Timmins—James Bay (federal electoral district)

For the former provincial electoral district, see Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district).

Timmins—James Bay (French: Timmins—Baie James) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. Its population in 2011 was 83,104. Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk.^[2]

Timmins—James Bay

Ontario electoral district
Timmins—James Bay in relation to other northern Ontario electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Charlie Angus New Democratic
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	83,104
Electors (2015)	60,202
Area (km²)[1]	251,599
Pop. density (per km²)	0.33
Census division(s)	Cochrane District, Timiskaming District
Census subdivision(s)	Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Black River-Matheson, Moosonee, Marten Falls, Attawapiskat First Nation, Fort Albany, Moose Factory

The district includes the extreme eastern part of the District of Kenora, all of the District of Cochrane except for the central western part, and a small part south of Timmins, and all of the District of Timiskaming except for the extreme southeastern part.

Timmins—James Bay is the 11th largest in Canada (in Ontario it is second largest to Kenora).^[3]

Geography

Timmins—James Bay consists of

• the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn from the northeast corner of the most northerly point of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay (Albany River) due north to Hudson Bay;
• the Territorial District of Cochrane, excluding the part bounded by a line drawn from the western limit of the territorial district east along the northern limits of the townships of Boyce, Boyce, Shuel, Mulloy, Fintry, Auden, Rogers, Fushimi, Bannerman, Ritchie, Mulvey, Goldwin, Sweet, Hillmer, McKnight, Boyle, Mowbray, Howells, Sheldon, Pinard and Mewhinney, south along the eastern boundaries of the townships of Mewhinney, Bourassa, Tolmie, Menapia, Beniah, Colquhoun and Calder, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Ottaway, south along the western boundaries of the townships of Ottaway, Beck, Lucas and Prosser, and west along the southern boundaries of the townships of Carnegie, Reid, Thorburn, Moberly, Aitken, Poulett, Watson and Lisgar, to the southwestern limit of the territorial district;
• the part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming bounded by a line drawn from the northeast corner of the Township of Harris, west along the northern boundaries of the townships of Harris, Dymond, Hudson, Lundy, Auld and Speight, and south along the western boundaries of the townships of Speight, Van Nostrand and Leo to the southern limit of the territorial district.

History

Timmins—James Bay was created in 1996 from parts of Cochrane—Superior and Timiskaming—Cochrane ridings.

It consisted initially of:

• the part of the Territorial District of Cochrane lying west and north of a line drawn from the southeast corner of the City of Timmins north and west along the east and north limits of the city north along the east boundaries of the Townships of Prosser, Lucas, Beck and Ottaway, west and north along the south and west boundary of the Township of Clute, north along the east boundary of the Township of Colquhoun, and east along the south boundaries of the Townships of Marven, Thorning, Potter, Sangster, Bragg, Newman, Tomlinson, Hurtubise and St. Laurent,
• the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn north from the most northerly northeast corner of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay to Hudson Bay.

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

This riding gained a fraction of territory from Nipissing—Timiskaming during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

2022 changes

In the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding gains the Highway 11 corridor and the Chapleau area from Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing. Loses Marten Falls 65 and the area south of the Albany River and generally west of the Kenogami River to Thunder Bay—Superior North. Loses the southeastern quarter of Timiskaming District (James eastward and Chamberlain southward) to Nipissing—Timiskaming.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Timmins—James Bay Riding created from Cochrane—Superior and Timiskaming—Cochrane
36th	1997–2000		Réginald Bélair	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Charlie Angus	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[4]

Ethnic groups: 74.7% White, 22.0% Indigenous, 1.3% South Asian

Languages: 63.1% English, 25.8% French, 1.7% Cree

Religions: 63.8% Christian (44.4% Catholic, 4.5% Anglican, 3.3% United Church, 1.5% Pentecostal, 1.2% Baptist, 1.0% Anabaptist, 7.9% Other), 33.6% None

Median income: $41,600 (2020)

Average income: $52,250 (2020)

Election results

Graph of election results in Timmins—James Bay (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	12,132	35.1	-5.4	$88,140.09
	Conservative	Morgan Ellerton	9,393	27.2	+0.2	$19,999.91
	Liberal	Steve Black	8,508	24.6	-1.1	$44,629.30
	People's	Stephen MacLeod	4,537	13.1	+9.7	$12,559.12
Total valid votes			34,570
Total rejected ballots			355	1.02	+0.02
Turnout			34,925	55.4	-3.2
Eligible voters			63,041
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-2.8
Source: Elections Canada[5]

