Thunder Bay—Rainy River

Thunder Bay—Rainy River

Ontario electoral district
Thunder Bay—Rainy River in relation to the other area ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Don Rusnak Liberal
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	82,984
Electors (2015)	62,207
Area (km²)	39,545
Pop. density (per km²)	2.1
Census divisions	Thunder Bay District, Rainy River District
Census subdivisions	Thunder Bay, Fort Frances, Oliver Paipoonge, Atikokan, Neebing

Thunder Bay—Rainy River is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It first elected a member in the 2004 federal election.

History

It was created in 2003 from parts of Kenora—Rainy River and Thunder Bay—Atikokan ridings.

This riding gained a fraction of territory from Thunder Bay—Superior North during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Geography

It consists of the Territorial District of Rainy River, and the part of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay lying south and west of a line drawn from the western limit of the territorial district east along the 6th Base Line, south along longitude 90o00( W, Dog River and the western shoreline of Dog Lake, west along the northern boundary of the Township of Fowler, south along its western boundary, and east along its southern boundary, south along the Kaministiquia River, east along the northern limit of the Township of Oliver Paipoonge, south along its eastern limit and along Pole Line Road, north along Thunder Bay Expressway (Highways 11 and 17), east along Harbour Expressway and Main Street to 110th Avenue, and due east to the eastern limit of the City of Thunder Bay, along that limit to the northeast corner of the Township of Neebing, and southeast to the US border.

Member of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Member of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Thunder Bay—Rainy River Riding created from Kenora—Rainy River and Thunder Bay—Atikokan
38th	2004–2006		Ken Boshcoff	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011		John Rafferty	New Democratic
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present		Don Rusnak	Liberal

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Don Rusnak	18,523	44.1	+22.4	–
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	12,439	29.6	-19.1	–
	Conservative	Moe Comuzzi	8,876	21.1	-6.1	–
	Green	Christy Radbourne	2,201	5.2	+2.8	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			–	100.0		$233,030.77
Total rejected ballots			–	–	–
Turnout			42,039	67.6	+7.5
Eligible voters			62,207
Source: Elections Canada

2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	18,126	48.65
	Conservative	10,138	27.21
	Liberal	8,085	21.70
	Green	911	2.44
	Others	1	0.00

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	18,085	48.7	+8.4	–
	Conservative	Maureen Comuzzi-Stehmann	10,097	27.2	+3.6	–
	Liberal	Ken Boshcoff	8,067	21.7	-10.6	–
	Green	Ed Shields	909	2.4	-1.4	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,158	100.0
Total rejected ballots			130	0.3	–
Turnout			37,288	60.1	–
Eligible voters			62,018	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	14,478	40.3	+6.9	$80,937
	Liberal	Ken Boshcoff	11,589	32.3	-2.8	$63,482
	Conservative	Richard Neumann	8,466	23.6	-3.6	$44,136
	Green	Russ Aegard	1,377	3.8	+0.7	$1,292
Total valid votes/Expense limit			35,910	100.0	$93,852

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ken Boshcoff	13,525	35.1	-4.3
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	12,862	33.4	+3.7
	Conservative	David Leskowski	10,485	27.2	+0.9
	Green	Russ Aegard	1,189	3.1	+0.7
	Marijuana	Doug MacKay	424	1.1	-0.4
Total valid votes			38,485	100.0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ken Boshcoff	14,290	39.4
	New Democratic	John Rafferty	10,781	29.7
	Conservative	David Leskowski	9,559	26.3
	Green	Russ Aegard	856	2.4
	Marijuana	Doug Thompson	547	1.5
	Christian Heritage	Johannes Scheibler	267	0.7
Total valid votes			36,300	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada