Carleton (Ontario provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Carleton (Ontario federal electoral district). For pre-Confederation electoral district, see Carleton (Province of Canada electoral district).

Carleton is a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and lasted until provincial redistribution in 1996. In the 1999 provincial election it was redistributed into Nepean—Carleton and Lanark—Carleton. In 2007 it was abolished into Carleton—Mississippi Mills and Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington.

Carleton

Ontario electoral district
Carleton in relation to other electoral districts in Ottawa
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	George Darouze Progressive Conservative
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2016)	102,915
Electors (2018)	81,901
Area (km²)	1,187
Pop. density (per km²)	86.7
Census division(s)	Ottawa
Census subdivision(s)	Ottawa

In 2018 it was re-created as the riding of Carleton from parts of Nepean—Carleton, Carleton—Mississippi Mills and Ottawa South.^[1]

Boundaries

For the last three elections when Carleton existed (1987, 1990 and 1995) the riding included the municipalities of West Carleton Township, Goulbourn Township, Rideau Township, Osgoode Township and the City of Kanata. It was abolished in 1999 into Nepean—Carleton and Lanark—Carleton. The riding was re-created by the 2012 electoral redistribution from parts of Nepean—Carleton (59%), Carleton—Mississippi Mills (41%) and a small portion of Ottawa South.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Carleton
1st	1867–1871		Robert Lyon	Liberal
2nd	1871–1874		George Monk	Conservative
3rd	1875–1879
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886
6th	1886–1890
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898		George Kidd
9th	1898–1902
10th	1902–1904
11th	1905–1907
	1907–1908		Robert McElroy
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923		Robert Grant	United Farmers
16th	1923–1926		Adam Acres	Conservative
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951		Donald Morrow	Progressive Conservative
24th	1951–1955
25th	1955–1959		William Johnston
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		Sid Handleman
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1980
	1980–1981		Robert Mitchell
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990		Norm Sterling
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
Dissolved into Lanark—Carleton and Nepean—Carleton
Riding re-created from Nepean—Carleton, Carleton—Mississippi Mills, and Ottawa South
42nd	2018–2022		Goldie Ghamari	Progressive Conservative
43rd	2022–2024
	2024–2025			Independent
44th	2025–present		George Darouze	Progressive Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[2]

Election results

2018–present

Winning party in each polling division of Carleton at the 2025 Ontario general election

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Darouze	26,158	49.61	+1.46
	Liberal	Brandon Bay	20,335	38.57	+11.68
	New Democratic	Sherin Faili	3,763	7.14	–8.53
	Green	Mystic Plaunt	956	1.81	–3.67
	New Blue	Rob Stocki	699	1.33	–0.91
	Ontario Party	Myles Dear	346	0.66	–0.41
	Libertarian	Bruce Anthony Faulkner	263	0.50	N/A
	Independent	Brian Hull	202	0.38	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,722	99.53	–0.13
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			251	0.47	+0.13
Turnout			52,973	47.67	–1.12
Eligible voters			111,130
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–5.11
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

Winning party in each polling division of Carleton at the 2022 Ontario general election

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Goldie Ghamari	22,295	48.15	−3.18	$67,504
	Liberal	Tom Dawson	12,452	26.89	+7.45	$28,703
	New Democratic	Kevin St. Denis	7,256	15.67	−6.83	$14,674
	Green	Cody Zulinski	2,537	5.48	+1.53	$5,201
	New Blue	Rob Stocki	1,037	2.24		$2,991
	Ontario Party	Ethan Ferguson	494	1.07	+0.27	$0
	None of the Above	Chris Mark Beauchamp	235	0.51	−0.31	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			46,306	99.66	+0.69	$133,325
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			157	0.34	-0.69
Turnout			46,463	48.79	-13.12
Eligible voters			93,064
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−5.32
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Goldie Ghamari	25,798	51.33	–1.67
	New Democratic	Courtney Potter	11,308	22.50	+10.22
	Liberal	Theresa Qadri	9,768	19.44	–8.49
	Green	Gordon Kubanek	1,985	3.95	–1.89
	None of the Above	Evan Nightingale	413	0.82	N/A
	Ontario Party	Jay Tysick	399	0.79	N/A
	Libertarian	Jean-Serge Brisson	386	0.77	N/A
	Cultural Action	Kevin Harris	110	0.22	N/A
	Independent	Mark Dickson	89	0.18	N/A
Total valid votes			50,258
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots
Turnout				64.05
Eligible voters			78,460
	Progressive Conservative notional hold		Swing		–5.95
Source: Elections Ontario[4]

