Brampton Centre (provincial electoral district)

Brampton Centre
Ontario electoral district
	Location in Brampton
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Charmaine Williams; Progressive Conservative
;
District created	2015
First contested	2018
Last contested	2022
Demographics
Population (2016)	102,275
Electors (2018)	67,432
Area (km²)	44
Pop. density (per km²)	2,324.4
Census division(s)	Peel
Census subdivision(s)	Brampton

Brampton Centre is a provincial electoral district in central Ontario, Canada that elects one Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was originally created in 1999 from Brampton North and Brampton South. It was abolished in 2007 into Brampton West and Brampton—Springdale. For the 2018 election, it was re-created from Bramalea—Gore—Malton, Brampton—Springdale, and Mississauga—Brampton South.[1]

The former riding included Brampton west of Dixie Road and east of a line following McLaughlin Road to Bovaird Drive to Main Street to Steeles Avenue to Kennedy Road.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Brampton Centre
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
37th	1999–2003		Joe Spina	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2007		Linda Jeffrey	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Brampton West and Brampton—Springdale
Riding re-created from Bramalea—Gore—Malton, Brampton—Springdale and Mississauga—Brampton South
42nd	2018–2022		Sara Singh	New Democratic
43rd	2022–present		Charmaine Williams	Progressive Conservative

Election results

2018–present

2022 Ontario general election
Preliminary results — Not yet official
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Charmaine Williams	10,120	41.36	+3.26
	New Democratic	Sara Singh	6,524	26.67	-11.71
	Liberal	Safdar Hussain	6,119	25.01	+7.67
	Green	Karitsa Tye	882	3.61	+0.47
	New Blue	Kathrin Matusiak	821	3.36
Total valid votes			24,466
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots
Turnout				36.35	-14.00
Eligible voters			67,312
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+7.48
Source: Elections Ontario[2]

2018 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Sara Singh	12,892	38.37
	Progressive Conservative	Harjit Jaswal	12,803	38.11
	Liberal	Safdar Hussain	5,825	17.34
	Green	Laila Zarrabi Yan	1,053	3.13
	Libertarian	Andrew Hosie	644	1.92
	Trillium	William Oprel	216	0.64
	None of the Above	Mehdi Pakzad	166	0.49
Total valid votes			33,598	98.97
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			351	1.03
Turnout			33,949	50.35
Eligible voters			67,432
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

1999–2007

2003 Ontario general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Linda Jeffrey	16,661	43.48	+15.48
Progressive Conservative	Joe Spina	15,656	40.86	-16.91
New Democratic	Kathy Pounder	4,827	12.60	-1.63
Green	Sanjeev Goel	820	2.14
Freedom	Wally Dove	356	0.93

1999 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Spina	20,623	57.77
	Liberal	Gurjit S. Grewal	9,994	28.00
	New Democratic	Paul Schmidt	5,080	14.23

References

"Ontario provincial elections to move to spring as Liberals promise to tackle largely unregulated third-party ads". National Post. June 4, 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
"Candidates in: Brampton Centre (008)". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
"Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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[2018_election-1] "Ontario provincial elections to move to spring as Liberals promise to tackle largely unregulated third-party ads". National Post. June 4, 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-16.

[2] "Candidates in: Brampton Centre (008)". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 21, 2022.

[3] "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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Peel	Brampton Centre Brampton East Brampton North Brampton South Brampton West Mississauga Centre Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erin Mills Mississauga—Lakeshore Mississauga—Malton Mississauga—Streetsville
Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara	Burlington Flamborough—Glanbrook Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas Milton Niagara Centre Niagara Falls Niagara West Oakville North—Burlington Oakville St. Catharines
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See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario