Sudbury

This urban riding in northern Ontario consists of part of Greater Sudbury. The former city of Sudbury and the former town of Walden fall within the riding.

Retail trade and health and social services are the major sources of jobs. Mining and manufacturing are also important to the economy, with companies such as Inco and Falconbridge Nickel based here. Average family income is $80,804 and the unemployment rate is 8.6 per cent.

According to the 2006 census, 21 per cent spoke French as their mother tongue. Fifty-seven per cent own their own homes. Twenty per cent of residents over age 25 have a university certificate or degree.

Sudbury riding was established in 1947. In the 1996 redistribution, eight per cent of Nickel Belt was added. In 2004, more of Nickel Belt was added in the southwest.

Population: 92,161 (2006 census; an increase of 3.0% since 2001)

Political History

This riding has been Liberal territory since 1968. Liberal Diane Marleau beat New Democrat Gerry McInaggart by 4,584 votes in the 2006 election and also defeated him in the 2004 vote.

Marleau was appointed minister of health in 1993, minister of public works and government services in 1996 and minister of international co-operation and minister responsible for the Francophonie from 1997 to 1999.

This riding has elected only one non-Liberal since 1949. It sent New Democrat Bud Germa to Ottawa in a 1967 byelection; he served for one year, losing to Liberal Jim Jerome in the 1968 general election.

Jerome, who became Speaker, was MP from 1968 to 1980. Doug Frith, a minister of Indian affairs and northern development, won in 1980 and 1984.

• 1949-65 inclusive - LIB
• 1967 - NDP
• Since 1968 - LIB