Hamilton Centre (provincial electoral district)

For the federal electoral district, see Hamilton Centre (federal electoral district).

Hamilton Centre is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Hamilton Centre

Ontario electoral district
Hamilton Centre in relation to the other Hamilton ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Robin Lennox New Democratic
First contested	2007
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2021)	106,439
Electors (2025)	78,879
Area (km²)	47
Pop. density (per km²)	2,264.7
Census division(s)	Hamilton
Census subdivision(s)	Hamilton

It was created for the 1926 provincial election but abolished with the 1999 provincial election when the number of constituencies represented in the legislature was reduced. It was re-created for the 2007 election from parts of Hamilton East, Hamilton West ridings. It consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Kenilworth Avenue, west along the Niagara Escarpment, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Hamilton Centre
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding re-created from Hamilton East, and Hamilton West
17th	1926–1929		Thomas William Jutten	Conservative
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937		William Frederick Schwenger	Liberal
20th	1937–1938
	1938–1943		John Newlands
21st	1943–1945		Robert Desmond Thornberry	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		Vernon Charles Knowles	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		Robert Desmond Thornberry	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		Bill Warrender	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967		Ada Pritchard
28th	1967–1971		Norman Davison	New Democratic
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977		Mike Davison
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1984		Sheila Copps	Liberal
	1984–1985		Mike Davison	New Democratic
33rd	1985–1987		Lily Oddie Munro	Liberal
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995		David Christopherson	New Democratic
36th	1995–1999
Riding dissolved into Hamilton East, and Hamilton West
Riding re-created from Hamilton East, and Hamilton West
39th	2007–2011		Andrea Horwath	New Democratic
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022
43rd	2022–2022
	2023–2023		Sarah Jama
	2023–2025			Independent
44th	2025–present		Robin Lennox	New Democratic

Election results

Hamilton Centre, 2007–present

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

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Robin Lennox	12,839	38.36	–15.86
	Liberal	Eileen Walker	7,132	21.31	+1.05
	Progressive Conservative	Sarah Bokhari	6,331	18.92	+3.53
	Independent	Sarah Jama	4,977	14.87	N/A
	Green	Lucia Iannantuono	1,642	4.91	–1.99
	New Blue	Mitch Novosad	441	1.32	+0.47
	Independent	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	107	0.32	+0.03
Total valid votes/expense limit			33,469	99.66	+0.18
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			113	0.34	–0.18
Turnout			33,582	42.57	+20.60
Eligible voters			78,879
	New Democratic gain from Independent		Swing		–8.46
Source: Elections Ontario[1][2]

Ontario provincial by-election, March 16, 2023: Hamilton Centre Resignation of Andrea Horwath
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Sarah Jama	9,477	54.22	-2.98
	Liberal	Deirdre Pike	3,542	20.26	+7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Pete Wiesner	2,690	15.39	-0.95
	Green	Lucia Iannantuono	1,206	6.90	-1.84
	New Blue	Lee Weiss Vassor	148	0.85	-0.82
	Electoral Reform	Peter House	121	0.69
	Libertarian	Mark Snow	109	0.62
	Independent	Matthew Lingard	98	0.56
	Independent	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	51	0.29	-0.21
	Independent	John Turmel	38	0.22
Total valid votes			17,480	—
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			91	—
Turnout			17,571	21.97
Eligible voters			80,172
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-5.01
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

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

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	16,690	57.26	−7.99	$91,582
	Progressive Conservative	Sarah Bokhari	4,800	16.47	+0.80	$11,970
	Liberal	Ekaterini Dimakis	3,799	13.03	+2.15	$11,923
	Green	Sandy Crawley	2,554	8.76	+3.02	$591
	New Blue	John Chroust	483	1.66		$0
	Ontario Party	Brad Peace	451	1.55		$589
	Communist	Nigel Cheriyan	225	0.77	+0.41	$0
	Independent	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	145	0.50		$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			29,147	99.01	+0.19	$108,893
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			291	0.99	–0.19
Turnout			29,438	37.94	–10.97
Eligible voters			77,781
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−4.40
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.

