Mississauga—Lakeshore (provincial electoral district)

Mississauga—Lakeshore is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. This riding was formerly known as Mississauga South prior to 2015.

It includes the neighbourhoods of Cawthra, Sheridan Heights, Park Royal, Clarkson, Rattray Park Estates, Lorne Park, Lorne Park Estates, Port Credit, Applewood Acres, Lakeview and Orchard Heights. It has a population of 113,003 and an area of 61 km.

In 2003, it was defined to consist of the part of the City of Mississauga lying southeast of a line drawn from northeast to southwest along the Queensway to the Credit River, west along the Credit River, and southwest along Dundas Street West to the southwestern city limit.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Mississauga South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
*Riding created*
30th	1975–1977		Douglas Kennedy	Progressive Conservative
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987		Margaret Marland	Progressive Conservative
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007		Tim Peterson	Liberal
	2007–2007			Independent
	2007–2007			Progressive Conservative
39th	2007–2011		Charles Sousa	Liberal
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
Mississauga—Lakeshore
42nd	2018–2022		Rudy Cuzzetto	Progressive Conservative
43rd	2022–present		Rudy Cuzzetto	Progressive Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly

Electoral history

Once one of the strongest bastions of PC support in the province (winning 61% of the vote as recently as 1999), and certainly in the Toronto area, Mississauga South provincially has become more and more Liberal in last election cycles.

Election results

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Rudy Cuzzetto	19,341	45.09	+2.76
	Liberal	Elizabeth Mendes	15,768	36.76	+1.73
	New Democratic	Julia Kole	3,647	8.50	−9.80
	Green	David Zeni	2,160	5.04	+2.08
	New Blue	Renata Cynarska	1,014	2.36
	Ontario Party	George Cescon	501	1.17
	None of the Above	Brian Crombie	459	1.07	+0.39
Total valid votes			42,890	100.0
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			197
Turnout			43,087	46.95
Eligible voters			91,907
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.51
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Rudy Cuzzetto	22,520	42.33	+8.88
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	18,636	35.03	-15.45
	New Democratic	Boris Rosolak	9,735	18.30	+7.62
	Green	Lloyd Jones	1,572	2.95	-0.24
	None of the Above	Kenny Robinson	363	0.68
	Libertarian	Jay Ward	223	0.42
	Go Vegan	Felicia Trigiani	150	0.28
Total valid votes			53,199	99.12
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			474	0.88
Turnout			53,673	59.33
Eligible voters			90,469
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+12.17
Source: Elections Ontario

2014 general election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	23,269	50.49
	Progressive Conservative	15,420	33.45
	New Democratic	4,921	10.68
	Green	1,471	3.19
	Others	1,010	2.19

Mississauga South, 1977-2014

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	22,192	50.76	+0.05
	Progressive Conservative	Effie Triantafilopoulos	14,514	33.20	-2.89
	New Democratic	Boris Rosolak	4,649	10.63	+0.57
	Green	Lloyd Jones	1,418	3.24	+1.10
	None of the Above	Andrew Weber	591	1.35
	Libertarian	James Judson	355	0.81
Total valid votes			43,719	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.47
Source: Elections Ontario

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	20,375	50.71	+3.92
	Progressive Conservative	Geoff Janoscik	14,499	36.09	+1.69
	New Democratic	Anju Sikka	4,044	10.06	+0.93
	Green	Cory Mogk	860	2.14	-6.7
	Freedom	Mark Harris	236	0.59
	Vegan Environmental	Paul Figueiras	165	0.41
Total valid votes			40,179	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			178	0.44
Turnout			40,357	51.25
Eligible voters			78,746
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.12
Source: Elections Ontario

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Sousa	19,195	46.79	+2.99
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Peterson	14,114	34.40	-8.8
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	3,745	9.13	-0.05
	Green	David Johnston	3,627	8.84	+6.43
	Family Coalition	Samantha Toteda	345	0.84	-0.57
Total valid votes			41,026	100.0

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	26,121	65.1
	Mixed member proportional	13,985	34.9
	Total valid votes	40,106	100.0

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Tim Peterson	17,211	43.80	+12.32
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	16,977	43.20	-18.07
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	3,606	9.18	+3.3
	Green	Pamela Murray	949	2.41
	Family Coalition	Alfred Zawadzki	555	1.41
Total valid votes			39,298	100.0%

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	23,890	61.27	-8.49
	Liberal	Ieva Martin	12,275	31.48	+14.73
	New Democratic	Ken Cole	2,293	5.88	-4.02
	Independent	Tim Sullivan	535	1.37
Total valid votes			38,993	100.0

1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	23,116	69.76	+17.31
	Liberal	Ieva Martin	5,551	16.75	-3.54
	New Democratic	David Messenger	3,282	9.90	-13.31
	Natural Law	Scott Kay	334	1.01
	Independent	Adrian Earl Crewson	309	0.93
	Independent	Wolfgang G. Mueller	287	0.87
	Green	Matthew Wood	256	0.77	-3.28
Total valid votes			33,135	100.0

1990 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	17,126	52.45	+10.21
	New Democratic	Sue Craig	7,579	23.21	+8.04
	Liberal	Donna Scott	6,624	20.29	-20.13
	Green	Scott McWhinnie	1,323	4.05
Total valid votes			32,652	100.0

1987 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	13,854	42.24	-2.34
	Liberal	Claudette MacKay-Lassonde	13,255	40.42	+1.13
	New Democratic	Barry Stevens	4,976	15.17	-0.96
	Freedom	Chris Balabanian	712	2.17
Total valid votes			32,797	100.0

1985 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Marland	13,186	44.58	-11.05
	Liberal	Carolynne Siller	11,623	39.29	+11.12
	New Democratic	Barry Stevens	4,770	16.13	-0.07
Total valid votes			29,579	100.0

1981 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Kennedy	14,165	55.63	+7.72
	Liberal	Basil Gerol	7,172	28.17	+1.39
	New Democratic	Neil Davis	4,126	16.20	-9.11
Total valid votes			25,463	100.0

1977 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Kennedy	13,622	47.91
	Liberal	Mike Garvey	7,616	26.78
	New Democratic	Ted Humphreys	7,196	25.31
Total valid votes			28,434	100.0

References

"Ontario's Liberal government adds 15 new ridings, bringing total to 122". CBC. Canadian Press. December 2, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Douglas Kennedy's Legislative Assembly information see "Robert Douglas Kennedy, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- For Margaret Marland's Legislative Assembly information see "Margaret Marland, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
- For Tim Peterson's Legislative Assembly information see "Tim Peterson, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
- For Charles Sousa's Legislative Assembly information see "Charles Sousa, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2015.
"Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 7. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
"63 - Mississauga-Lakeshore".
Elections Ontario (2014). "Official result from the records, 050 Mississauga South" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Mississauga South" (PDF). Retrieved 3 June 2014.
1995 Election results Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

External links

Map of riding for 2018 election

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