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Riding Profile:

This riding, which stretches from the north shore of Lake Ontario to Lake Scugog in the north. All of it lies within the municipality of Durham, and the riding encompasses some 25 communities including Bowmanville and Courtice. To the west it takes in a corner of Oshawa, and to the south the town of Clarington, with the township of Scugog and the Scugog Indian reservation in the north.

Manufacturing is the major employer, with only a small portion of labour force engaged in the production of dairy products and the farming of soybeans and corn.

After the 1999 redistribution, the new Durham riding took in almost almost 90 per cent of the old Durham-East and nearly 25 per cent of the Oshawa riding.

Political History:

In the old Durham-East, PC candidate Sam Cureatz defeated NDP incumbent Doug Moffat in the 1977 election by just 122 votes. Cureatz was re-elected through to 1990, when the seat returned to the NDP. The riding went Conservative again in 1995 by a decisive 15,784-vote margin.