On June 12, voters head to the polls in the 2014 Ontario election. Learn more about the candidates and political history of the riding of Oak Ridges-Markham.
Candidates
Liberals: Helena Jaczek
Progressive Conservatives: Farid Wassef
NDP: Miles Krauter
Green: Emilia Melara
Geography
History
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Liberal Helena Jaczek has won this riding in both elections it has been contested, winning by almost 5,000 votes over the Tories in 2011 and 7,000 votes in 2007.
By the numbers
Sixty-one per cent of people over 15 are married in this riding, the third highest margin in the province. Chinese, Cantonese or Mandarin is the mother tongue of just over 20 per cent of people here, according to the 2011 census.
Riding in a tweet
In what will likely be its last election, Oak Ridges-Markham is a large, suburban 905 riding the PCs hope to wrest from the Liberals.
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