Essex (provincial electoral district)

Essex
Ontario electoral district
	Essex in relation to other southern Ontario electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Anthony Leardi; Progressive Conservative
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District created	1999
First contested	1999
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2016)	125,440
Electors (2018)	97,773
Area (km²)	2,272
Pop. density (per km²)	55.2
Census division	Essex County
Census subdivision(s)	Amherstburg, Essex, Kingsville, Lakeshore, LaSalle

Essex is a provincial electoral district in southwestern, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It existed from 1867 to 1874 and was re-created in 1999 from Essex South, Essex—Kent and Windsor—Sandwich.

District created1999

First contested1999

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When the riding was recreated, it included all of Essex County except for Windsor, Old Tecumseh, St. Clair Beach, Leamington and Mersea Township.

In 2007, it lost the parts of Tecumseh that had since been amalgamated (South Sandwich Township).

Essex
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1871		Solomon Wigle	Conservative
2nd	1871–1874		Albert Prince	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Essex North and Essex South
Riding re-created from Essex South, Essex—Kent and Windsor—Sandwich
37th	1999–2003		Bruce Crozier	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014		Taras Natyshak	New Democratic
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022
43rd	2022–2025		Anthony Leardi	Progressive Conservative
44th	2025–present		Anthony Leardi	Progressive Conservative

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Anthony Leardi	30,785	55.60	+4.50	$65,811
	New Democratic	Rachael Mills	12,047	21.76	–6.52	$36,286
	Liberal	Tamara Stomp	8,707	15.73	+7.15	$16,622
	Green	Steve Higgins	1,282	2.32	+0.28	$3,467
	Ontario Party	Travis Jacques	1,131	2.04	–4.77	$1,975
	New Blue	Brigitte Belton	882	1.59	–1.06	$0
	None of the Above	Kevin Linfield	469	0.85	+0.19	$0
	Independent	William Szabo Verzoc	204	0.37	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,366	99.33	-0.17	$169,676
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			376	0.67	+0.17
Turnout			55,742	51.10	+3.83
Eligible voters			109,089
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.50
Source: Elections Ontario^[1]

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Anthony Leardi	24,926	51.10	+8.12	$56,154
	New Democratic	Ron Leclair	13,793	28.28	−19.67	$99,831
	Liberal	Manpreet Brar	4,186	8.58	+3.03	$44,182
	Ontario Party	Frank Causarano	3,322	6.81		$0
	New Blue	Danielle Sylvester	1,293	2.65		$8,086
	Green	Nicholas Wendler	989	2.03	−1.50	$0
	None of the Above	Kevin Linfield	271	0.56		$283
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,780	99.50	+0.16	$145,387
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			245	0.50	-0.16
Turnout			49,025	47.21	-8.91
Eligible voters			101,723
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+13.90
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 18, 2023. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 21, 2023.

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Taras Natyshak	26,134	47.95	-12.36
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Lewis	23,423	42.98	+21.20
	Liberal	Kate Festeryga	3,026	5.55	-8.78
	Green	Nancy Pancheshan	1,920	3.52	-0.06
Total valid votes			54,503	99.34
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			363	0.66
Turnout			54,866	56.12
Eligible voters			97,773
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-16.78
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

2014 general election redistributed results^[3]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	26,807	60.31
	Progressive Conservative	9,677	21.77
	Liberal	6,369	14.33
	Green	1,593	3.58

Member of Provincial Parliament

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	27,130	67
	Mixed member proportional	13,384	33
	Total valid votes	40,514	100.0