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 Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.
Candidates
Liberals: Grant Crack Progressive Conservatives: Roxane Villeneuve Robertson NDP: Isabelle Sabourin Green: Raymond St. Martin
Geography
The riding is the easternmost riding in Ontario and spans from the eastern edge of Orléans to the Quebec border, stretching as far south as Alexandria and St. Albert. Clarence-Rockland, Hawkesbury, and the township of Russell are some of the largest population centres.
History
North Glengarry Mayor Grant Crack won this riding for the Liberals in 2011, defeating PC candidate Marilissa Gosselin by just under 1,500 votes. The Liberals have held this area since 1981, when future federal cabinet minister Don Boudria took the then-riding of Prescott and Russell.
This is the only Ontario riding where the most common mother tongue isn’t English – it’s French: 60.8 per cent of people listed it as their mother tongue last census, compared to just 33.6 per cent for English. Only 4.9 per cent of people identified as immigrants in the last census, the lowest number in southern Ontario.
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