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Oakville North—Burlington

Oakville North—Burlington
Ontario electoral district
Federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
MP
 
 
 
Pam Damoff
Liberal
District created 2013
First contested 2015
District webpage profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011) 114,378
Electors (2015) 84,100
Area (km²) 92
Pop. density (per km²) 1,243.2
Census divisions Halton
Census subdivisions Burlington, Oakville

Oakville North—Burlington (French: Oakville-Nord—Burlington) is a federal electoral district in Halton Region, Ontario.

Oakville North—Burlington 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 October 2015. The riding was created out of part of the electoral district of Halton.

On June 7, 2015, at the Burlington Convention Centre, Conservative members of the Oakville North-Burlington Electoral District Association nominated Effie Triantafilopoulos as their official candidate for the October 19, 2015 federal election.

Adnan Shahbaz is an educator working in the Curriculum Support Services division of a local school board as an Instructional Coach. He has worked as a classroom teacher, a behavioral support and special education teacher for nearly a decade. Adnan was born and raised in Toronto and has called Oakville and Burlington home since 2001. He is the only candidate who actually lives in the riding.

Ward 6 Councillor for Oakville, Max Khan bested aviation-pilot Rohit Dhamjia by an unknown number of votes in the party's nomination vote on September 25, 2014, in Oakville. Khan died at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on March 29, 2015, vacating his role as the Liberals candidate. Oakville Town Councillor and longtime community volunteer Pam Damoff was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate on May 26, 2015.

On January 6, 2015, the Libertarian Party of Canada nominated David Clement. David is a local entrepreneur in the consulting field.

On March 22, 2015 members from the ONB NDP nominated Rebecca Rajcak, an OSSTF member and high school teacher in Oakville. She later resigned the candidacy and Janice Best, a local union official, replaced her as the NDP candidate.

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:


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