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Oakville

2008 Results

Oakville
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST		238/238 polls
CON	Terence Young	26,011	47.07	Elected
LIB	M.A. Brown	20,428	36.97
GRN	Blake Poland	4,681	8.47
NDP	Michelle Bilek	4,143	7.50

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This affluent southern Ontario riding is on the shores of Lake Ontario, about 40 kilometres west of Toronto.

It contains part of the town of Oakville, stretching from Lake Ontario to Upper Middle Road West, Eighth Line and Dundas Street East, between Winston Churchill Boulevard in the east and Burloak Drive to the west.

The riding has a high percentage of administrative-managerial jobs as well as a strong manufacturing sector. The 2006 census shows an average family income of $147,905, the fourth-highest in Canada, and an unemployment rate of 5.3 per cent. More than 41 per cent of residents over age 25 have have a university certificate or degree.

The riding of Oakville-Milton was created in 1986 from most of Halton riding. It became Oakville riding in the 1996 redistribution. In 2004, a small portion of Halton riding was added in the northeast.

Population: 113,714 (2006 census; an increase of 3.7% since 2001)

Political History

Liberal Bonnie Brown beat Conservative Terence Young in the 2006 election with a margin of 744 votes. Brown is serving her fifth term as an MP and her fourth in this riding.

In 2004, Brown defeated Conservative Rick Byers by 9,205 votes. Byers had been elected in Oakville-Milton. This riding and its predecessor, Halton riding, have traditionally swung between supporting Tories and Liberals.

From 1979 to 1983, the MP for Halton was Conservative Otto Jelinek, who was minister of state for fitness and amateur sport, minister of state for multiculturalism and minister of supply and services.

Halton:

1891-1930 - CON
1935-49 - LIB
1953, 1957, 1958 - PC
1962, 1963, 1965, 1968 - LIB
1972 - PC
1974 - LIB
1979, 1980, 1984 - PC

Oakville-Milton:

1988 - PC
1993 - LIB

Oakville:

1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 - LIB

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
CON	143	0	143	37.63
LIB	77	0	77	26.24
BQ	49	0	49	9.97
NDP	37	0	37	18.20
IND	2	0	2	0.65
GRN	0	0	0	6.80
OTH	0	0	0	0.51

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