7,164	17.6	-5.9	$30,226
	Green	John Livingstone	3,625	8.9	+4.2	$5,353
	Libertarian	Anthony Giles	528	1.3	n/a	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Lisa Nussey	126	0.3	n/a
	Communist	Ryan Sparrow	125	0.3	n/a	$373
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,850	100.0	$85,900

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	24,503	51.3	+5.5
	Liberal	Javid Mirza	11,224	23.5	-10.2
	Conservative	Elliot L. Hill	9,969	20.3	+5.7
	Green	John Livingstone	2,022	4.2	+1.0
	Canadian Action	Tony Des Lauriers	332	0.7	n/a
Total valid votes			47,777	100.0
Total rejected ballots			279
Turnout			48,056	59.2

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	20,321	45.8
	Liberal	Stan Keyes	14,948	33.7
	Conservative	Leon O'Connor	6,714	15.1
	Green	Anne Marie Pavlov	1,422	3.2
	Christian Heritage	Stephen Downey	520	1.2
	Independent	Michael James Baldasaro	345	0.8
	Marxist–Leninist	Jamile Ghaddar	91	0.2
Total valid votes			44,361	100.0

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References

"(Code 35031) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

v t e Federal ridings in Hamilton, Halton and Niagara

Conservative	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale Burlington Halton Niagara Falls Niagara West—Glanbrook Oakville St. Catharines

New Democratic	Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Welland

v t e Federal ridings in Ontario

Central Ontario	Barrie Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound Dufferin—Caledon Durham Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Newmarket—Aurora Northumberland—Quinte West Peterborough Simcoe—Grey Simcoe North York—Simcoe

Eastern Ontario	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Kingston and the Islands Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Leeds—Grenville Prince Edward—Hastings Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

Toronto (S Durham & York, Suburbs, Downtown, Brampton & Mississauga)	Ajax—Pickering Beaches—East York Bramalea—Gore—Malton Brampton—Springdale Brampton West Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North Markham—Unionville Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga South Mississauga—Streetsville Oak Ridges—Markham Oshawa Parkdale—High Park Pickering—Scarborough East Richmond Hill St. Paul's Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough Southwest Thornhill Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Trinity—Spadina Vaughan Whitby—Oshawa Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston York West

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale Burlington Halton Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Niagara Falls Niagara West—Glanbrook Oakville St. Catharines Welland

Midwestern Ontario	Brant Cambridge Guelph Haldimand—Norfolk Huron—Bruce Kitchener Centre Kitchener—Conestoga Kitchener—Waterloo Oxford Perth—Wellington Wellington—Halton Hills

Northern Ontario	Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing Kenora Nickel Belt Nipissing—Timiskaming Parry Sound—Muskoka Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay—Rainy River Thunder Bay—Superior North Timmins—James Bay

Southwestern Ontario	Chatham-Kent—Essex Elgin—Middlesex—London Essex Lambton—Kent—Middlesex London—Fanshawe London North Centre London West Sarnia—Lambton Windsor—Tecumseh Windsor West

Ottawa	Carleton—Mississippi Mills Nepean—Carleton Ottawa Centre Ottawa—Orléans Ottawa South Ottawa—Vanier Ottawa West—Nepean

See also: Provincial ridings in Ontario

Coordinates: 43°14′21″N 79°54′26″W / 43.2393°N 79.9072°W / 43.2393; -79.9072

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Hamilton Centre

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Election results

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