Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey

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Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. It is also an Ontario provincial electoral district that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

1 Federal electoral district
2 Provincial electoral district
3 Federal election results
4 Provincial election results

[edit] Federal electoral district

The federal riding was created as a result of redistribution in 1996 from parts of Guelph—Wellington, Halton—Peel and Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe ridings. Located west of Toronto, the largely rural electoral district's largest centre is the town of Orangeville, Ontario. The riding consists of the entire County of Dufferin; that part of the County of Grey contained in the townships of Egremont and Proton and the Village of Dundalk; that part of the County of Wellington contained in the townships of Erin and West Luther, the Town of Mount Forest ad the villages of Arthur and Erin and that part of the Regional Municipality of Peel contained in the Town of Caledon.

The riding's first vote was the 1997 federal election in which Liberal Murray Calder became its Member of Parliament. Calder was re-elected in the 2000 election.

The federal electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Dufferin—Caledon, Grey—Bruce—Owen Sound, Perth—Wellington and Wellington—Halton Hills ridings.

[edit] Provincial electoral district

The provincial riding of Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey was created when the Harris government passed a bill reducing the number of ridings electing Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in the Legislative Assembly so that they were the same as the number of federal Members of Parliament from Ontario.

David Tilson of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario was elected from the riding in the 1999 provincial election. In April 2002, Tilson resigned his seat in order to give the newly-elected party leader and Premier of Ontario, Ernie Eves, an opportunity to enter the provincial legislature through a by-election. Eves won the by-election and retained his seat in the subsequent 2003 election although his government was defeated.

Eves subsequently resigned as party leader and, on January 31, 2005, he resigned his seat in order to give his successor, John Tory the opportunity to enter the legislature through a by-election.

The by-election was held on March 17, 2005. Tory was the Progressive Conservative candidate against Bob Duncanson for the Ontario Liberal Party, Lynda McDougall for the Ontario New Democratic Party, Frank de Jong who is leader of the Green Party of Ontario as well as the party's candidate, and independent Representative candidate William Cook. Tory won, with 56.3% of the vote.

In 2006 this provincial electoral district was divided up in the same manner as it was federally.

[edit] Federal election results

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	CALDER, Murray	20,957	42.62%
	Reform	DAVIES, Dave	14,760	30.02%
	Progressive Conservative	TAYLOR, Eleanor	11,089	22.55%
	New Democrat	KELLY, Kevin	2,355	4.70%

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	CALDER, Murray	21,678	45.47%
	Canadian Alliance	CRAWFORD, Don	15,128	31.73%
	Progressive Conservative	MAJKOT, Richard	7,926	16.62%
	New Democrat	HEALEY, Mitchel	1,473	3.09%
	Green	STRANG, Robert	1,464	3.07%

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

[edit] Provincial election results

2005 by-election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Progressive Conservative	John Tory	15,610	56.3%
Liberal	Bob Duncanson	4,625	16.7%
New Democrat	Lynda McDougall	3,881	14.0%
Green	Frank de Jong	2,767	10.0%
Family Coalition	Paul Micelli	479	1.7%
Independent	William Cook	163	0.6%
Libertarian	Philip Bender	135	0.5%
Independent	John C. Turmel	85	0.3%

2003 general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Progressive Conservative	Ernie Eves	29,222	56.64%
Liberal	Dan Yake	14,859	28.8%
Green	Frank de Jong	3,161	6.13%
New Democrat	Mitchel Healey	3,148	6.1%
Family Coalition	Dave Davies	1,202	2.3%

2002 by-election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Progressive Conservative	Ernie Eves	15,288	46.59%
Liberal	Josh Matlow	11,728	35.74%
New Democrat	Doug Wilcox	2,633	8.02%
Green	Richard Procter	2,017	6.15%
Family Coalition	Dave Davies	1,025	3.12%
Independent	John C. Turmel	120	0.37%

1999 general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Progressive Conservative	David Tilson	30,532	64.76%
Liberal	Steve White	13,591	28.83%
New Democrat	Noel Duignan	1,871	3.97%
Green	Richard Procter	1,156	2.45%