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 Cambridge (Ontario)

Today we're in Cambridge!

Cambridge has existed as a riding since 1976, created from Waterloo-Cambridge. The riding contains Cambridge (129,920 in 2016), North Dumfries (10,215 in 2016), and part of Brant County (shared with Brantford-Brant). The riding is a commuter town of Kitchener-Waterloo, being only 22 km from Kitchener.

Politically, the riding is a notable bellwether since its creation, only voting against the winner nationally in 1980 and 2004, and even then the race was close in those two elections. My favourite part of the bellwether is that since 2006, it has voted in order of opposition parties (ie 2011 it went Conservative, NDP, Liberal, Green). The riding is currently represented by Liberal MP Bryan May.

The three parties that won seats in Ontario in 2019 each won quite a bit of the polling divisions in Cambridge city, just from eye-balling, it looks like 60/20/20 for the Liberals/NDP/Conservatives. The results in the riding are actually fairly similar to the provincial results in 2019, with the NDP and Greens outperforming the province by a couple points each. In 2019, the riding was 31/121 in Ontario and 91/338 in Canada by margin.

Rating:

Name: 8.9/10 - It's a perfect name, but it doesn't include North Dumfries, I know it's nitpicky, but I don't care.

Shape: 8.4/10 - It is very good, but I'm not the biggest fan of the eastern box that juts out.

Individuality: 7.8/10 - I love a good bellwether and the rest of the seats going in opposition order helps too. But it is also fairly southwestern Ontario.

Total: 25.1/30 (83.7%)

Tomorrow we're in our first Nova Scotia riding, Cape Breton-Canso!