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 Lambton-Kent-Middlesex.
Candidates
Liberals: Mike Radan
Progressive Conservatives: Monte McNaughton
NDP: Joe Hill
Green: James Armstrong
Geography
History
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This was another rural riding that the Liberals took in the 2003 and 2007 elections, but went back to the Tories in 2011, with Monte McNaughton defeating MPP Maria van Bommel by nearly 7,000 votes. The riding, along with its main predecessor Lambton East, had elected the party that formed government in every election since 1987.
By the numbers
Eighty-nine per cent of people listed English as their mother tongue in the 2011 census, 11th highest in southern Ontario. The population density is 21.68 people per square kilometre, 7th sparsest in southern Ontario.
Riding in a tweet
All three parties expect to be competitive in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, but it’s expected to go PC.
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