Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke (federal electoral district)

The riding was a Liberal stronghold both federally and provincially for over half a century; however, a growing religious and agricultural population has turned this district into one of the most conservative areas of Ontario.

Geography

It consists of

the County of Renfrew; and
the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing lying south and east of and including the townships of Deacon, Lister, Anglin, Dickson, Preston and Airy.

Political geography

Most of the riding was fairly Conservative from 2004 -2015. In the 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections, Deep River was the only significant community which voted Liberal. Pikwakanagan, a First Nations reserve, also voted Liberal, and the Township of Wylie had a tie vote. A small handful of polls in Pembroke voted Liberal, but most of the city voted Conservative.

These demographics changed by the 2015 Federal Election, which saw the Liberals hold onto Pikwakanagan and Deep River, and gain most of the polls in Pembroke, Petawawa, and Eganville along with a number in Arnprior, and Renfrew although most of the rural districts voted Conservative.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnic groups: 85.4% White, 11.3% Indigenous
Languages: 89.3% English, 4.9% French
Religions: 66.7% Christian (34.5% Catholic, 7.0% United Church, 5.4% Anglican, 5.1% Lutheran, 1.8% Presbyterian, 1.7% Baptist, 1.6% Pentecostal, 9.6% Other), 31.6% None
Median income: $42,000 (2020)
Average income: $50,200 (2020)

History

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke was created in 1976 from parts of Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Renfrew North—Nipissing East ridings.

It consisted of the County of Renfrew, excluding the Townships of Bagot and Blythfield and McNab, and the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing including and lying easterly of the Townships of Mattawan, Papineau, Cameron, Deacon, Anglin, Dickson, Preston, Airy and Sabine.

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Renfrew riding. In 1989, Renfrew riding was renamed "Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke".

The new riding consisted of the County of Renfrew, and the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing lying east of and including the townships of Deacon and Lister, and east of but excluding the townships of Freswick, Bower and Sproule, and east of and including the townships of Airy and Sabine.

In 1996, the Nipissing part was redefined as being the part of the district lying east of and including the townships of Deacon and Lister, east of and excluding the townships of Freswick, Bower, Sproule and Nightingale, and east of and including the Township of Sabine.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

This riding was unchanged during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, this riding will be renamed Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Riding created from Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Renfrew North—Nipissing East
31st	1979–1980	Len Hopkins	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Renfrew
34th	1988–1989	Len Hopkins	Liberal
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke
34th	1989–1993	Len Hopkins	Liberal
35th	1993–1997	Len Hopkins
36th	1997–2000	Hec Clouthier
37th	2000–2003	Cheryl Gallant	Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

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Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, 1989 – present

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Graph of election results in Renfrew—Nippissing—Pembroke (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	28,967	49.5	-3.22	$53,347.30
	New Democratic	Jodie Primeau	12,263	21.0	+6.10	$59,124.68
	Liberal	Cyndi Mills	11,335	19.4	-0.16	$47,224.08
	People's	David Ainsworth	4,469	7.6	+5.12	$0.00
	Green	Michael Lariviere	1,111	1.9	-3.58	$2,038.46
	Independent	Stefan Klietsch	373	0.6	N/A	$2,177.57
Total valid votes/Expense limit			58,518	–	–	$122,718.35
Total rejected ballots			459
Turnout
Eligible voters
Source: Elections Canada

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	31,080	52.72	+6.89	$66,041.60
	Liberal	Ruben Marini	11,532	19.56	-13.10	$45,587.70
	New Democratic	Eileen Jones-Whyte	8,786	14.90	+6.34	$16,662.56
	Green	Ian Pineau	3,230	5.48	+3.55	$3,432.43
	People's	David Ainsworth	1,463	2.48		none listed
	Independent	Dan Criger	1,125	1.91		$9,173.74
	Independent	Dheerendra Kumar	917	1.56		none listed
	Veterans Coalition	Robert Cherrin	358	0.61		none listed
	Libertarian	Stefan Klietsch	266	0.45		none listed
	Independent	Jonathan Davis	200	0.34		none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,957	99.21
Total rejected ballots			471	0.79	+0.33
Turnout			59,428	68.79	-3.93
Eligible voters			86,387
	Conservative hold		Swing		+9.99
Source: Elections Canada

