Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (provincial electoral district)

Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (formerly Haliburton—Victoria—Brock) is a provincial electoral district in Central Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

It was created in 1999 from parts of Victoria—Haliburton, Durham East, Durham—York and Hastings—Peterborough.

When the riding was created it was called Haliburton—Victoria—Brock, and included all of Victoria County, most of Haliburton County, the townships of Brock, Galway-Cavendish and Harvey, Burleigh and Anstruther, Chandos and Cavan, as well as the village of Millbrook.

In 2007 it was renamed Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock after Victoria County was renamed Kawartha Lakes. The riding also gained the municipality of Algonquin Highlands, plus the entire municipality of Cavan-Monaghan. It therefore is now identical to the federal riding by the same name.

2009 by-election

On February 4, 2009, a writ was issued for a by-election to be held on March 5, 2009.^[1] The by-election was called to fill the seat vacated by Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament Laurie Scott, who quit so that PC leader John Tory could seek a seat in the legislature.

Rick Johnson, who ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in 2007 after he resigned as president of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association to run against Ms. Scott in 2007 because he was opposed to Mr. Tory's controversial promise to extend public funding to religious schools, is the Liberal candidate for the by-election. The Liberal riding association voted unanimously to support Johnson.^[2]

Brad Harness, leader of the minor Reform Party of Ontario, announced that the party planned to run a candidate, and slammed Tory as an "urbanite".^[3] However, as the writ came, the party failed to run a candidate.

The Green Party of Ontario announced its candidate would be Mike Schreiner, an award-winning entrepreneur, sustainable community champion and local food advocate.^[4]

On February 9, the Lindsay Post published a poll of local residents which indicated that Tory’s campaign was off to a rocky start, with nearly 70 percent of respondents saying that they opposed Scott's decision to step aside so that Tory could be a candidate, and nearly half of respondents stating that they were less likely to vote PC because of his candidacy.^[5] That outsider status (being from Toronto) likely played a major role in Tory's defeat, combined with the fact that Tory was more liberal than most conservative voters in the riding resulting in many potential PC voters staying home.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years		Party
Riding created — Haliburton—Victoria—Brock
37th	1993–2003	Chris Hodgson	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2007	Laurie Scott	Progressive Conservative
Renamed — Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
39th	2007–2009	Laurie Scott	Progressive Conservative
39th	2009–2011	Rick Johnson	Liberal
40th	2011–2014	Laurie Scott	Progressive Conservative
41st	2014–Present	Laurie Scott	Progressive Conservative

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Laurie Scott	21,641	40.96	-4.47
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	18,512	35.03	+1.45
	New Democratic	Don Abel	10,431	19.74	+2.43
	Green	Arsalan Ahmad	2,255	4.27	+1.10
Total valid votes			52,839	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.96
Source: Elections Ontario^[6]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Laurie Scott	22,352	45.43	+4.23
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	16,522	33.58	-10.29
	New Democratic	Don Abel	8,517	17.31	+11.35
	Green	Anita Payne	1,562	3.17	-3.40
	Freedom	Charles Olito	245	0.50	+0.10
Total valid votes			49,198	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			188	0.38
Turnout			49,386	54.98
Eligible voters			89,830
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+7.26
Source: Elections Ontario^[7]

Ontario provincial by-election, March 5, 2009 resignation of Laurie Scott
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	15,442	43.88	+14.37
	Progressive Conservative	John Tory	14,595	41.20	-8.79
	Green	Mike Schreiner	2,330	6.58	-0.58
	New Democratic	Lyn Edwards	2,112	5.96	-5.95
	Independent	Jason Taylor	280	0.79
	Family Coalition	Jake Pothaar	258	0.73	+0.11
	Freedom	Bill Denby	140	0.40	-0.41
	Independent	John Turmel	94	0.27
	Libertarian	Paolo Fabrizio	72	0.20
Total valid votes			35,423	100.00
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing	+11.58
Source: Elections Ontario^[8]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Laurie Scott	24,273	49.99	+2.58
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	14,327	29.51	-4.00
	New Democratic	Joan Corigan	5,785	11.92	-3.47
	Green	Douglas Smith	3,475	7.16	+5.29
	Freedom	Bill Denby	391	0.81	+0.28
	Family Coalition	Jake Pothaar	301	0.62	-0.67
Total valid votes			48,552	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Laurie Scott	24,297	47.41	-15.41
	Liberal	Jason D. Ward	17,171	33.51	5.05
	New Democratic	Earl Manners	7,884	15.39	7.99
	Green	Douglas Smith	956	1.87
	Family Coalition	Paul Gordon	663	1.29
	Freedom	Charles Olito	273	0.53	0.14
Total valid votes			51,244	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Hodgson	32,125	62.82
	Liberal	Sharon McCrae	14,556	28.46
	New Democratic	Rick Denyer	3,786	7.40
	Independent	Brad Bradamore	340	0.66
	Freedom	Charles Olito	198	0.39
	Natural Law	Maxim Newby	135	0.26
Total valid votes			51,140	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	33,156	70.1
	Mixed member proportional	14,166	29.9
	Total valid votes	47,322	100.0

References

↑ "Provincial Byelection Called in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock". Office of the Premier of Ontario press release via Canada Newswire. February 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
↑ "Liberal to challenge John Tory in by-election". The Globe and Mail. January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
↑ Benzie, Robert (January 14, 2009). "Reform to test 'urbanite' Tory in rural riding". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
↑ Riley, Mary (2009-01-15). "Green Party candidate steps forward". myKawartha.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
↑ "Poll shows Conservatives unhappy with Tory" Lindsay Post, February 9, 2009
↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "Official result from the records, 029 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2014.
↑ http://www.elections.on.ca/en-CA/Tools/ByElection2009.htm

Sources

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

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Coordinates: 44°24′50″N 78°20′38″W / 44.414°N 78.344°W / 44.414; -78.344

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