Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte (Ontario) 15/338

Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte (Ontario)

Today we're not too far from yesterday with Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte.

Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte was created in the 2012 electoral redistribution, gaining territory from Barrie, Simcoe—Grey, and Simcoe North. The municipalities are Barrie (141,434 in 2016), Oro-Medonte (21,036 in 2016) and Springwater (19,059 in 2016). All three municipalities are shared with neighbouring ridings.

Politically, the riding has been close, torn between the rural nature of Oro-Medonte and Springwater and the urban Barrie. The riding was the 2nd closest in 2015, only having a 86 vote difference after a judicial recount. However, both the Conservatives and Liberals lost ground in 2019. The riding is currently represented by Conservative MP Doug Shipley.

The swing in 2015 was pretty uniform with the rest of Central Ontario, +25 for the Liberals. One thing of note in 2019 is that this riding had one of the bigger swings for the Green party, +8 points, finishing less than 1000 votes behind the NDP. In 2019, the riding was 25/121 in Ontario and 75/338 in Canada in terms of margin.

Rating:

Name: 6.9/10 - While it is only one more name than the previous one, it just feels worse this time. I would be okay with Barrie North/Barrie South, but I'm not the one that makes the names, I just complain about them.

Shape: 7.1/10 - From a distance, it looks fine, but the closer you go you start to see the blemishes. The northwest corner is gross, the juts in and out on the north and east.

Individuality: 5.1/10 - I do find it interesting how close it was in 2015, but other than that, it's the Central Ontario story.

Total: 19.1/30 (63.6%)

See you tomorrow in Battle River-Crowfoot!