Kitchener was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It existed from 1967 to 1999, when it was abolished when ridings were redistributed to match their federal counterpart. It consisted of the city of Kitchener, Ontario.
History Liberal Jim Breithaupt was the longest serving former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Kitchener since Canadian Confederation in 1867. Liberal David R. Cooke held the seat for two terms between 1985 and 1990. Will Ferguson took the seat in Bob Rae's New Democratic Party landslide election in 1990. Ferguson resigned midterm and Progressive Conservative Wayne Wettlaufer won the 1994 by-election and held the seat until 1999 when the seat was redistributed into Kitchener Centre and Kitchener—Waterloo. Wettlaufer lost his seat in the provincial election of 2003.
Members
Election results
1981 +1981 Ontario general electionCandidatesPartyVotesJim BreithauptLiberal12,592Morley RosenbergPC7,982Ian MacFarlaneNDP4,126
1985 +1985 Ontario general electionCandidatesPartyVotesDavid CookeLiberal14,066Don TraversPC9,684Tim LittleNDP5,654Ed HalbachIndependent Humanist453Albert NorrisIndependent157
1990 +1990 Ontario general electionCandidatesPartyVotes%Will FergusonNDP15,75046.8%David CookeLiberal9,73128.9%Ian MatthewPC6,15718.3%John MeenanFCP2,0026.0%
1995 +1995 Ontario general electionCandidatesPartyVotesWayne WettlauferPC13,374Bryan StortzLiberal9,992Sandi EllisNDP6,998Lou ReitzelFCP2,111Bob OberholtzerIndependent612Frank KerekIndependent223
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