Kitchener—Waterloo (electoral district)

Kitchener—Waterloo

Ontario electoral district
Kitchener—Waterloo in relation to southern Ontario ridings (2003)
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1996
District abolished	2013
First contested	1997
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	130,162
Electors (2011)	97,511
Area (km²)	84.95
Census divisions	Waterloo
Census subdivisions	Waterloo, Kitchener

Kitchener—Waterloo was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.

The district consisted of the City of Waterloo and the northern part of the City of Kitchener.

The electoral district was created in 1996 from part of Waterloo riding.

It consisted initially of the City of Waterloo and the part of the City of Kitchener lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Lawrence Avenue and Victoria Street.

In 2003, the Kitchener part of the riding was redefined to be the part of the city lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West, Fischer Hallman Road and the Canadian National Railway situated north of Shadeland Crescent.

Following the 2011 Census and a Canadian Parliament decision to increase the number of Federal electoral districts from 308 to 338, Elections Canada conducted a redistribution exercise beginning in 2012 that was concluded on October 1, 2013. As a result of the redistribution exercise, the Kitchener—Waterloo district was abolished into Waterloo, Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Conestoga districts.

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