Mississauga South (provincial electoral district)

For the federal electoral district formerly called Mississauga South, see Mississauga—Lakeshore.

Mississauga South

Ontario electoral district

Mississauga South in relation to the other Toronto area ridings

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP

Charles Sousa
Liberal

First contested

1975

Last contested

2014

Demographics

Population (2011)

112,583

Electors (2011)

77,479

Area (km²)

Pop. density (per km²)

1,845.6

Census divisions

Peel

Census subdivisions

Mississauga

Map of Mississauga South

Provincial election results, 1977-2007

Mississauga South is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1975.

It includes the neighbourhoods of Cawthra, Sheridan Heights, Park Royal, Clarkson, Rattray Park Estates, Lorne Park, Lorne Park Estates, Port Credit, Applewood Acres, Lakeview and Orchard Heights. It has a population of 113,003 and an area of 61 km².

In 2003, it was defined to consist of the part of the City of Mississauga lying southeast of a line drawn from northeast to southwest along the Queensway to the Credit River, west along the Credit River, and southwest along Dundas Street West to the southwestern city limit.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Mississauga South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created
30th	1975–1977		Douglas Kennedy	Progressive Conservative
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987		Margaret Marland	Progressive Conservative
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007		Tim Peterson	Liberal
	2007–2007			Independent
	2007–2007			Progressive Conservative
39th	2007–2011		Charles Sousa	Liberal
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[1]

Electoral history

Once one of the strongest bastions of PC support in the province (winning 61% of the vote as recently as 1999), and certainly in the Toronto area, Mississauga South provincially has become more and more Liberal in last election cycles, which can be attributed to the demographics of Mississauga South changing, with more socially-liberal-minded young families moving from Toronto into the area, and increasing ethnic populations which are usually Liberal friendly. Prior to Tim Peterson's very narrow upset victory in 2003 (despite a Liberal landslide province-wide, most pundits had predicted PC incumbent Margaret Marland would hold on to the seat), the area had not voted Liberal provincially since Confederation, and the PCs generally held the riding fairly easily (with some exceptions such as the 1987 election, which the PCs won by less than 1000 votes). The riding was one of the most watched in the 2007 election, as it was expected to be one of the closest races in the province. The voters, however, differed from expectations, handing Liberal Charles Sousa a more than 5000-vote victory, as the PC vote fell almost 9% from 2003, which many viewed as a rejection of the automatic installing of floor-crossing Tim Peterson as the PC candidate. The Liberals and particularly the Green Party received the benefit of angry PC voters, seeing a 3% and a 6% rise in voting percentage, respectively.

Voters also rejected the proposal to change Ontario's electoral system from first past the post (FPTP) to mixed member proportional (MMP) in the 2007 electoral reform referendum. The status quo FPTP received 65% of the vote. Given the margin and the parties' and the candidates' positions on MMP (Peterson and the PCs against, Sousa undecided and the Liberals neutral, Cole and the NDP in favour, and Johnson and the Greens in favour), it appears that the vast majority of NDP/Green voters voted in favour of MMP, the vast majority of PC voters for FPTP, and the majority of Liberals for FPTP, with a sizeable minority voting for MMP.

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	22,192	50.76	+0.05
	Progressive Conservative	Effie Triantafilopoulos	14,514	33.20	-2.89
	New Democratic	Boris Rosolak	4,649	10.63	+0.57
	Green	Lloyd Jones	1,418	3.24	+1.10
	None of the Above	Andrew Weber	591	1.35
	Libertarian	James Judson	355	0.81
Total valid votes			43,719	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.47
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	20,375	50.71	+3.92
	Progressive Conservative	Geoff Janoscik	14,499	36.09	+1.69
	New Democratic	Anju Sikka	4,044	10.06	+0.93
	Green	Cory Mogk	860	2.14	-6.7
	Freedom	Mark Harris	236	0.59
	Vegan Environmental	Paul Figueiras	165	0.41
Total valid votes			40,179	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			178	0.44
Turnout			40,357	51.25
Eligible voters			78,746
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.12
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	19,195	46.79	+2.99
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Peterson	14,114	34.40	-8.8
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	3,745	9.13	-0.05
	Green	David Johnston	3,627	8.84	+6.43
	Family Coalition	Samantha Toteda	345	0.84	-0.57
Total valid votes			41,026	100.0

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Tim Peterson	17,211	43.80	+12.32
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	16,977	43.20	-18.07
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	3,606	9.18	+3.3
	Green	Pamela Murray	949	2.41
	Family Coalition	Alfred Zawadzki	555	1.41
Total valid votes			39,298	100.0%

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	23,890	61.27	-8.49
	Liberal	Ieva Martin	12,275	31.48	+14.73
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	2,293	5.88	-4.02
	Independent	Tim Sullivan	535	1.37
Total valid votes			38,993	100.0

Ontario general election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	23,116	69.76	+17.31
	Liberal	Ieva Martin	5,551	16.75	-3.54
	New Democratic	David Messenger^[4]	3,282	9.90	-13.31
	Natural Law	Scott Kay	334	1.01
	Independent	Adrian Earl Crewson	309	0.93
	Independent	Wolfgang G. Mueller	287	0.87
	Green	Matthew Wood	256	0.77	-3.28
Total valid votes			33,135	100.0

Ontario general election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	17,126	52.45	+10.21
	New Democratic	Sue Craig	7,579	23.21	+8.04
	Liberal	Donna Scott	6,624	20.29	-20.13
	Green	Scott McWhinnie	1,323	4.05
Total valid votes			32,652	100.0

Ontario general election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	13,854	42.24	-2.34
	Liberal	Claudette Mackay-Lassonde	13,255	40.42	+1.13
	New Democratic	Barry Stevens	4,976	15.17	-0.96
	Freedom	Chris Balabanian	712	2.17
Total valid votes			32,797	100.0

Ontario general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	13,186	44.58	-11.05
	Liberal	Carolynne Siller	11,623	39.29	+11.12
	New Democratic	Barry Stevens	4,770	16.13	-0.07
Total valid votes			29,579	100.0

Ontario general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Kennedy	14,165	55.63	+7.72
	Liberal	Basil Gerol	7,172	28.17	+1.39
	New Democratic	Neil Davis	4,126	16.20	-9.11
Total valid votes			25,463	100.0

Ontario general election, 1977
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Kennedy	13,622	47.91
	Liberal	Mike Garvey	7,616	26.78
	New Democratic	Ted Humphreys	7,196	25.31
Total valid votes			28,434	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	26,121	65.1
	Mixed member proportional	13,985	34.9
	Total valid votes	40,106	100.0

Sources

↑
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Douglas Kennedy's Legislative Assembly information see "Robert Douglas Kennedy, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
- For Margaret Marland's Legislative Assembly information see "Margaret Marland, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
- For Tim Peterson's Legislative Assembly information see "Tim Peterson, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
- For Charles Sousa's Legislative Assembly information see "Charles Sousa, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "Official result from the records, 050 Mississauga South" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Mississauga South" (PDF). Retrieved 3 June 2014.
↑ 1995 Election results

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

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