Milton (provincial electoral district)

For the former federal district, see Milton (federal electoral district).

Milton is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The riding was created in 2015.^[1]

Milton

Ontario electoral district
Milton in relation to nearby electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Zee Hamid Progressive Conservative
District created	2015
First contested	2018
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2021)	136,993
Electors (2018)	78,764
Area (km²)	450
Pop. density (per km²)	304.4
Census division(s)	Halton
Census subdivision(s)	Burlington, Milton

The riding is coterminous with the federal electoral district of the same name. It consists of all of Milton plus the city of Burlington north of Dundas Street and Highway 407.

Profile

The riding (electoral district) in its current form consists of the part of Burlington north of Dundas Street and Highway 407 and the town of Milton.^[2] The eponymous town, which makes up much of the riding's area, is a quickly growing settlement which dates back to the 1820s.^[2][3][4] According to the 2016 census, the riding population grew over six times as much as the Ontario average between 2011 and 2016, from 88,065 to 114,093 (a 29.6% increase compared to the provincial average of 4.6%).^[5] Over a third of the riding's population are immigrants. In 2015, the median income in the riding was $42,779, up from $41,801 in 2010.^[5][6] The median age in the district is 36, below the Ontario average of 41.^[5]

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2013 representation^[7]

Languages: 56.3% English, 9.4% Urdu, 4% Arabic, 2.3% Spanish, 1.8% Punjabi, 1.5% Tagalog, 1.3% Polish, 1.2% Portuguese, 1.1% French, 1.1% Hindi, 1.1% Mandarin
Religions: 48.4% Christian (27.9% Catholic, 3.1% Christian Orthodox, 2.6% Anglican, 2% United Church, 1.4% Pentecostal, 1.1% Presbyterian), 22.6% Muslim, 19.4% No religion, 5.9% Hindu, 2.4% Sikh
Median income (2020): $46,000
Average income (2020): $60,000

Ethnicity groups: White: 45.3%, South Asian: 27.6%, Black: 5.7%, Arab: 5.6%, Filipino: 3.9%, Chinese: 2.8%, Latin American: 2.5%, West Asian: 1.3%, Southeast Asian: 1%

Ethnic origins: Pakistani 11.9%, English 11.5%, Indian 10.6%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 9.2%, Canadian 8.9%, Italian 5.8%, German 4.7%, Filipino 4%, Portuguese 3.9%

Members of Provincial Parliament

Milton
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Halton
42nd	2018–2022		Parm Gill	Progressive Conservative
43rd	2022–2024
	2024–2025		Zee Hamid
44th	2025–present

Election results

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

2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Zee Hamid	20,091	47.43	+0.39
	Liberal	Kristina Tesser Derksen	17,551	41.44	+3.19
	New Democratic	Katherine Cirlincione	2,403	5.67	–1.09
	Green	Susan Doyle	1,130	2.67	–0.09
	New Blue	John Spina	866	2.04	–1.98
	Centrist	Mohsin Rizvi	316	0.75	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,357	99.45	–0.29
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			235	0.55	+0.29
Turnout			42,592	42.45	+14.73
Eligible voters			100,342
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–1.40
Source: Elections Ontario[8][9]

Main article: 2024 Milton provincial by-election

Ontario provincial by-election, May 2, 2024 Resignation of Parm Gill
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Zee Hamid	12,880	47.04	+3.97
	Liberal	Galen Naidoo Harris	10,473	38.25	-0.50
	New Democratic	Edie Strachan	1,851	6.76	-2.94
	New Blue	John Spina	1,102	4.02	-0.03
	Green	Kyle Hutton	755	2.76	-1.38
	Ontario Party	Frederick Weening	111	0.41
	Family Rights	Tony Walton	101	0.37
	Independent	John Turmel	64	0.23
	Independent	Arabella Vida	42	0.15
Total valid votes			27,379	99.74	+0.33
Total rejected ballots			72	0.26	-0.33
Turnout			27,451	27.72	-14.99
Eligible voters			98,785
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+2.24
Source: Elections Ontario

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

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Parm Gill	16,766	43.07	+1.40	$47,201
	Liberal	Sameera Ali	15,086	38.75	+8.92	$55,857
	New Democratic	Katherine Cirlincione	3,777	9.70	−12.54	$21,161
	Green	Oriana Knox	1,612	4.14	−0.88	$1,700
	New Blue	John Spina	1,579	4.06	N/A	$9,745
	Consensus Ontario	Masood Khan	107	0.27	N/A	none listed
Total valid votes			38,927	99.41	+0.32
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			231	0.59	-0.32
Turnout			39,158	42.70	-13.40
Eligible voters			91,696
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−3.76
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. "Political Financing and Party Information". Elections Ontario. Retrieved 4 March 2025.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Parm Gill	18,249	41.67	+4.12	$58,739
	Liberal	Indira Naidoo-Harris	13,064	29.83	-13.26	$49,410
	New Democratic	Brendan Smyth	9,740	22.24	+7.83	$370
	Green	Eleanor Hayward	2,200	5.02	+1.44	$81
	Libertarian	Benjamin Cunningham	366	0.84	N/A	none listed
	Social Reform	Enam Ahmed	170	0.39	N/A	none listed
Total valid votes			43,789	99.09
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			403	0.91
Turnout			44,192	56.11
Eligible voters			78,764
	Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.69
Source: Elections Ontario[10][11][12]

^ Results are compared to redistributed results

2014 general election redistributed results[13]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	13,964	43.09
	Progressive Conservative	12,171	37.56
	New Democratic	4,672	14.42
	Green	1,161	3.58
	Others	437	1.35