2023 Hamilton Centre Provincial By-Election

2023 Hamilton Centre provincial by-election
Riding of Hamilton Centre
Turnout	21.97%
MPP before election; Andrea Horwath; New Democratic	Elected MPP ; Sarah Jama; New Democratic

The election was triggered by the resignation of Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) MPP Andrea Horwath. ONDP candidate Sarah Jama won the election, retaining the seat for the party.

Background

Constituency profile

The Hamilton Centre constituency consists of the part of the City of Hamilton bounded by a line drawn south from the city limit along Ottawa Street, west along the Niagara Escarpment, southwest along James Mountain Road, south along West 5th Street, west along Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, north along the hydroelectric transmission line situated west of Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour.^{[citation needed]}

Trigger and campaign

On July 26, 2022, incumbent MPP Andrea Horwath announced her candidacy for mayor of Hamilton, and resigned her seat in the provincial legislature on August 15, 2022. The ONDP was considered favoured to retain the seat in the days leading up to the March 2023 election.

Candidates

Peter House, Electoral Reform Party
Lucia Iannantuono, Green Party of Ontario
Sarah Jama, Ontario New Democratic Party
Matthew Lingard, Independent
Pete Wiesner, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Deirdre Pike, Ontario Liberal Party
Mark Snow, Ontario Libertarian Party
John Turmel, Independent
Lee Weiss Vassor, New Blue Party of Ontario
Nathalie Xian Yi Yan, Independent

Result

Ontario provincial by-election, Hamilton Centre Resignation of Andrea Horwath
Preliminary results — Not yet official
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Sarah Jama	9,560	54.28	-2.98
	Liberal	Deirdre Pike	3,535	20.07	+7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Pete Wiesner	2,733	15.52	-0.95
	Green	Lucia Iannantuono	1,220	6.93	-1.84
	New Blue	Lee Weiss Vassor	148	0.84	-0.82
	Electoral Reform	Peter House	121	0.69
	Libertarian	Mark Snow	105	0.60
	Independent	Matthew Lingard	102	0.58
	Independent	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	51	0.29	-0.21
	Independent	John Turmel	37	0.21
Total valid votes			17,612	—
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots				—
Turnout				21.97
Eligible voters			80,172
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-5.01
Source: Elections Ontario

Previous result

v t e 2022 Ontario general election: Hamilton Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	16,690	57.26	-7.99
	Progressive Conservative	Sarah Bokhari	4,800	16.47	+0.80
	Liberal	Ekaterini Dimakis	3,799	13.03	+2.15
	Green	Sandy Crawley	2,554	8.76	+3.02
	New Blue	John Chroust	483	1.66
	Ontario Party	Brad Peace	451	1.55
	Communist	Nigel Cheriyan	225	0.77	+0.41
	Independent	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	145	0.50
Total valid votes			29,147	99.01	+0.19
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			291	0.99	-0.19
Turnout			29,438	37.94	-10.97
Eligible voters			77,599
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-4.40
Source: Elections Ontario

References

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