Tag: Ontario election

LAMBTON-KENT-MIDDLESEX THE RIDING The sprawling, Prince Edward Island-sized riding has been Tory blue since 2011, when the Progressive Conservatives won it from the Liberals who had held it through two terms. The mostly rural riding, anchored by the towns of Wallaceburg in the west and Strathroy-Caradoc in the east, stretches from Lucan Biddulph Township in […]

This is one in a series of local riding profiles ahead of the June 2 provincial election: THE RIDING This riding of more than 6,000 square kilometres hugs the Lake Huron shore, from Port Elgin at its northern tip south to Grand Bend, and far enough eastward to take in towns such as Walkerton, Seaforth […]

SARNIA-LAMBTON THE RIDING Taking in Sarnia and western Lambton County, it also includes Petrolia, Point Edward, St. Clair, Plympton-Wyoming, Oil Springs and Enniskillen. The riding, which borders Michigan across the St. Clair River, is home to a major petro-chemical industrial hub and agriculture looms large in the district’s rural reaches. Created in 1999, the riding […]

2:30 p.m. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are maintaining a strong lead with a little over a week left in the provincial election campaign, the latest poll by Postmedia/Leger says. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they intend to vote PC, while support for Steven Del Duca’s Liberals dropped from 28 to 26 per cent from […]