Ottawa South (fr. Ottawa-Sud) is a riding (electoral district) in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the city of Ottawa. It is represented in the Canadian House of Commons by Member of Parliament David McGuinty, and represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by his brother, the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. The population is 114,032.
The riding is considered to be a safe one for the Liberals (both provincially and federally). The...
more
Ottawa South (fr. Ottawa-Sud) is a riding (electoral district) in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the city of Ottawa. It is represented in the Canadian House of Commons by Member of Parliament David McGuinty, and represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by his brother, the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. The population is 114,032.
The riding is considered to be a safe one for the Liberals (both provincially and federally). The riding has been gravitating towards the Conservatives since the early 1990s, but still regularly votes Liberal. The riding has stayed in Liberal hands despite majority Conservative governments (federally in 1988 and provincially in 1995 and 1999) and has not elected a Conservative MP or MPP since the late 1980s. When the Conservatives won a minority government in the 2006 federal election they only made small inroads in Ottawa South at the same time the Liberals were only able to hang on to two seats in Ottawa. For the NDP, this riding is...
less
