Chatham-Kent—Leamington (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district, see Chatham-Kent—Leamington (provincial electoral district).

Chatham-Kent—Leamington is a federal electoral district in Ontario. It encompasses a portion of Ontario previously included in the electoral districts of Chatham-Kent—Essex and Essex and Lambton—Kent—Middlesex.^[2]

Chatham-Kent—Leamington

Ontario electoral district
From the 2015 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of riding boundaries
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Dave Epp Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	109,619
Electors (2015)	78,803
Area (km²)[1]	2,183
Pop. density (per km²)	50.2
Census division(s)	Chatham-Kent, Essex
Census subdivision(s)	Chatham-Kent, Leamington, Moravian, Pelee

Chatham-Kent—Leamington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015.^[3]

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Chatham-Kent—Leamington Riding created from Chatham-Kent—Essex, Essex, and Lambton—Kent—Middlesex
42nd	2015–2019		Dave Van Kesteren	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021		Dave Epp
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Chatham-Kent—Leamington (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dave Epp	41,615	57.51	+15.08
	Liberal	Keith Pickard	25,988	35.91	+9.17
	New Democratic	Seamus McInnis Fleming	2,944	4.07	–10.54
	People's	Trevor Lee	1,061	1.47	–13.24
	Green	James Plunkett	757	1.05	–0.47
Total valid votes/expense limit			72,365
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			72,365	68.04
Eligible voters			106,351
	Conservative notional hold		Swing		+2.96
Source: CBC[4], Elections Canada[5]

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dave Epp	22,435	40.9	-6.0	$77,018.86
	Liberal	Greg Hetherington	15,683	28.6	-2.6	$82,487.05
	New Democratic	Dan Gelinas	8,007	14.6	-0.6	$4,338.12
	People's	Liz Vallee	7,892	14.4	+12.4	$17,320.60
	Green	Mark Vercouteren	837	1.5	-2.6	$0.75
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,854	99.3	–	$115,717.06
Total rejected ballots			400	0.7
Turnout			55,254	63.8
Eligible voters			86,615
	Conservative hold		Swing		-1.7
Source: Elections Canada[6]

2021 federal election redistributed results[7]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	27,528	42.43
	Liberal	17,345	26.74
	People's	9,544	14.71
	New Democratic	9,477	14.61
	Green	983	1.52

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dave Epp	25,359	46.9	+5.19	$112,325.66
	Liberal	Katie Omstead	16,899	31.2	-6.03	none listed
	New Democratic	Tony Walsh	8,229	15.2	-3.17	$3,959.54
	Green	Mark Vercouteren	2,233	4.1	+1.42	$372.30
	People's	John Balagtas	1,061	2.0	-	$1,212.06
	Marijuana	Paul Coulbeck	307	0.6	-	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,088	100.0
Total rejected ballots			450
Turnout			54,538	63.3
Eligible voters			86,165
	Conservative hold		Swing		+5.61
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dave Van Kesteren	21,677	41.71	-11.49	$119,230.26
	Liberal	Katie Omstead	19,351	37.23	+20.95	$64,239.01
	New Democratic	Tony Walsh	9,549	18.37	-8.79	$12,638.15
	Green	Mark Vercouteren	1,394	2.68	-0.66	$1,379.30
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,971	100.00		$213,665.70
Total rejected ballots			263	0.50	–
Turnout			52,234	65.99	–
Eligible voters			79,160
	Conservative notional hold		Swing		-16.22
Source: Elections Canada[10][11]

2011 federal election redistributed results[12]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	24,672	53.20
	New Democratic	12,595	27.16
	Liberal	7,553	16.29
	Green	1,551	3.34
	Others	4	0.01

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[13]

Languages: 80.6% English, 3.6% German, 2.2% French, 1.6% Plautdietsch, 1.6% Spanish, 1.1% Portuguese, 1.0% Arabic

Religions: 67.8% Christian (29.4% Catholic, 7.2% United Church, 4.0% Anglican, 3.0% Anabaptist, 2.6% Baptist, 1.8% Pentecostal, 1.8% Presbyterian, 18.0% other), 1.3% Muslim, 29.2% none

Median income: $38,400 (2020)

Average income: $47,480 (2020)

Panethnic groups in Chatham-Kent—Leamington (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021[14]		2016[15]		2011[16]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European[a]	95,120	86.05%	95,740	90.35%	99,730	91.91%
Indigenous	3,760	3.4%	3,265	3.08%	2,595	2.39%
African	3,075	2.78%	2,185	2.06%	1,760	1.62%
Latin American	2,520	2.28%	1,035	0.98%	935	0.86%
Southeast Asian[b]	1,770	1.6%	1,295	1.22%	760	0.7%
Middle Eastern[c]	1,610	1.46%	955	0.9%	1,155	1.06%
South Asian	1,420	1.28%	650	0.61%	635	0.59%
East Asian[d]	645	0.58%	620	0.59%	710	0.65%
Other/multiracial[e]	605	0.55%	220	0.21%	225	0.21%
Total responses	110,535	97.26%	105,965	96.67%	108,505	97%
Total population	113,654	100%	109,619	100%	111,866	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Notes

1. Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
2. Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
3. Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
4. Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
5. Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.