2021 federal election redistributed results[6]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	14,582	35.79
	Liberal	10,682	26.22
	Conservative	10,257	25.18
	People's	4,999	12.27
	Green	162	0.40
	Others	58	0.14

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	14,885	40.5	-2.35	$85,828.95
	Conservative	Kraymr Grenke	9,907	27.0	+6.60	$38,287.03
	Liberal	Michelle Boileau	9,443	25.7	-9.02	$46,774.56
	Green	Max Kennedy	1,257	3.4	+1.38	$1,722.98
	People's	Renaud Roy	1,248	3.4	–	$9,105.18
Total valid votes/expense limit			36,740	100.0
Total rejected ballots			369
Turnout			37,109	58.6
Eligible voters			63,282
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-4.47
Source: Elections Canada[7][8]

2015 Canadian federal election: Timmins—James Bay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	15,974	42.85	-7.1	$73,519.39
	Liberal	Todd Lever	12,940	34.72	+18.74	$35,151.97
	Conservative	John P. Curley	7,605	20.40	-11.48	$37,300.73
	Green	Max Kennedy	752	2.02	-0.18	$520.54
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,271	100.0		$245,251.56
Total rejected ballots			266	–	–
Turnout			37,537	61.84	+10.84
Eligible voters			60,692
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-12.89
Source: Elections Canada[9][10]

2011 federal election redistributed results[11]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	16,833	49.95
	Conservative	10,743	31.88
	Liberal	5,387	15.98
	Green	740	2.20

2011 Canadian federal election: Timmins—James Bay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	16,738	50.4	-6.1	–
	Conservative	Bill Greenberg	10,526	31.7	+13.5	–
	Liberal	Marilyn Wood	5,230	15.7	-6.5	–
	Green	Lisa Bennett	724	2.2	-0.9	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,218	100.0
Total rejected ballots			184	0.6	+0.1
Turnout			33,402	56.5	+5.5
Eligible voters			59,136

2008 Canadian federal election: Timmins—James Bay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	17,188	56.5	+6.0	$63,948
	Liberal	Paul Taillefer	6,740	22.2	-12.1	$ 31,909
	Conservative	Bill Greenberg	5,536	18.2	+4.6	$29,651
	Green	Larry Verner	938	3.1	+1.5	$133
Total valid votes/Expense limit			30,402	100.0	$97,746
Total rejected ballots			133	0.4
Turnout			30,535	51.0

2006 Canadian federal election: Timmins—James Bay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	19,150	50.5	+9.1
	Liberal	Robert Riopelle	13,028	34.3	-5.3
	Conservative	Ken Graham	5,164	13.6	-3.1
	Green	Sahaja Freed	610	1.6	-0.7
valid votes			37,952	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+7.2

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Charlie Angus	14,138	41.4	+19.7
	Liberal	Ray Chénier	13,525	39.6	-14.9
	Conservative	Andrew Van Oosten	5,682	16.7	-6.2
	Green	Marsha Gail Kriss	767	2.3
Total valid votes				34,112	100.0

Note: Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Réginald Bélair	16,335	54.2	+4.0
	New Democratic	Len Wood	9,385	31.1	-4.5
	Alliance	James Gibb	3,356	11.1	+3.8
	Progressive Conservative	Daniel Clark	1,053	3.5	-3.2
Total valid votes			30,129	100.0

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

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Réginald Bélair	16,829	50.3
	New Democratic	Cid Samson	11,945	35.7
	Reform	Donna Ferolie	2,464	7.4
	Progressive Conservative	Jodi MacDonald	2,251	6.7
Total valid votes			33,489	100.0

See also

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

References

• "Timmins—James Bay (federal electoral district) (Code 35092) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2012
2. "Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk – Final boundaries - Federal Electoral Districts Redistribution".
3. "RIDING PROFILE: What you need to know about Timmins-James Bay". CBC News. September 6, 2021.
4. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Timmins--James Bay [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
5. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
6. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
7. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
8. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
9. "Voter Information Service - Find your electoral district".
10. "Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates".
11. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

External links

• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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