The 2023 Hamilton Centre provincial by-election was held on March 16, 2023.[1] The election was triggered by the resignation of Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) MPP Andrea Horwath.[2] ONDP candidate Sarah Jama won the election, retaining the seat for the party.[3]
Background
Constituency profile
The Hamilton Centre constituency consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Ottawa Street, west along the Niagara Escarpment, southwest along James Mountain Road, south along West 5th Street, west along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour.[citation needed]
Trigger and campaign
On July 26, 2022, incumbent MPP Andrea Horwath announced her candidacy for mayor of Hamilton,[4] and resigned her seat in the provincial legislature on August 15, 2022.[2] The ONDP was considered favoured to retain the seat in the days leading up to the March 2023 election.[5]
Candidates
- Peter House, Electoral Reform Party[6]
- Lucia Iannantuono, Green Party of Ontario[7]
- Sarah Jama, Ontario New Democratic Party[8]
- Matthew Lingard, Independent[6]
- Pete Wiesner, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario[9]
- Deirdre Pike, Ontario Liberal Party[10]
- Mark Snow, Ontario Libertarian Party[6]
- John Turmel, Independent[6]
- Lee Weiss Vassor, New Blue Party of Ontario[11]
- Nathalie Xian Yi Yan, Independent[12]
Result
| Ontario provincial by-election, Hamilton Centre Resignation of Andrea Horwath | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Sarah Jama | 9,560 | 54.28 | -2.98 | ||||
| Liberal | Deirdre Pike | 3,535 | 20.07 | +7.04 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pete Wiesner | 2,733 | 15.52 | -0.95 | ||||
| Green | Lucia Iannantuono | 1,220 | 6.93 | -1.84 | ||||
| New Blue | Lee Weiss Vassor | 148 | 0.84 | -0.82 | ||||
| Electoral Reform | Peter House | 121 | 0.69 | |||||
| Libertarian | Mark Snow | 105 | 0.60 | |||||
| Independent | Matthew Lingard | 102 | 0.58 | |||||
| Independent | Nathalie Xian Yi Yan | 51 | 0.29 | -0.21 | ||||
| Independent | John Turmel | 37 | 0.21 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 17,612 | — | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | — | |||||||
| Turnout | 21.97 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 80,172 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -5.01 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[13] | ||||||||
Previous result
| 2022 Ontario general election: Hamilton Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Andrea Horwath | 16,690 | 57.26 | -7.99 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sarah Bokhari | 4,800 | 16.47 | +0.80 | ||||
| Liberal | Ekaterini Dimakis | 3,799 | 13.03 | +2.15 | ||||
| Green | Sandy Crawley | 2,554 | 8.76 | +3.02 | ||||
| New Blue | John Chroust | 483 | 1.66 | |||||
| Ontario Party | Brad Peace | 451 | 1.55 | |||||
| Communist | Nigel Cheriyan | 225 | 0.77 | +0.41 | ||||
| Independent | Nathalie Xian Yi Yan | 145 | 0.50 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,147 | 99.01 | +0.19 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 291 | 0.99 | -0.19 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,438 | 37.94 | -10.97 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 77,599 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -4.40 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[14] | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Ontario Newsroom". news.ontario.ca.
- ^ a b "Andrea Horwath | Legislative Assembly of Ontario".
- ^ "NDP candidate Sarah JAMA wins provincial Hamilton Centre byelection". Toronto Star. March 16, 2023.
- ^ Rosas, Aura (July 26, 2022). "Here's who is running so far in the 2022 municipal election in Hamilton". CBC News. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
- ^ Hristova, Bobby (March 14, 2023). "Hamilton Centre is NDP's to lose, says expert, but low advance turnout makes outcome hard to predict". CBC. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Beattie, Samantha (March 5, 2023). "Hamilton Centre byelection: Where candidates stand on provincial issues, from housing to health care". CBC News. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "Lucia Iannantuono, Green Party Candidate for Hamilton Centre". Ontario Greens.
- ^ Bobby Hristova (October 16, 2022). "Disability activist Sarah Jama to be acclaimed as Ontario NDP candidate for Hamilton Centre". CBC News. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ^ Desmond Brown (February 3, 2022). "Ontario PC Party names police sergeant as Hamilton Centre candidate ahead of byelection". CBC News. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ^ Saira Peesker (January 13, 2023). "Equity advocate Deirdre Pike to be Ontario Liberals' Hamilton-Centre candidate". CBC News. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ^ "Hamilton Centre". New Blue Party of Ontario.
- ^ "Lucia Iannantuono running for Greens in Hamilton Centre byelection". thestar.com. February 23, 2023.
- ^ "Elections Ontario Real Time Results".
- ^ "Elections Ontario Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. Retrieved December 24, 2022.