Nipissing—Timiskaming
Federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada
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Nipissing—Timiskaming is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The riding was formed by the amalgamation of the former Nipissing riding with the southeastern portion of the former Timiskaming—Cochrane riding. This riding lost small portions of territory to Timmins-James Bay and gained a small portion from Nickel Belt during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
 Ontario electoral district | |||
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Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2003 | ||
| First contested | 2004 | ||
| Last contested | 2025 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011)[1] | 90,996 | ||
| Electors (2015) | 70,342 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 15,313 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 5.9 | ||
| Census division(s) | Nipissing District, Parry Sound District, Timiskaming District | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | North Bay, Temiskaming Shores, East Ferris, Callander, Powassan, Bonfield, Mattawa, Nipissing Township, Nipissing First Nation, Englehart | ||
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The 2011 electoral results in this riding were challenged in court on the grounds that there were "irregularities, fraud or corrupt or illegal practices that affected the result of the election".[3]
The seat's present federal MP is Pauline Rochefort, a member of the Liberal Party.
Demographics
According to the 2021 Canadian census[4]
Ethnic groups: 81.7% White, 14.9% Indigenous, 1.0% South Asian
Languages: 79.6% English, 13.8% French
Religions: 58.9% Christian (36.3% Catholic, 6.1% United Church, 4.0% Anglican, 1.1% Pentecostal, 1.0% Presbyterian, 10.4% Other), 39.2% None
Median income: $39,600 (2020)
Average income: $49,400 (2020)
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nipissing—Timiskaming Riding created from Nipissing and Timiskaming—Cochrane |
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| 38th | 2004–2006 | Anthony Rota | Liberal | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | Jay Aspin | Conservative | |
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Anthony Rota | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| 45th | 2025–present | Pauline Rochefort | ||
Election results
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Pauline Rochefort | 27,033 | 46.99 | +10.13 | ||||
| Conservative | Garry Keller | 25,774 | 44.80 | +12.92 | ||||
| New Democratic | Valerie Kennedy | 3,506 | 6.09 | –17.24 | ||||
| People's | John Janssen | 640 | 1.11 | –6.82 | ||||
| Green | Louise Poitras | 578 | 1.00 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 57,531 | 68.04 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 84,549 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | –1.40 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 19,007 | 36.86 | |
| Conservative | 16,438 | 31.88 | |
| New Democratic | 12,031 | 23.33 | |
| People's | 4,088 | 7.93 | |
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 18,405 | 38.8 | -1.8 | $97,413.97 | |||
| Conservative | Steven Trahan | 15,104 | 31.8 | +4.8 | $85,201.35 | |||
| New Democratic | Scott Robertson | 10,493 | 22.1 | +1.6 | $14,631.29 | |||
| People's | Gregory J. Galante | 3,494 | 7.4 | +2.2 | $16,450.54 | |||
| Total valid votes | 47,496 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 337 | |||||||
| Turnout | 47,833 | 63.20 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 75,689 | |||||||
| liberal hold | Swing | -3.3 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 19,352 | 40.55 | –11.33 | $105,794.62 | |||
| Conservative | Jordy Carr | 12,984 | 27.20 | –2.10 | $86,210.82 | |||
| New Democratic | Rob Boulet | 9,784 | 20.50 | +4.26 | $8,883.76 | |||
| Green | Alex Gomm | 3,111 | 6.52 | +3.95 | none listed | |||
| People's | Mark King | 2,496 | 5.23 | n/a | $24,007.08 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,727 | 99.15 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 407 | 0.85 | +0.39 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,134 | 64.13 | –4.17 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,052 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | –4.61 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 25,357 | 51.88 | +15.39 | $111,880.91 | |||
| Conservative | Jay Aspin | 14,325 | 29.31 | -7.10 | $88,713.85 | |||
| New Democratic | Kathleen Jodouin | 7,936 | 16.24 | -4.89 | $25,717.06 | |||
| Green | Nicole Peltier | 1,257 | 2.57 | -3.40 | $2,243.82 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 48,875 | 99.54 | $218,149.29 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 224 | 0.46 | ||||||
| Turnout | 49,099 | 68.31 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 71,879 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +11.24 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
Despite the fact that 99% of this riding stayed the same after the 2012 redistribution, based on the results of the 2011 election — in which Aspin defeated Rota by a margin of just 18 votes — the minor boundary changes were enough to make the seat a notional Liberal riding.[13] The riding lost two Conservative voting areas in the north (Hudson Township and Harris Township) while gaining the Nipissing 10 Indian Reserve,[14] where the Tories finished third.
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[13] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 15,405 | 36.49 | |
| Conservative | 15,369 | 36.41 | |
| New Democratic | 8,919 | 21.13 | |
| Green | 2,520 | 5.97 | |
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Jay Aspin | 15,495 | 36.7 | +4.4 | – | |||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 15,477 | 36.6 | -8.0 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Rona Eckert | 8,781 | 20.8 | +5.0 | – | |||
| Green | Scott Daley | 2,518 | 6.0 | -0.8 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 42,271 | 100.0 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 225 | 0.5 | +0.1 | |||||
| Turnout | 42,496 | 60.5 | +6.8 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 70,244 | – | – | |||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.2 | ||||||
Note: This vote was subject to mandatory recount because of the margin of win being less than 1/1000 of the total votes.
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 18,510 | 44.6 | –0.1 | $77,997 | |||
| Conservative | Joe Sinicrope | 13,432 | 32.3 | –2.2 | $81,801 | |||
| New Democratic | Dianna Allen | 6,582 | 15.8 | –1.5 | $8,409 | |||
| Green | Craig Bridges | 2,808 | 6.8 | +3.3 | $10,803 | |||
| Canadian Action | Andrew Moulden | 204 | 0.5 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,536 | 100.0 | $87,383 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 167 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 41,703 | ~58.2 | -9.4 | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.1 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 21,393 | 44.7 | +2.4 | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Chirico | 16,511 | 34.5 | –2.6 | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Fluri | 8,268 | 17.3 | +0.3 | ||||
| Green | Meg Purdy | 1,698 | 3.5 | +0.4 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 47,870 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 211 | 0.4 | -0.1 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,081 | 67.6 | +5.2 | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.5 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Anthony Rota | 18,254 | 42.3 | |||||
| Conservative | Al McDonald | 16,001 | 37.1 | |||||
| New Democratic | Dave Fluri | 7,354 | 17.0 | |||||
| Green | Les Wilcox | 1,329 | 3.1 | |||||
| Canadian Action | Ross MacLean | 204 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 43,142 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 222 | 0.5 | ||||||
| Turnout | 43,364 | 62.4 | ||||||