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	23,866	65.25	+10.70	$54,049
	Progressive Conservative	Dionne Duncan	5,730	15.67	+3.00	$15,966
	Liberal	Deirdre Pike	3,982	10.89	−11.04	$30,349
	Green	Jason Lopez	2,102	5.75	−3.46	$3,408
	None of the Above	Tony Lemma	320	0.87	N/A	$0
	Libertarian	Robert Young	285	0.78	N/A	none listed
	Independent	Maria Anastasiou	156	0.43	N/A	none listed
	Communist	Mary Ellen Campbell	134	0.37	N/A	none listed
Total valid votes			36,575	98.82
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			436	1.18
Turnout			37,011	48.91
Eligible voters			75,672
	New Democratic notional hold		Swing		+3.85
Source: Elections Ontario[4][5][6]

^ Results are compared to redistributed results

2014 general election redistributed results[7]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	16,248	54.55
	Liberal	6,532	21.93
	Progressive Conservative	3,773	12.67
	Green	2,741	9.20
	Others	489	1.64

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	18,697	52.01	-9.32
	Liberal	Donna Tiqui-Shebib	8,450	23.50	+6.04
	Progressive Conservative	John Vail	5,173	14.39	+1.22
	Green	Peter Ormond	3,067	8.53	+4.81
	Freedom	Peter Melanson	334	0.93	+0.54
	Communist	Bob Mann	229	0.64	+0.27
Total valid votes			35,950	97.88	-1.59
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			778	2.12	+1.59
Turnout			36,728	44.76	+2.32
Eligible voters			82,062
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-7.68
Source: Elections Ontario[8]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	20,586	61.33	+16.61
	Liberal	Donna Tiqui-Shebib	5,861	17.46	-11.43
	Progressive Conservative	Don Sheppard	4,421	13.17	-1.60
	Green	Peter Ormond	1,249	3.72	-5.68
	Libertarian	Robert Kuhlmann	634	1.89
	Independent	Micheal Baldasaro	268	0.80
	Family Coalition	Steve Passmore	229	0.68	-0.75
	Freedom	Chris Lawson	130	0.39
	Communist	Anthony Gracey	122	0.36	-0.42
	Reform	Robert Szajkowski	67	0.20
Total valid votes			33,567	99.48	+0.54
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			177	0.52	-0.54
Turnout			33,744	42.43	-6.20
Eligible voters			79,524
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+14.02
Sources: Elections Ontario[9] The Hamilton Spectator[10] The Hamilton Spectator[11]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	17,176	44.72	+11.27
	Liberal	Steve Ruddick	11,096	28.89	-13.45
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Robertson	5,673	14.77	-3.56
	Green	Peter Ormond	3,610	9.40
	Family Coalition	Lynne Scime	550	1.43
	Communist	Bob Mann	302	0.79
Total valid votes			38,407	98.93
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			415	1.07
Turnout			38,822	48.63
Eligible voters			79,828
	New Democratic notional gain from Liberal		Swing		+12.36

2003 general election redistributed results[12]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	15,116	42.34
	New Democratic	11,942	33.45
	Progressive Conservative	6,544	18.33
	Others	2,099	5.88

Hamilton Centre, 1926–1999

1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	8,012	36.81	-18.51
	Liberal	Filomena Tassi	7,322	33.64	+2.83
	Progressive Conservative	Angie Tomasic	5,723	26.30	+17.95
	Family Coalition	Tom Wigglesworth	376	1.73	+0.29
	Natural Law	Monique Poudrette	331	1.52	–
Total valid votes			21,764	98.32
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			372	1.68	-0.05
Turnout			22,136	54.71	-5.07
Eligible voters			40,459
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-10.67

1990 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	David Christopherson	14,029	55.32	+16.43
	Liberal	Lily Munro	7,814	30.81	-20.51
	Progressive Conservative	Graham Snelgrove	2,116	8.34	-1.44
	Green	Brent Monkley	605	2.39
	Libertarian	Julien Frost	429	1.69
	Family Coalition	Jewell Wolgram	365	1.44
Total valid votes			25,358	98.27
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			446	1.73	+0.58
Turnout			25,804	59.78	+1.02
Eligible voters			43,166
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+18.47

1987 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lily Munro	13,636	51.32	+7.31
	New Democratic	Brian Hinkley	10,333	38.89	-3.28
	Progressive Conservative	Gerald Fruehwirth	2,600	9.79	-4.03
Total valid votes			26,569	98.85
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			310	1.15	+0.16
Turnout			26,879	58.76	+1.91
Eligible voters			45,745
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.30

1985 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lily Munro	9,184	44.01	+6.49
	New Democratic	Michael Davison	8,800	42.17	+4.25
	Progressive Conservative	James Ankers	2,883	13.82	-9.86
Total valid votes			20,867	99.01
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			209	0.99
Turnout			21,076	56.85
Eligible voters			37,076
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+1.12

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	20,969	56.7
	Mixed member proportional	16,027	43.3
	Total valid votes	36,996	100.0