DURHAM RIDING

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    • The electoral district of Durham (Ontario) has a population of 107,435 with 79,911 registered voters and 189 polling divisions.

      This riding at the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area takes in Uxbridge and Scugog townships and the regional municipality of Clarington. The riding includes the communities of Uxbridge, Port Perry, Orono, Bowmanville and Courtice.

      The Indian reserve of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island is part of the riding, which extends from Lake Ontario in the south to Lake Scugog in the north, north of the ridings of Ajax-Pickering and Whitby-Oshawa.

      Manufacturing is the major employer, with a small portion of the labour force engaged in the production of dairy products and the farming of soybeans and corn.

      The average household income is $78,234 and the unemployment rate is 4.9 per cent.

      Clarington-Scugog-Uxbridge riding was created in 2004 from 84 per cent of Durham riding and 16 per cent of Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge riding. Part of the city of Oshawa moved into the Whitby-Oshawa riding and the western boundary moved west to the York-Durham line. The riding of Durham was established in 1903 and in 1966 merged with parts of Oshawa and Ontario ridings to become Durham-Northumberland. It became Durham again in 1986.

      Population: 107,435

      Political History

      In 2006 incumbent Bev Oda held on to the riding defeating former Scugog Mayor Doug Moffatt. She originally won the riding by defeating Liberal Tim Lang by 1,275 votes in 2004.

      Durham elected PC Ross Stevenson in 1988. He was knocked to third place by Liberal Alex Shepherd in 1993. Shepherd was re-elected in 1997 and 2000.

      1993, 1997, 2000 - LIB 2004, 2006 - CON

      ELECTION RESULTS
      January 23, 2006

    • Virginia Ervin Green 2,676
    • Doug Moffatt Liberal 17,290
    • Bev Oda Conservative 27,087
    • Bruce Rogers NDP 9,946
    • Henry Zekveld Christian Heritage 612

    ELECTION RESULTS
    June 28, 2004

  • Durk Bruinsma Christian Heritage 915
  • Virginia Ervin Green 2,085
  • Tim Lang Liberal 19,548
  • Bev Oda Conservative 20,813
  • Bruce Rogers NDP 7,721
  • Total number of validated votes: 51,082

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February 27, 2010

It's a race in Ward 1

A third hopeful has tossed his head in the ring in Ward 1, the ward vacated by Adrian Foster, who is making a run at the mayor's chair.

Dennis Urbanski signed up to run in the local ward Friday. He joins two others on the ballot: Mark Stanisz and Steven Conway.

February 27, 2010 at 08:31 AM |

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