Carleton (Ontario federal electoral district)

Carleton

Ontario electoral district
Carleton in relation to other electoral districts in Ottawa
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Pierre Poilievre Conservative
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	102,918
Electors (2015)	71,947
Area (km²)[1]	1,229
Pop. density (per km²)	83.7
Census division(s)	Ottawa
Census subdivision(s)	Ottawa

Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968 and since 2015. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1821 to 1840 and in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 until 1866. It has been represented by Pierre Poilievre, the current Leader of the Opposition, since its creation in 2015.

The original riding was created by the British North America Act of 1867. However, the riding had existed since 1821 in the Parliament of Upper Canada and the Parliament of the Province of Canada. It originally consisted of Carleton County. In 1966, it was redistributed into the new electoral districts of Grenville—Carleton, Lanark and Renfrew, Ottawa Centre, Ottawa West and Ottawa—Carleton.

This riding was re-created by the 2012 electoral redistribution from parts of Nepean—Carleton (59%), Carleton—Mississippi Mills (41%) and a small portion of Ottawa South. It was contested in the 2015 federal election.