Ontario electoral district | |
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Nepean—Carleton in relation to other electoral districts in Ottawa
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Defunct federal electoral district | |
Legislature | House of Commons |
District created | 1976 |
District abolished | 2013 |
First contested | 1979 |
Last contested | 2011 |
District webpage | profile, map |
Demographics | |
Population (2011) | 159,032 |
Electors (2011) | 103,414 |
Area (km²) | 1,128.05 |
Census divisions | Ottawa |
Census subdivisions | Ottawa |
Nepean—Carleton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons from 1979 to 1988 and since 1997.
It includes the southern portion of the former city of Nepean and adjacent suburban and rural areas of west and southern Ottawa.
Nepean—Carleton consists of the part of the City of Ottawa lying east and south of a line drawn from the southwestern city limit, northeast along the southeast limit of the former Township of Goulbourn, northwest along McCordick Road and Eagleson Road to the southern limit of the former City of Kanata, then along the southern and eastern limits of Kanata, northwest along Eagleson Road, northeast along Highway 417, southwest along Richmond Road, east along the Canadian National Railway, southeast along Merivale Road, east along West Hunt Club Road, south along the Rideau River, east along the former southern limit of the City of Ottawa, south along Riverside Drive, southeast along Limebank Road, northeast along Leitrim Road, northwest along the Canadian Pacific Railway, northeast along Lester Road, northwest along Conroy Road, northeast along Hunt Club Road to Hawthorne Road and then in a straight line to Blake Road, and northeast along Blake Road, east along Highway 417, and southeast along Boundary Road to the eastern city limit.