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Milton (provincial Electoral District)
Milton is a provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The riding was created in 2015. The riding is coterminous with the Milton (federal electoral district), federal electoral district of the same name. It consists of all of Milton, Ontario, Milton plus the city of Burlington, Ontario, Burlington north of Dundas Street and Highway 407 (Ontario), Highway 407. Profile The Electoral district (Canada), riding (Electoral district (Canada), electoral district) in its current form consists of the part of Burlington north of Dundas Street and Ontario Highway 407, Highway 407 and the town of Milton. The eponymous town, which makes up much of the riding's area, is a quickly growing settlement which dates back to the 1820s. According to the 2016 Canadian census, 2016 census, the riding population grew over six times as much as the Ontario average between 2011 and 2016, from 88,065 to 114,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zee Hamid
Zee Hamid is a Canadians, Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election on May 2, 2024. He represents the electoral district of Milton (provincial electoral district), Milton as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.Clara Pasieka and Olivia Bowden"PC candidate Zee Hamid wins Milton provincial byelection" CBC News Toronto, May 2, 2024. Before becoming an MPP, Hamid spent 12 years as a municipal councillor and was a tech executive with at least two patents under his name. Background While Hamid was born in Karachi, Pakistan, his family is from Bihar, India, and had lived in Calcutta, India and Dhaka, Bangladesh before settling in Pakistan. He immigrated to Canada with his family as a teenager and has a Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. Politics Hamid served in several community positions before he ran for office, including the Milton Transit Advisory Committ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halton (provincial Electoral District)
Halton was a provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Central Ontario, Canada. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. History Until 1967, the electoral district was contiguous with the Halton County, Ontario, County of Halton. Division (1967-1999) The territory comprising Halton was redistributed on several occasions between 1967 and 1999: :* The ''Representation Act, 1966'' divided the County into Halton East (provincial electoral district), Halton East (consisting of Georgetown, Milton, Oakville and the southern part of Esquesing Township) and Halton West (provincial electoral district), Halton West (consisting of Acton, Burlington, Nassagaweya Township and the northern part of Esquesing). :* The ''Representation Act, 1975'' divided the new Regional Municipality of Halton into Burlington South (provincial electoral district), Burlington South, Halton—Burlington, Halton-Burlington (consisting of Halton Hills, Milton and the northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Green Party
The Green Party of Ontario (GPO; ) is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. Schreiner was elected as MPP for the riding of Guelph in 2018, making him the party's first member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly. In 2023, Aislinn Clancy became the party's second elected member following her win in the Kitchener Centre (provincial electoral district), Kitchener Centre byelection. The Greens became an officially registered political party in 1983. It fielded 58 Green Party candidates, 1999 Ontario provincial election, candidates in the 1999 Ontario general election, 1999 provincial election, becoming the fourth-largest party in the province. In 2003, the party fielded its first nearly full slate, 102 out of 103 Green Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election, candidates, and received 2.8% of the vote. In 2007, the party fielded a full slate of 107 Green Party candidates, 2007 Ontario provincial election, candidates, receiving over 8.0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario New Democratic Party
The Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP; , NPD) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. The party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. It is Ontario’s provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. The party has formed the Official Opposition in Ontario since the 2018 general election. It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) (Ontario CCF) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). For many years, the Ontario NDP was the most successful provincial NDP branch outside the national party's western heartland. It had its first breakthrough under its first leader, Donald C. MacDonald in the 1967 provincial election, when the party elected 20 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Ontario Legislative Assembly. After the 1970 leadership convention, Stephen Lewis became leader, and guided the party to Official Opposition status in 1975, the first time since the Ontario CCF did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Conservative Party Of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC; ), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party, or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada. During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryism, favouring government intervention in the economy, increased spending on infrastructure, education and health care and being progressive on social issues such as equal pay for women, anti-discrimination laws, voting rights for First Nations in Canada, First Nations people and Franco-Ontarians, French-language services. In the 1990s, the party underwent a shift to Blue Toryism after the election of Mike Harris as leader, who was Premier of Ontario, premier from 1995 to 2002 and favoured a "Common Sense Revolution" platform of cutting taxes and government spending while balanced budget, balancing the budget through small government. The PCs lost po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Ontario
The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP; , PLO) is a political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. The party has been led by Bonnie Crombie since December 2023. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, with their rival the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Progressive Conservative Party positioned to the Right-wing politics, right and the Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party (who at times aligned itself with the Liberals during minority governments), positioned to their Left-wing politics, left. The party has strong informal ties to the Liberal Party of Canada, but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships. The provincial party and the Ontario wing of the federal party were organizationally one entity until members voted to split in 1976. The Liberals lost official party status in the 2018 Ontario general election, 2018 Ontario provincial election; they had fallen to only seven seats, the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Ontario General Election
