Ottawa South (provincial electoral district)

Ottawa South
Ontario electoral district
	Ottawa South in relation to other Ottawa electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	John Fraser; Liberal
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District created	1925
First contested	1926
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2016)	121,055
Electors (2018)	93,167
Area (km²)	73
Pop. density (per km²)	1,658.3
Census division	Ottawa
Census subdivision	Ottawa

LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP

John Fraser
Liberal

District created1925

First contested1926

Ottawa South (French: Ottawa-Sud) is a provincial electoral district (riding) in Ontario, Canada, in the city of Ottawa.

Ottawa South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Ottawa West
17th	1926–1929		Thomas Birkett	Progressive Conservative
18th	1929–1934		Arthur Ellis
19th	1934–1937		Arthur Ellis
20th	1937–1943		George Dunbar
21st	1943–1945
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963		Irwin Haskett
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		Claude Bennett
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990		Dalton McGuinty Sr.	Liberal
35th	1990–1995		Dalton McGuinty
36th	1995–1999
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2013
40th	2013–2014		John Fraser
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022
43rd	2022–present

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Fraser	22,326	53.24	+8.10	$81,211
	Progressive Conservative	Jan Gao	10,315	24.60	+1.41	$53,126
	New Democratic	Morgan Gay	7,447	17.76	–5.99	$37,294
	Green	Nira Dookeran	1,206	2.88	–1.77	$5,883
	New Blue	Alex Perrier	638	1.52	–0.15	$440
Total valid votes/expense limit			41,932	99.39	+0.07	$192,174
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			260	0.61	–0.07
Turnout			42,192	42.73	+0.25
Eligible voters			98,750
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.35
Source: Elections Ontario^[1]

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Fraser	18,282	45.14	+5.51	$62,564
	New Democratic	Morgan Gay	9,619	23.75	−3.44	$41,459
	Progressive Conservative	Edward Dinca	9,390	23.19	−6.04	$18,192
	Green	Nira Dookeran	1,885	4.65	+1.57	$381
	New Blue	Martin Ince	675	1.67		$0
	Ontario Party	Myles Dear	386	0.95		$0
	Independent	Daniel Thomas	154	0.38		$0
	Communist	Larry Wasslen	109	0.27	+0.05	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,500	99.32	+0.47	$134,387
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			279	0.68	-0.47
Turnout			40,779	42.48	-14.44
Eligible voters			95,361
	Liberal hold		Swing		+4.47
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.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Fraser	20,773	39.63	−10.40
	Progressive Conservative	Karin Howard	15,319	29.23	-2.63
	New Democratic	Eleanor Fast	14,250	27.19	+14.82
	Green	Les Schram	1,618	3.09	−1.26
	Libertarian	Robert Daigneault	342	0.65	+0.07
	Communist	Larry Wasslen	114	0.22	−0.08
Total valid votes			52,616	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

v t e 2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Fraser	23,708	49.96	+7.70
	Progressive Conservative	Matt Young	15,235	32.11	−6.84
	New Democratic	Bronwyn Funiciello	5,817	12.26	−1.93
	Green	Matt Lakatos-Hayward	2,034	4.29	+1.23
	Libertarian	Jean-Serge Brisson	273	0.58	−0.01
	Special Needs	John Redins	244	0.51	+0.22
	Communist	Espoir Manirambona	139	0.29
Total valid votes			47,450	100.0
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			432	0.91
Turnout			47,882	53.71
Eligible voters			89,150
	Liberal hold		Swing		+7.27
Source(s) "General Election Results by District, 064 Ottawa South". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2014.

Ottawa South (provincial electoral district)

Members of the Provincial Parliament

Election results

2025

2022

2018

2014

2013 by-election

Opinion polls

Results

1926–2011 elections

2007 electoral reform referendum

Riding associations

See also

References

Related Articles

Polling Firm	Date of Polling	Link	Liberal	PC	NDP	Green	Other	Type of poll	Margin of error
Forum Research	July 31	PDF	36	52	9	3	0	IVR	4%
Campaign Research	July 30	PDF^{[permanent dead link]}	35	42	12	6	5	IVR	4.5%
Forum Research	July 24	HTML	34	48	12	5	1	IVR	4%
Campaign Research	July 15	PDF^{[permanent dead link]}	37	38	17	5	2	IVR	5.1%
Forum Research	July 3	HTML	42	38	17	4	3	IVR	5%
Forum Research	June 13	HTML	34	37	22	4	2	IVR	4%

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	30,718	65.84
	Mixed Member Proportional	15,941	34.16
Total valid votes		46,659	100.0
Source "Referendum Statistical Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2012.

