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Whitby - Oshawa

2008 Results

Whitby-Oshawa
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST		259/259 polls
CON	Jim Flaherty	30,604	50.93	Elected
LIB	Brent Fullard	15,470	25.74
NDP	David Purdy	8,539	14.21
GRN	Doug Anderson	5,087	8.46
CHP	Yvonne Forbes	395	0.66

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This Greater Toronto Area riding contains the town of Whitby and part of the city of Oshawa. The riding runs from Lake Ontario to the CP Rail tracks, between Lake Ridge Road in the east and King Street West, Oshawa Creek, Rossland Road West, Simcoe Street North, Winchester Road East and Townline Road North in the west.

Manufacturing, including the General Motors plant in Oshawa, is the main industry in the area. The 2006 census shows an average family income of $103,694 and an unemployment rate of 5.8 per cent.

The riding of Whitby-Oshawa was established in the 2004 redistribution from 68 per cent of Whitby-Ajax, 20 per cent of Oshawa and three per cent of Durham. The riding of Whitby-Ajax was formed in 1996 from Ontario riding and a small part of Durham riding.

Population: 135,893 (2006 census; an increase of 20.5% since 2001)

Political History

In 2006, Conservative Jim Flaherty beat Liberal incumbent Jodi Longfield by 3,412 votes and won his first term in this riding. Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Flaherty as minister of finance and minister responsible for the Greater Toronto Area.

In 2004, Longfield defeated Conservative Ian MacNeil to win a third term.

In a 1952 byelection, PC Mike Starr was first elected in Ontario riding, holding it until 1968 when he ran in Oshawa-Whitby. He was a minister of labour, House leader and interim leader under John Diefenbaker. Liberal Norm Cafik won in 1968, 1972 and 1974. He was defeated in 1979 by Scott Fennell of the PCs, who served three terms. In 1988, PC René Soetens was elected and in 1993, it was Liberal Dan McTeague. Soetens finished third behind a Reform candidate.

Ontario:

1925, 1926 - CON
1930-45 - LIB
1948 byelection - CCF
1949 - LIB
1952 byelection to 1965 inclusive - PC
1968, 1972, 1974 - LIB
1979-88 - PC
1993 - LIB

Whitby-Ajax:

1997, 2000 - LIB

Whitby-Oshawa:

2004 - LIB
2006 - CON

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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