The 2014 Ontario general election was held on June 12, 2014, to elect the members of the 41st Parliament of Ontario. The Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, legislature, allowing its leader, Kathleen Wynne, to continue as Premier of Ontario, premier, moving from a Minority government, minority to majority government. This was the Liberals' fourth consecutive win since 2003 Ontario general election, 2003 and an improvement from their performance in 2011 Ontario general election, the 2011 election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Progressive Conservatives under Tim Hudak were returned to the official opposition; following the election loss, Hudak announced his resignation as Progressive Conservative leader. The Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party under Andrea Horwath remained in third place, albeit with an improved share of the popular vote. The election was called on May 2, 2014, by Lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton 2022 Polling Division Map Winner
Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) Places Australia * Milton, New South Wales * Milton, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane ** Milton Courts, a tennis centre ** Milton House, Milton, a heritage-listed house ** Milton railway station, Brisbane ** Milton Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River ** Milton Road, an arterial road in Brisbane Canada * Milton, Newfoundland and Labrador * Milton, Nova Scotia in the Region of Queens Municipality * Milton, Ontario ** Milton line, a commuter train line ** Milton GO Station * Milton (federal electoral district), Ontario ** Milton (provincial electoral district), Ontario * Beaverton, Ontario a community in Durham Region and renamed as Beaverton in 1835 * Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292, Saskatchewan New Zealand * Milton, New Zealand United Kingdom England * Milton, Cambridgeshire, a village north of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turmel
John C. Turmel (born February 22, 1951) is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the ''Guinness World Records'' holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost, having contested 112 elections and lost 111. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call. Background Turmel, who describes himself as a "Libertarian Socred", believes in Louis Even's Quebec social credit theory of monetary reform and has also campaigned for the legalization of gambling, the adoption of " Local Employment Trading Systems" (LETS) which are interest-free barter arrangements, and for the legalization of marijuana. He describes his platform as "I want no cops in gambling, sex or drugs or rock and roll, I want no usury on loans, pay cash or time, no dole." He has participated in several protests outside of Canada's major banking institutions, saying that bank interest promotes poverty and starvation in the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parm Gill
Parm Gill (born May 17, 1974) is a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Milton (provincial electoral district), Milton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 2018 and 2024. As a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party, he previously represented the Electoral district (Canada), riding of Brampton—Springdale (federal electoral district), Brampton—Springdale in Ontario in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015, holding roles as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada), Minister of Veterans Affairs and the Minister of International Trade (Canada), Minister of International Trade from 2013 until his defeat in the 2015 Canadian federal election, 2015 federal election. In the 2025 Canadian federal election, he ran and was defeated in riding of Milton East—Halton Hills South Electoral district (Canada), riding. He was elected to the provincial legislature, representing Milton (provincial electoral d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections Ontario
Elections Ontario () is an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario responsible for the administration of provincial elections and referendums. It is charged with the implementation and enforcement of the ''Election Act'' ( R.S.O., c. E.6), ''Election Finances Act'' (R.S.O. 1990, c. E.7), ''Representation Act''s (various), as well as specific portions of the ''Municipal Elections Act, 1996'' (S.O. 1996, c. 32, Sched.), ''Taxpayer Protection Act, 1999'' (S.O. 1999, c. 7, Sched. A), and ''Fluoridation Act'' (R.S.O. 1990, c. F.22). The agency collects information about political parties, candidates, constituency association, leadership contestants, and third parties involved in Ontario politics. Elections Ontario is led by the Chief Electoral Officer, a non-partisan Officer of the Legislative Assembly chosen by an all-party committee. Greg Essensa, appointed in 2008, is the current Chief Electoral Officer. His predecessor was John Hollins, who held the position from 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Tesser Derksen
Kristina Tesser Derksen is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected as the member of Parliament for Milton East—Halton Hills South in the 2025 Canadian federal election as a member of the Liberal Party. She previously served two terms as a Milton town councillor. Background Tesser Derksen was born and raised in Milton, Ontario. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and political science before earning a law degree from the University of Toronto. Political career Tesser Derksen was first elected to Milton Town Council representing Ward 1 in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022. In the 2025 Ontario provincial election, Tesser Derksen ran as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for the riding of Milton. She was defeated by Progressive Conservative incumbent Zee Hamid. In the 2025 federal election, Tesser Derksen ran as the Liberal candidate for the newly established riding of Milton East—Halton Hills South. Initially declared defeated, a subsequent val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