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	26,195	45.83	-7.60	$57,534.69
	Liberal	Jeff Lehoux	18,666	32.66	+19.93	$52,131.48
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	6,300	11.02	-7.68	$64,551.59
	New Democratic	Dan McCarthy	4,893	8.56	-4.87	$29,224.75
	Green	Stefan Klietsch	1,105	1.93	+0.22	$3,045.10
Total valid votes/Expense limit			57,159	99.54	–	$223,209.96
Total rejected ballots			264	0.46	–
Turnout			57,423	72.73	+5.84
Eligible voters			78,959
	Conservative hold		Swing		-13.8
Source: Elections Canada

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	27,462	53.43	-7.66	–
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	9,611	18.70	–	–
	New Democratic	Eric Burton	6,903	13.43	+2.50	–
	Liberal	Christine Tabbert	6,545	12.73	-7.84	–
	Green	Rosanne Van Schie	877	1.71	-5.05	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,398	100.00		–
Total rejected ballots			166	0.32	-0.08
Turnout			51,564	66.89	+3.74
Eligible voters			77,082	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	28,908	61.09	+3.4	$56,541
	Liberal	Carole Devine	9,737	20.57	-3.5	$67,673
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	5,175	10.93	-1.6	$31,328
	Green	Ben Hoffman	3,201	6.76	+5.7	$7,564
	Independent	Denis Gagné	293	0.61	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,314	100.0		$87,348
Total rejected ballots			188	0.4	–
Turnout			47,502	63.15	–

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	29,992	57.7	+2.6
	Liberal	Don Lindsay	12,551	24.1	-5.5
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	6,505	12.5	+1.0
	Green	Gordon S. McLeod	1,601	3.1	+0.7
	Independent	Paul Kelly	1,338	2.6	*
Total valid votes			51,987	100.0

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Cheryl Gallant	27,494	55.1	-0.4
	Liberal	Rob Jamieson	14,798	29.6	-9.4
	New Democratic	Sue McSheffrey	5,720	11.5	+8.0
	Green	Gordon S. McLeod	1,191	2.4
	Marijuana	Stanley Sambey	714	1.4	-0.2
Total valid votes			49,917	100.0

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance	Cheryl Gallant	20,634	44.2	+17.4
	Liberal	Hec Clouthier	18,211	39.0	-1.3
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Amaron	5,287	11.3	-14.1
	New Democratic	Ole Hendrickson	1,607	3.4	-3.2
	Marijuana	Stanley E. Sambey	762	1.6
	Independent	Thane C. Heins	121	0.3	*
	Natural Law	André Giordano	78	0.2	-0.2
Total valid votes			46,700	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hec Clouthier	19,569	40.3	-10.3
	Reform	Ed Pinnell	13,035	26.8	+14.6
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Gould	12,352	25.4	+11.6
	New Democratic	Barbara Clarke	3,242	6.7	+4.0
	Canadian Action	Gay Curran-Desmond	236	0.5
	Natural Law	André Giordano	183	0.4	+0.1
Total valid votes			48,617	100.0

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	25,725	50.5	-3.8
	Independent	Hec Clouthier	10,287	20.2
	Progressive Conservative	Milton Stevenson	7,039	13.8	-18.2
	Reform	Edward Pinnell	6,209	12.2
	New Democratic	Barbara Clarke	1,345	2.6	-9.9
	Abolitionist	Murray Reid	145	0.3
	Natural Law	Daphne Quance	143	0.3
Total valid votes			50,893	100.0

Renfrew, 1987 – 1989

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	25,558	54.3	+9.2
	Progressive Conservative	Ben Hoffman	15,081	32.1	-13.0
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter	5,879	12.5	+2.7
	Confederation of Regions	Murray Reid	520	1.1
Total valid votes			47,038	100.0

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, 1976 – 1987

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Graph of election results in Renfrew—Nippissing—Pembroke (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	19,502	45.1	-6.6
	Progressive Conservative	Don Whillans	19,464	45.0	+12.4
	New Democratic	Gavin Murphy	4,253	9.8	-5.8
Total valid votes			43,219	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	20,529	51.7	+2.5
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Amaron	12,966	32.7	-0.8
	New Democratic	Don Breault	6,200	15.6	-1.7
Total valid votes			39,695	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Len Hopkins	20,286	49.2
	Progressive Conservative	Don Sutherland	13,781	33.4
	New Democratic	Don Breault	7,133	17.3
Total valid votes			41,200	100.0

References

Notes

Statistics Canada: 2011
Statistics Canada: 2011
Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
"New Federal Electoral Map for Ontario".
"List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
"List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
"Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, 30 September 2015
Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

External links

Valley News Net Local media coverage of 2006 election

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