Nepean—Carleton (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district, see Nepean—Carleton (provincial electoral district).

Nepean—Carleton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada that was represented in the House of Commons from 1979 to 1988, and again from 1997 to 2015.

Nepean—Carleton

Ontario electoral district
Nepean—Carleton in relation to other electoral districts in Ottawa
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976
District abolished	2013
First contested	1979
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	159,032
Electors (2011)	103,414
Area (km²)[2]	1,128.05
Census division(s)	Ottawa
Census subdivision(s)	Ottawa

It included the southern portion of the former city of Nepean and adjacent suburban and rural areas of west and southern Ottawa.

Geography

Nepean—Carleton consisted of the part of the City of Ottawa lying east and south of a line drawn from the southwestern city limit, northeast along the southeast limit of the former Township of Goulbourn, northwest along McCordick Road and Eagleson Road to the southern limit of the former City of Kanata, then along the southern and eastern limits of Kanata, northwest along Eagleson Road, northeast along Highway 417, southwest along Richmond Road, east along the Canadian National Railway, southeast along Merivale Road, east along West Hunt Club Road, south along the Rideau River, east along the former southern limit of the City of Ottawa, south along Riverside Drive, southeast along Limebank Road, northeast along Leitrim Road, northwest along the Canadian Pacific Railway, northeast along Lester Road, northwest along Conroy Road, northeast along Hunt Club Road to Hawthorne Road and then in a straight line to Blake Road, and northeast along Blake Road, east along Highway 417, and southeast along Boundary Road to the eastern city limit.

History

The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Grenville—Carleton and Ottawa—Carleton. In 1987, it was first abolished and redistributed between the ridings of Nepean, Carleton—Gloucester and Lanark—Carleton.

In 1996, it was re-created from parts of Nepean, Carleton—Gloucester, Lanark—Carleton and Ottawa South ridings.

It consisted initially of the townships of Goulbourn, Osgoode and Rideau, and the City of Nepean, excluding the northeastern part lying north and east of a line drawn from the western city limit east along the Queensway (Highway 417), southwest along Richmond Road, east along the Canadian National Railway, north along Merivale Road, and east along the northern boundary of the National Capital Commission buffer zone to the eastern city limit.

It was given its final boundaries described above in 2003.

The riding was represented by Conservative M.P. Pierre Poilievre from 2004 until it was abolished due to the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution, which saw the riding redistributed mostly into the ridings of Carleton and Nepean with small parts going to Orléans and Kanata—Carleton.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Nepean—Carleton Riding created from Grenville—Carleton and Ottawa—Carleton
31st	1979–1980		Walter Baker	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		William Tupper
Riding dissolved into Nepean, Carleton—Gloucester and Lanark—Carleton
Riding re-created from Nepean, Carleton—Gloucester, Lanark—Carleton and Ottawa South
36th	1997–2000		David Pratt	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Pierre Poilievre	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Nepean, Carleton, Orléans, and Kanata—Carleton

Election results

1997–2015

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Pierre Poilievre	43,477	54.45	-1.39	–
	Liberal	Ryan Keon	20,146	25.23	+1.81	–
	New Democratic	Ric Dagenais	12,962	16.23	+6.52	–
	Green	Jean-Luc Cooke	3,260	4.08	-6.94	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			79,845	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			272	0.34	-0.05
Turnout			80,117	72.55	+3.16
Eligible voters			110,425	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Pierre Poilievre	39,915	55.84	+1.1	$86,150
	Liberal	Ed Mahfouz	16,743	23.42	-4.6	$40,049
	Green	Lori Gadzala	7,880	11.02	+5.3	$21,886
	New Democratic	Phil Brown	6,946	9.71	-1.9	$16,371
Total valid votes/Expense limit			71,484	100.00		$99,843
Total rejected ballots			280	0.39	–
Total votes			71,764	69.39	–

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pierre Poilievre	39,260	54.7	+9.0
	Liberal	Michael Gaffney	20,111	28.0	-12.1
	New Democratic	Laurel Gibbons	8,324	11.6	+2.5
	Green	Lori Gadzala	4,090	5.7	+1.4
Total valid votes			71,785	100.0

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pierre Poilievre	30,420	45.7	-7.7
	Liberal	David Pratt	26,684	40.1	-1.1
	New Democratic	Phil Brown	6,072	9.1	+5.4
	Green	Chris Walker	2,886	4.3	+3.0
	Marijuana	Brad Powers	561	0.8
Total valid votes			66,623	100.0

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

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Pratt	24,570	41.2	-7.6
	Alliance	Michael Green	22,310	37.4	+11.0
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Knott	9,536	16.0	-3.1
	New Democratic	Craig Parsons	2,223	3.7	-1.1
	Green	Isobel McGregor	805	1.3
	Canadian Action	Jack Waisvisz	131	0.2	-0.3
	Natural Law	Lester Newby	118	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			59,693	100.0

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

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	David Pratt	28,366	48.8
	Reform	Paul Fitzgerald	15,333	26.4
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Hill	11,072	19.0
	New Democratic	Cathy Martin	2,788	4.8
	Canadian Action	Terrence Bell	331	0.6
	Natural Law	Brian Jackson	238	0.4
Total valid votes			58,128	100.0

1979–1988

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Tupper	41,663	55.9	+2.4
	Liberal	Gord Hunter	20,852	28.0	-5.1
	New Democratic	Bea Murray	11,035	14.8	+2.6
	Green	Gregory Vezina	737	1.0
	Independent	Ray Turmel	204	0.3
Total valid votes			74,491	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Baker	31,498	53.5	-6.0
	Liberal	Gord Hunter	19,482	33.1	+5.4
	New Democratic	Alan White	7,187	12.2	-0.5
	Rhinoceros	Alan Cockerell	658	1.1
Total valid votes			58,825	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Baker	36,717	59.6
	Liberal	Bluma Appel	17,108	27.8
	New Democratic	Marnie Girvan	7,810	12.7
Total valid votes			61,635	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada