Scarborough—Rouge River
 Ontario electoral district
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Scarborough—Rouge River in relation to the other Toronto ridings
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| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 1987 |
| District abolished | 2013 |
| First contested | 1988 |
| Last contested | 2011 |
| District webpage | profile, map |
| Demographics | |
| Population (2011) | 135,102 |
| Electors (2011) | 85,505 |
| Area (km²) | 51.17 |
| Census divisions | Toronto |
| Census subdivisions | Toronto |
Scarborough—Rouge River was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada between 1988 and 2015. However, as of the Fall 2015 federal election, part of this riding has been combined with the south-western part of the old riding Pickering—Scarborough East.
The riding covered the northeast part of the Scarborough part of Toronto. It stretched from Highway 401 in the south to Steeles Avenue in the north. In the east it ended at the border with Pickering and in the west at Midland north of Finch and Brimley south of Finch.
Scarborough—Rouge River has the highest percentage of visible minorities in all electoral districts (89.7%) and the lowest percentage of White Caucasians (10.1%). Chinese make up 30.8%, South Asian 32.8% (all South Asian countries), Black 10.7%, White 8.7% Tamil is the mother tongue for 13.2% of the population, which is the highest such percentage for that language among all ridings; likewise for Tamil as a home language (10.5%). 13.6% of the population is Hindu, the highest in Canada.
In the 2011 federal election, the NDP were elected for the first time. The riding was redistributed to Scarborough North and Scarborough—Rouge Park with new elected MPs as of the 2015 federal election.
Scarborough—Rouge River consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north and east by the city limits, on the west by Midland Avenue, and on the south by a line drawn from the east city limit west along Finch Avenue East, south along Meadowvale Road, west along Sheppard Avenue East, south along Morningside Avenue, west along Highway 401, north along Brimley Road, and west along Finch Avenue East to Midland Avenue.
The riding was created in 1987 from part of York—Scarborough riding.
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