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Orléans (electoral district)

Orléans
Ontario electoral district
Ottawa-ottawaorleans.PNG
Ottawa—Orléans in relation to other electoral districts in Ottawa (2003 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
MP
 
 
 
Andrew Leslie
Liberal
District created 1987
First contested 1988
Last contested 2015
District webpage profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011) 119,247
Electors (2015) 94,830
Area (km²) 211
Pop. density (per km²) 565.2
Census divisions Ottawa
Census subdivisions Ottawa

Coordinates: 45°28′N 75°30′W / 45.467°N 75.500°W / 45.467; -75.500

Orléans (formerly Ottawa—Orléans, Gloucester—Carleton and Carleton—Gloucester) is a federal electoral district in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.

The riding was created as "Carleton—Gloucester" in 1987. Its name was changed to "Gloucester—Carleton" in 1996, but then changed back to "Carleton–Gloucester" in 1997. It was changed again in 2000 to "Ottawa—Orléans" and to just "Orléans" in 2013.

Despite having an English-speaking majority, Orléans is among the most francophone of the Ontario federal ridings, and a major centre of the Franco-Ontarian community. According to the 2001 Statistics Canada report, 35% of the riding population speaks French as their mother tongue. In recent years, the riding has experienced a major growth of population and increased housing projects.

In the 2004 federal election, the Liberal candidate Marc Godbout won over the Conservative candidate Walter Robinson by over 4% of the votes. Robinson, a former president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, was considered a favourite but failed to win support among Francophones. Ottawa—Orléans was also the riding where the NDP had Canada's youngest woman candidate, Crystal LeBlanc, who received 5905 votes in the 2004 federal election.


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