Niagara Centre (provincial electoral district) explained

Niagara Centre (renamed to Welland from 2006 to 2018) is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented from 1867 until 1977 and again since 2007 (under different boundaries) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Its population in 2006 was 112,875.

A new riding of Niagara Centre was created before the 1999 election from small parts of the Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock ridings, and almost all of the Welland—Thorold riding. The current electoral district was created in 2003: 74.9% of the riding came from Niagara Centre riding, 22.5% from Erie—Lincoln and 2.7% from Niagara Falls riding. The name was changed to Welland during redistricting in 2006. In 2018, the name was changed back to Niagara Centre.

Geography

From 1967 to 1975, the southern part of the riding was covered by the Welland South district.

The pre-2018 Welland riding consisted of the cities of Welland, Thorold, Port Colborne, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and east along Glendale Avenue to the eastern city limit.^[1]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Source: Legislative Assembly of Ontario^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]}

Election results

Niagara Centre, 2018–

2014 general election redistributed results[22]
Party		Vote	%
			20,334	47.88
			11,313	26.64
			8,674	20.42
			1,713	4.03
			435	1.02

Welland (1867–1977)

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side	Votes	%
	First Past the Post	26,925	60.1
	Mixed member proportional	17,859	39.9
	Total valid votes	44,784	100.0

External links

• Map of riding for 2018 election
• Map of riding boundaries

43.009°N -79.28°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Map C35097.
2. Web site: William Beatty . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
3. Web site: James George Currie . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
4. Web site: Daniel Near . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
5. Web site: James E. Morin . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
6. Web site: William McCleary . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
7. Web site: William Manley German . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
8. Web site: John Franklin Gross . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
9. Web site: Evan Eugene Fraser . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
10. Web site: Donald Sharpe . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
11. Web site: Robert Cooper . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
12. Web site: Marshall Vaughan . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
13. Web site: Edward James Anderson . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
14. Web site: Howard Elis Brown . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
15. Web site: Thomas Henry Lewis . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
16. Web site: Harold William Walker . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
17. Web site: Ellis Price Morningstar . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
18. Web site: Melvin Leroy Swart . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
19. Web site: Peter Kormos . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
20. Web site: Cindy Forster . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
21. Web site: Jeff Burch . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 4 June 2022.
22. Web site: Election Prediction Project . Constituency Profile: Niagara Centre . June 4, 2022.