Niagara West (federal electoral district)

Not to be confused with Niagara West (provincial electoral district).

Niagara West

Ontario electoral district
Niagara West in relation to nearby electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Dean Allison Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	86,533
Electors (2015)	68,333
Area (km²)	1,057
Pop. density (per km²)	81.9
Census division(s)	Niagara
Census subdivision(s)	Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, St. Catharines, Wainfleet, West Lincoln

Niagara West (French: Niagara-Ouest) is a federal electoral district in Ontario. It encompasses a portion of Ontario formerly included in the electoral districts of Niagara West—Glanbrook, Welland and St. Catharines. It is currently represented by Dean Allison.

Geography

It consists of the towns of Grimsby, Lincoln and Pelham, the Townships of West Lincoln and Wainfleet, and part of the City of St. Catharines lying westerly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the northerly limit of said city with the production of Courtleigh Road; thence southerly along said production, Courtleigh Road, and Third Street Louth to Queen Elizabeth Way; thence easterly along Queen Elizabeth Way to Highway No. 406; thence generally southerly along said highway to First Street Louth; thence southerly along said street to the southerly limit of said city.

History

Niagara West 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.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnic groups: 90.4% White, 3.0% Indigenous, 1.9% South Asian, 1.3% Black

Languages: 86.3% English, 1.8% Dutch, 1.3% French, 1.2% Italian

Religions: 65.1% Christian (25.9% Catholic, 6.1% United Church, 5.8% Anglican, 4.6% Reformed, 2.0% Presbyterian, 1.4% Christian Orthodox, 1.3% Baptist, 1.1% Anabaptist, 1.0% Lutheran, 1.0% Pentecostal, 14.9% Other), 1.0% Muslim, 32.2% None

Median income: $46,000 (2020)

Average income: $59,250 (2020)

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Niagara West Riding created from Niagara West—Glanbrook. St. Catharines and Welland
42nd	2015–2019		Dean Allison	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Niagara West (parties that never received 2% of the vote are omitted)

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dean Allison	25,206	45.6	+0.2
	Liberal	Ian Bingham	16,815	30.4	-1.9
	New Democratic	Nameer Rahman	7,064	12.8	+0.7
	People's	Shaunalee Derkson	3,933	7.1	+5.5
	Green	Joanna Kocsis	1,602	2.9	-3.8
	Christian Heritage	Harold Jonker	657	1.2	-0.7
Total valid votes			55,277	99.6
Total rejected ballots			217	0.4
Turnout			55,494	71.6
Eligible voters			77,484
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.1
Source: Elections Canada

2021 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	27,497	44.03
	Liberal	19,391	31.05
	New Democratic	8,724	13.97
	People's	4,430	7.09
	Green	1,749	2.80
	Others	657	1.05

2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dean Allison	24,447	45.4	-3.42	$86,960.67
	Liberal	Ian Bingham	17,429	32.3	-0.43	$77,942.53
	New Democratic	Nameer Rahman	6,540	12.1	+0.65	none listed
	Green	Terry Teather	3,620	6.7	+3.72	$4,788.88
	Christian Heritage	Harold Jonker	1,019	1.9	-0.54	$16,035.83
	People's	Miles Morton	869	1.6		none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,924	100.0
Total rejected ballots			252
Turnout			54,176	72.5
Eligible voters			74,760
	Conservative hold		Swing		-2.99
Source: Elections Canada

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dean Allison	24,732	48.82	-10.64	$81,875.54
	Liberal	Phil Rose	16,581	32.73	+18.44	$55,489.05
	New Democratic	Nameer Rahman	5,802	11.45	-7.76	$12,449.14
	Green	Sid Frere	1,511	2.98	-1.53	$990.69
	Christian Heritage	Harold Jonker	1,234	2.44	–	$21,772.10
	Libertarian	Allan de Roo	797	1.57	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,657	100.00		$202,783.01
Total rejected ballots			242	0.48	–
Turnout			50,889	73.83	–
Eligible voters			68,937
	Conservative hold		Swing		-14.54
Source: Elections Canada

2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	25,999	59.47
	New Democratic	8,401	19.22
	Liberal	6,249	14.29
	Green	1,972	4.51
	Others	1,100	2.52

See also

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