Mississauga East—Cooksville (Ontario) 184/338

 Mississauga East—Cooksville (Ontario) 

Today we're in eastern Mississauga with Mississauga East—Cooksville!

Mississauga East—Cooksville has existed as the 2003 redistribution, created from Mississauga Centre and Mississauga East. The population of the riding was 116,346 in 2021. The riding is in the city of Mississauga and contains the neighbourhoods of Cooksville, Rockwood Village, and Dixie. 

Politically, this seat was the tightest loss for the Liberals in 2011, making it an easy pickup for them in 2015. From 2011-2019, the Liberal and Conservative candidates were the same, Wladyslaw Lizon for the Tories and Peter Fonesca for the Liberals. Lizon won by just 676 in 2011, only to lose by around 10,000 votes in 2015 and 2019. This seat is currently represented by Liberal MP Peter Fonesca.

Provincially, this riding is one to watch in this upcoming provincial election. The Liberals held on to much of their support in 2018, only losing the riding by 11 points. The Liberals are running former MPP Dipika Damerla, who last won with 52% of the vote, while the PC's are running incumbent Kaleed Rasheed, Ontario's first associate minister of digital government. In 2019, this seat was 76/121 in Ontario and 186/338 in Canada by margin.

The name is great, Cooksville is an appendage and isn't particularly eastern, so naming it specifically makes sense. The shape is good as well, it follows major streets as well as Etobicoke Creek. As for individuality, provincially it's interesting, federally, not so much.

Tomorrow we're further west in Mississauga—Erin Mills!