Parry Sound—Muskoka

Infobox Canada electoral district
province = Ontario


caption = Parry Sound—Muskoka in relation to other Ontario electoral districts
fed-status = active
fed-district-number = 35069
fed-created = 1947
fed-abolished =
fed-election-first = 1949
fed-election-last = 2006
fed-rep = Tony Clement
fed-rep-link =
fed-rep-party = Conservative
fed-rep-party-link = Conservative Party of Canada
demo-census-date = 2006
demo-pop = 90281
demo-electors = 68577
demo-electors-date = 2006
demo-area = 14402
demo-cd = Parry Sound, Muskoka
demo-csd = Huntsville, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Muskoka Lakes, Parry Sound, Seguin, Lake of Bays, McDougall, Georgian Bay, Perry

:"For the provincial electoral district, see Parry Sound—Muskoka (provincial electoral district)

Parry Sound—Muskoka is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1949.

The riding consists of the Territorial District of Parry Sound (excluding the Town of Powassan, the townships of Nipissing and North Himsworth, and the part of the Town of Killarney contained in the district), the District Municipality of Muskoka, and the part of the Town of Kearney lying in the Territorial District of Nipissing.

In 2004, Liberal Andy Mitchell was elected Member of Parliament for the district, and was the Minister of Agriculture. He was narrowly defeated in the 2006 election by Conservative Tony Clement, who is now the Minister of Health.

Federal electoral district

Parry Sound—Muskoka was created in 1947 from parts of Muskoka, Nipissing and Parry Sound ridings

It consisted initially of the territorial districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka (excluding the township of Baxter), and the following townships in the territorial district of Nipissing: Ballantyne, Wilkes, Pentland, Boyd, Paxton, Biggar, Osler, Lister, Butt, Devine, Bishop, Freswick, McCraney, Hunter, McLaughlin, Bower, Finlayson, Peck, Canisbay and Sproule.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the territorial districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound, and Georgian Bay Islands National Park except Flower Pot Island.

In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the Territorial District of Parry Sound, the District Municipality of Muskoka, and the part of Territorial District of Nipissing lying south and west of and including the townships of Ballantyne, Boulter, Lauder, Boyd, Lister, Freswick, Bower and Sproule. In 1987, the Nipissing portions of the riding were removed.

In 1996, the riding was expanded to include the townships of Sherborne, McClintock, Livingstone, Lawrence and Nightingale in the County of Haliburton. The towns of Powassan and Trout Creek and the townships of Nipissing, North Himsworth and South Himsworth in the Territorial District of Parry Sound were excluded from the riding.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

# Bucko McDonald, Liberal (1949-1957)
# Gordon Aiken, Progressive Conservative (1957-1972)
# Stan Darling, Progressive Conservative (1972-1993)
# Andy Mitchell, Liberal (1993-2006)
# Tony Clement, Conservative (2006-present)

Federal election results

CanElec2|2006 *
- bgcolor="white"
align="left" colspan=2|Conservative gain from Liberal
align="right"|Swing
align="right"| -3.79
align="right"

*After a judicial recount, which was required because of the very close result.

See also

* List of Canadian federal electoral districts
* Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=536 Riding history from the] Library of Parliament