Do you know where you're voting?: Boundaries for three local federal ridings have changed

Apr 7

By: Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Peterborough Examiner

The 2025 federal general election will see changes to three electoral districts around the City and County of Peterborough.

If your federal riding in the 2021 election was Peterborough—Kawartha, Northumberland—Peterborough South, or Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, you might be voting in a new riding, with new boundaries and different incumbents and candidates.

Under the Canadian Constitution, federal electoral districts need to be reviewed after each 10-year census in order to ensure the boundaries reflect changes in the Canadian population.

As a result of the most recent redistribution which followed from the 2021 federal general election, there will now be 343 electoral ridings, up from 338 in 2021. These five new seats are located in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia.

How have these local ridings changed?

To begin, the former federal riding of Peterborough—Kawartha is now known simply as Peterborough. Its boundaries have changed to include parts of the former riding of Northumberland—Peterborough South which is now Northumberland—Clarke.

Northumberland—Clarke, which includes the communities of Cobourg, Port Hope, Brighton, and Trent Hills, as well as Alderville First Nation and Alnwick/Haldimand, Cramahe and Hamilton remains the same as in 2021 aside from the communities now included in the riding of Peterborough.

In the 2022 redistribution decision, Peterborough gained Otonabee—South Monaghan as well as Asphodel—Norwood and Hiawatha First Nation, but lost the communities of Trent Lakes and North Kawartha to the newly renamed and reshaped riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes, formerly Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock.

Voters who are unsure of which riding they should be voting in following the boundary changes due to redistribution can check online the Elections Canada website by entering their postal code.

Who is running in each riding?

The final list of candidates will be available on Elections Canada’s website on April 9.

Northumberland—Clarke:

Conservative – Philip Lawrence (Incumbent)

Independent – Jody Ledgerwood

Liberal — John Goheen

NDP – Ava Becker

People’s Party – Lisa Bradburn

Where and when can I vote?

Early voting is currently available at any Elections Canada office across the country.

The Elections Canada Offices are currently open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday, Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon-4 p.m.

Early voting is done by special ballot and is available for all electors and especially those who will not be able to get to their assigned voting station on election day (April 28) or on advance polling days.

Advance polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 18, Saturday, April 19, Sunday, April 20 and Monday, April 21.

The following is a list of Elections Canada offices in the riding of Northumberland—Clarke,

Northumberland—Clarke:

Elections Canada

609 William St., Suite 8

Cobourg, ON K9A 3A5

Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a veteran radio and web journalist with 18 years in the news business. He has reported on Indigenous issues in Northern and Western Canada. This former News Director has covered provincial legislative politics in the Yukon and Saskatchewan.

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