Mississauga South

This Greater Toronto Area riding lies within the city of Mississauga and includes some of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, such as Lorne Park, Lakeview, Port Credit and Clarkson.

The riding stretches south from Dundas Street West and the Queensway to the shoreline of Lake Ontario. In the west, its borders start at Winston Churchill Boulevard and the Mississauga city limits. In the east, it ends at Etobicoke Creek.

According to the 2006 census, the immigrant population was 36 per cent. Manufacturing, retail trade and service sectors are major employers. Average family income is $118,863 and unemployment is 5.9 per cent.

Mississauga South was created in 1976 and formerly known as Mississauga riding. In 1996, it expanded its boundary in the northeast. In 2004, neighbourhoods north of the Queen Elizabeth Way were added.

Population: 110,932 (2006 census; a decrease of 1.8% since 2001)

Political History

The 2006 election was a rematch of the 2004 battle between Liberal Paul Szabo and Conservative Phil Green. Szabo won his fourth term in office when he beat Green by 2,130 votes.

In 2004, Szabo defeated Green by 8,601 votes.

Progressive Conservative Don Blenkarn was elected in the old Peel South riding in 1972, defeated in Mississauga in 1974 and re-elected in Mississauga South in 1979. Blenkarn defeated Szabo in 1980 and 1984 and another Liberal, Gil Gillespie, in 1988. But Szabo won in 1993, when a Reform candidate, John Veenstra, ran, splitting the old Tory vote and leaving Blenkarn in third place.

• 1979-88 inclusive - PC
• 1993-2006 inclusive - LIB