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Kitchener—Waterloo (provincial electoral district)

Kitchener—Waterloo
Ontario electoral district
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Kitchener—Waterloo in relation to southern Ontario ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP
 
 
 
Catherine Fife
New Democratic
District created 1996
First contested 1999
Last contested 2014
Demographics
Population (2006) 126,742
Electors (2007) 92,313
Area (km²) 91
Pop. density (per km²) 1,392.8
Census divisions Waterloo
Census subdivisions Waterloo, Kitchener

Kitchener—Waterloo is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2006 was 126,742. The riding was created in 1996 from parts of Waterloo North, Kitchener-Wilmot and Kitchener.

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

The electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

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.

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:


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