Party		Association Name	President	HQ Address	Neighbourhood
	Green	Green Party of Ontario Ottawa South	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario	Ottawa South Progressive Conservative Association	Alan Wilde	10 The Masters Drive, Ottawa, ON.	Uplands
	Ontario Liberal Party	Ottawa South Provincial Liberal Association	Carolyn Kropp	Unknown	Unknown
	Ontario New Democratic Party	Ontario New Democrat Party Ottawa South	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

v t e Provincial ridings in Ontario
Northern	Algoma—Manitoulin Kenora—Rainy River Kiiwetinoong Mushkegowuk—James Bay Nickel Belt Nipissing Parry Sound—Muskoka Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay—Atikokan Thunder Bay—Superior North Timiskaming—Cochrane Timmins
Eastern	Bay of Quinte Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Hastings—Lennox and Addington Kingston and the Islands Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry
Central	Barrie—Innisfil Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound Dufferin—Caledon Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Northumberland—Peterborough South Peterborough—Kawartha Simcoe—Grey Simcoe North York—Simcoe
Midwestern	Brantford—Brant Cambridge Guelph Haldimand—Norfolk Huron—Bruce Kitchener Centre Kitchener—Conestoga Kitchener South—Hespeler Oxford Perth—Wellington Waterloo Wellington—Halton Hills
Southwestern	Chatham-Kent—Leamington Elgin—Middlesex—London Essex Lambton—Kent—Middlesex London—Fanshawe London North Centre London West Sarnia—Lambton Windsor—Tecumseh Windsor West
Peel	Brampton Centre Brampton East Brampton North Brampton South Brampton West Mississauga Centre Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erin Mills Mississauga—Lakeshore Mississauga—Malton Mississauga—Streetsville
Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara	Burlington Flamborough—Glanbrook Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas Milton Niagara Centre Niagara Falls Niagara West Oakville North—Burlington Oakville St. Catharines
Ottawa	Carleton Kanata—Carleton Nepean Orléans Ottawa Centre Ottawa South Ottawa—Vanier Ottawa West—Nepean
Durham and York	Ajax Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill Durham King—Vaughan Markham—Stouffville Markham—Thornhill Markham—Unionville Newmarket—Aurora Oshawa Pickering—Uxbridge Richmond Hill Thornhill Vaughan—Woodbridge Whitby
Toronto	Beaches—East York Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley North Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North Humber River—Black Creek Parkdale—High Park Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough North Scarborough—Rouge Park Scarborough Southwest Spadina—Fort York Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Toronto—St. Paul's University—Rosedale Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston
See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario

v t e 2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dalton McGuinty	24,015	50.13	−1.30ᴿ	$ 68,501.89
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Raymond	14,206	29.66	−4.24ᴿ	80,475.86
	New Democratic	Edelweiss D'Andrea	4,467	9.33	+0.26ᴿ	19,220.39
	Green	John Ford	3,902	8.15	+4.49	2,069.63
	Family Coalition	David MacDonald	927	1.94	+0.76	2,294.17
	Libertarian	Jean-Serge Brisson	384	0.80		118.38
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,901	100.0	+1.28	$ 92,129.40
Total rejected ballots			380	0.79	+0.17
Turnout			48,281	56.60	−2.17
Eligible voters			85,305		+4.52
	Liberal hold		Swing		1.47ᴿ
ᴿ Change based in redistributed results.
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate – October 10, 2007 General Election" (PDF). "Statistical Summary – General Elections 2007" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 30, 2014. "2007 Candidate Campaign Returns - CR-1".

v t e 2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dalton McGuinty	24,647	51.70	+2.11	$ 70,963.18
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Raymond	16,413	34.43	−7.80	75,453.48
	New Democratic	James McLaren	4,306	9.03	+3.23	12,014.97
	Green	David Chernushenko	1,741	3.65	+2.07	2,884.13
	Family Coalition	John Pacheco	562	1.18		9,388.75
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,669	100.0	+4.11	$ 78,349.44
Total rejected ballots			296	0.62	−0.16
Turnout			47,965	58.77	+1.03
Eligible voters			81,614		+2.12
	Liberal hold		Swing		+4.96
Source(s) "General Election of October 2, 2003 – Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. "General Election of October 2, 2003 – Statistical Summary". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 30, 2014. "2003 Candidate and Constituency Associations – Candidate Campaign Return (CR-1)".

v t e 1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dalton McGuinty	22,707	49.59	−3.76	$ 62,090.51
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Nicholson	19,337	42.23	+12.41	20,397.04
	New Democratic	James McLaren	2,655	5.80	−8.86	14,683.16
	Green	George Brown	724	1.58	+0.26	0.00
	Independent	Meg Carson	243	0.53		8.09
	Natural Law	James Hea	121	0.26	−0.58	0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,787	100.0	+58.44	$ 76,725.12
Total rejected ballots			360	0.78	−0.01
Turnout			46,147	57.74	−8.77
Eligible voters			79,922		+82.50
	Liberal hold		Swing		−8.09
Note: Boundaries significantly adjusted. Percentage change not adjusted to reflected redistribution.
Source(s) "General Election of June 3 1999 – Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. "General Election of June 3 1999 – Statistical Summary". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 30, 2014. "1999 Candidate and Constituency Association – Candidate Campaign Return (CR-1)".

v t e 1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dalton McGuinty	15,418	53.35	+7.48	$ 38,581.00
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Thom	8,618	29.82	+5.31	28,456.94
	New Democratic	Margaret Armstrong	4,235	14.65	−11.27	16,082.17
	Green	Karen Fyson	383	1.33	−0.70	0.00
	Natural Law	Wayne Foster	245	0.85		0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			28,899	100.0	−4.26	$ 44,698.00
Total rejected ballots			229	0.79
Turnout			29,128	66.51
Eligible voters			43,793
Source(s) "General Election of June 8 1995 – Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 30, 2014. "General Election of June 8 1995 – Statistical Summary". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 30, 2014. "Candidate and Association Combined Statement of Campaign Period Income and Expenses – 1995" ( Word'95 .doc (3.16MB)). Retrieved May 30, 2014.