Mississauga—Brampton South (provincial electoral district)

It consists of the parts of the cities of Mississauga and Brampton bounded by a line drawn from the intersection of Highway 401 with the northeastern limit of the City of Mississauga, south along the city limit, southwest along Burnhamthorpe Road East, northwest along Central Parkway East, southwest along Highway 403, northwest along Mavis Road; thence northwesterly along said road to Eglinton Avenue West; thence southwesterly along said avenue to Terry Fox Way; thence northwesterly along said way to Britannia Road West; thence northeasterly along said road to Mavis Road, southwest along Highway 401, northwest along Mississauga Road, northeast along the northwestern limit of the City of Mississauga, northwest along McLaughlin Road, northeast along Steeles Avenue East, southeast along Kennedy Road South, northeast along the northwestern limit of the City of Mississauga, southeast along Dixie Road, and northeast along Highway 401 to the point of commencement.

History

It was created in 2003 from Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale, Brampton West—Mississauga, Mississauga Centre and Mississauga East ridings. In the 2011 provincial election, it had the lowest turnout of any riding in the province.^[1]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Mississauga—Brampton South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from parts of Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale, Brampton West—Mississauga, Mississauga Centre and Mississauga East
39th	2007–2011		Amrit Mangat	Liberal
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Amrit Mangat	19,923	48.21	+2.17
	Progressive Conservative	Amarjeet Gill	11,251	27.23	-3.17
	New Democratic	Kevin Troake	6,906	16.71	+0.69
	Green	Kathy Acheson	1,302	3.15	-0.53
	Libertarian	Richard Levesque	993	2.40	+0.36
	None of the Above	Kathleen Vezina	597	1.44	–
	Independent	Robert Alilovic	351	0.85	–
Total valid votes			41,323	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.67
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Amrit Mangat	15,579	46.04	−7.74
	Progressive Conservative	Amarjeet Gill	10,287	30.40	+4.97
	New Democratic	Karanjit Pandher	5,420	16.02	+5.71
	Green	Keith Foster	1,247	3.68	−6.80
	Libertarian	Christin Milloy	691	2.04
	Independent	Masood Khan	400	1.18
	Independent	Walter Widla	216	0.64
Total valid votes			33,840	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			242	0.71
Turnout			34,082	36.43
Eligible voters			93,563
	Liberal hold		Swing		−6.36
Source(s) Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Mississauga—Brampton South" (PDF). Retrieved 3 June 2014.

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Amrit Mangat	19,738	53.78
	Progressive Conservative	Ravi Singh	9,333	25.43
	Green	Paul Simas	3,846	10.48
	New Democratic	Karan Pandher	3,785	10.31
Total valid votes			36,702	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	21,500	60.2
	Mixed member proportional	14,201	39.8
	Total	35,701	100.0

Sources

↑ Vella, Erica. "Ontario electoral dysfunction: Award for most apathetic riding goes to…" globalnews.ca May 22, 2014
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "Official result from the records, 047 Mississauga-Brampton South" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2015.

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

Provincial ridings in Ontario

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

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

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

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

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

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville	Bramalea—Gore—Malton Brampton—Springdale Brampton West Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga South Mississauga—Streetsville Oakville

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

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

South Durham, York	Ajax—Pickering Markham—Unionville Oak Ridges—Markham Oshawa Pickering—Scarborough East Richmond Hill Thornhill Vaughan Whitby—Oshawa

Toronto	Beaches—East York Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North Parkdale—High Park Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough Southwest St. Paul's Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Trinity—Spadina Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston York West

See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario

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