Kanata (electoral district)
Federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada
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Kanata is a new federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada.
 Ontario electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2025 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021)[1] | 121,458 | ||
| Area (km²) | 232.5 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 522.4 | ||
| Census division | Ottawa | ||
| Census subdivision | Ottawa (part) | ||
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Geography
Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding was formed largely from the more urban eastern portion of Kanata—Carleton.[1]
- Gains Bells Corners from Nepean; Gains Shirleys Bay area from Ottawa West—Nepean
- Gains area north of Hazeldean Road from Carleton.
- Loses all territory west of the 417 and north of Craig's Side Road / Murphy Side Road / Constance Lake Road / Berry Side Road, and south of Hazeldean Road and west of Terry Fox Drive to Carleton.
Demographics
According to the 2021 Canadian census[2]
Languages: 67.9% English, 8.3% French, 4.8% Mandarin, 2.9% Arabic, 1.6% Russian, 1.3% Spanish, 1.3% Cantonese
Religions: 50.0% Christian (25.9% Catholic, 4.9% Anglican, 4.0% United Church, 2.1% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Presbyterian, 11.9% Other), 34.8% No religion, 8.6% Muslim, 2.9% Hindu, 1.4% Buddhist
Median income: $54,000 (2020)
Average income: $64,300 (2020)
| Panethnic group | 2021 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | |||||||||||||
| European[a] | 77,780 | 64.88% | ||||||||||||
| East Asian[b] | 10,895 | 9.09% | ||||||||||||
| South Asian | 9,250 | 7.72% | ||||||||||||
| Middle Eastern[c] | 6,880 | 5.74% | ||||||||||||
| African | 5,220 | 4.35% | ||||||||||||
| Southeast Asian[d] | 4,000 | 3.34% | ||||||||||||
| Indigenous | 2,635 | 2.2% | ||||||||||||
| Latin American | 1,580 | 1.32% | ||||||||||||
| Other/multiracial[e] | 1,635 | 1.36% | ||||||||||||
| Total responses | 119,890 | 98.62% | ||||||||||||
| Total population | 121,565 | 100% | ||||||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
History
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kanata Riding created from Carleton, Kanata—Carleton, Nepean, and Ottawa West—Nepean |
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| 45th | 2025–present | Jenna Sudds | Liberal | |
Election results
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jenna Sudds | 45,244 | 60.8 | +17.56 | ||||
| Conservative | Greg Kung | 26,557 | 35.7 | –1.21 | ||||
| New Democratic | Melissa Simon | 1,702 | 2.3 | –12.38 | ||||
| Green | Jennifer Purdy | 835 | 1.1 | –1.37 | ||||
| Centrist | Moinuddin Siddiqui | 122 | 0.2 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 74,460 | 99.4 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 457 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Turnout | 74,917 | 78.7 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,142 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +9.39 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[3][4] | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 27,667 | 43.16 | |
| Conservative | 23,620 | 36.85 | |
| New Democratic | 9,419 | 14.69 | |
| People's | 1,771 | 2.76 | |
| Green | 1,626 | 2.54 | |