2014 general election redistributed results[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Progressive Conservative	20,990	53.09
	Liberal	11,057	27.96
	New Democratic	4,870	12.32
	Green	2,315	5.85
	Others	308	0.78

1987–1995

Consisting of West Carleton, Kanata, Goulbourn, Rideau and Osgoode.

1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Norman W. Sterling	28,349	64.96	+18.06
	Liberal	Sam Spataro	9,743	22.33	-4.31
	New Democratic	Cathy Hallessey	4,046	9.27	-17.18
	Family Coalition	Janne Jardine-Campbell	942	2.16
	Libertarian	Barbara Rowe	293	0.67
	Natural Law	Richard Beecroft	265	0.61
Total valid votes			43,638	99.36
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			279	0.64	-0.47
Turnout			43,917	62.05	-3.10
Eligible voters			70,780
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+11.18
Source: Elections Ontario[6]

1990 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Norman Sterling	17,869	46.91	+3.30
	Liberal	Susan Lebrun	10,143	26.64	-15.52
	New Democratic	Alex Munter	10,071	26.45	+12.21
Total valid votes			38,074	98.89
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			427	1.11	+0.71
Turnout			38,501	65.15	-0.07
Eligible voters			59,098
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+9.41
Source: Elections Ontario[7]

1987 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Norman Sterling	14,057	43.61
	Liberal	Roland Armitage	13,590	42.16
	New Democratic	Elaine Gibson	4,590	14.24
Total valid votes			32,237	99.60
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			130	0.40
Turnout			32,367	65.21
Eligible voters			49,632
Source: Elections Ontario[8]

1975–1985

From 1975 to 1987, the riding consisted of the former townships of Nepean and March. After 1987, only the parts of the riding in Kanata were transferred into the new riding of Carleton.

1985 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Mitchell	17,732	44.34	-10.92
	Liberal	Hans Daigeler	15,093	37.74	+11.05
	New Democratic	Beatrice Murray	7,165	17.92	+1.05
Total valid votes			39,990	99.38
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			251	0.62	+0.22
Turnout			40,241	57.85	+4.63
Eligible voters			69,557
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-10.98
Source: Elections Ontario[9]

1981 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Mitchell	17,846	55.26	+6.73
	Liberal	Hans Daigeler	8,621	26.69	-7.54
	New Democratic	Judy Wasylycia-Leis	5,446	16.86	+0.02
	Social Credit	Andrew Dynowski	383	1.19	+0.80
Total valid votes			32,296	99.60
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			131	0.40
Turnout			32,427	53.22
Eligible voters			60,929
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+7.14
Source: Elections Ontario[10]

1867–1975

v t e 1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George William Monk	2,074	79.74
	Liberal	C. Christian	527	20.26
Total valid votes			2,601	55.47
Eligible voters			4,689
	Conservative hold		Swing		–
Source: Elections Ontario[11]

v t e 1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George William Monk	Acclaimed
Source: Elections Ontario[12]

v t e Ontario provincial by-election, January 1872 Previous election voided
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Monk	1,109	54.23	+9.24
	Liberal	Robert Lyon	936	45.77	−1.52
Total valid votes			2,045	100.0	−2.01
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.38
Source: History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario[13]: 40

v t e 1871 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George William Monk	822	50.31
	Liberal	Robert Lyon	812	49.69
Turnout			1,634	63.46
Eligible voters			2,575
Election voided
Source: Elections Ontario[14]

v t e 1867 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Lyon	987	47.29
	Conservative	J. Skead	939	44.99
	Independent	Mr. Eastman	161	7.71
Total valid votes			2,087	88.13
Eligible voters			2,368
	Liberal pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario[15]