Haldimand—Norfolk is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1997, and since 2004. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Conservative Leslyn Lewis.

This riding is located in rural Southern Ontario, and comprises Haldimand and Norfolk Counties, except for parts of the Six Nations and New Credit Indian reserves. The total area is 3,073 km². There are 205 polling divisions. Neighbouring districts include Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, Brant, Elgin—Middlesex—London, Niagara West—Glanbrook, Oxford, and Welland.

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[3]

Languages: 89.5% English, 1.9% German, 1.0% Dutch
Religions: 62.1% Christian (20.4% Catholic, 8.1% United Church, 6.0% Anglican, 3.5% Baptist, 2.6% Presbyterian, 2.1% Reformed, 2.0% Anabaptist, 1.5% Pentecostal, 1.4% Lutheran, 14.5% Other), 36.4% None
Median income: $40,800 (2020)
Average income: $49,480 (2020)

Panethnic groups in Haldimand—Norfolk (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021^[4]	2016^[5]	2011^[6]
Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European^[a]	105,950	92.3%	101,870	94.81%	100,310	95%
Indigenous	4,005	3.49%	3,335	3.1%	3,410	3.23%
African	1,405	1.22%	800	0.74%	575	0.54%
South Asian	965	0.84%	330	0.31%	175	0.17%
Southeast Asian^[b]	725	0.63%	375	0.35%	275	0.26%
East Asian^[c]	575	0.5%	335	0.31%	425	0.4%
Latin American	450	0.39%	190	0.18%	120	0.11%
Middle Eastern^[d]	285	0.25%	80	0.07%	30	0.03%
Other/multiracial^[e]	445	0.39%	135	0.13%	255	0.24%
Total responses	114,790	98.36%	107,450	97.99%	105,585	97.72%
Total population	116,706	100%	109,652	100%	108,051	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Haldimand—Norfolk has existed as a federal electoral district twice. It was first created in 1976 from the riding of Norfolk—Haldimand. Haldimand—Norfolk was later abolished in 1996, and was mostly replaced by Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant. It was recreated in 2003 from 12.0% of Erie—Lincoln and 88.0% of Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant.

From its first election in 1979 to 1988, Haldimand—Norfolk was represented by the Progressive Conservative Bud Bradley. In 1988, Liberal Bob Speller defeated Bradley. Speller went on to serve as Minister of Agriculture. In 2004, Haldimand—Norfolk elected Conservative candidate Diane Finley, who was re-elected in 2008 and 2011. After being re-elected in the 2006 election, Finley was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development. She was shuffled from the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada portfolio on January 4, 2007. After her 2008 election victory she resumed her former post as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development in the Conservative minority government, a post she continued to hold until 2013.

This riding was left unchanged after the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

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This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Haldimand—Norfolk Riding created from Norfolk—Haldimand
31st	1979–1980		Bud Bradley	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Bob Speller	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
Riding dissolved into Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant
Riding re-created from Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant and Erie—Lincoln
38th	2004–2006		Diane Finley	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present	Leslyn Lewis

Graph of election results in Haldimand—Norfolk (since 2004, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Leslyn Lewis	29,664	47.39	+0.64	$95,262.97
	Liberal	Karen Matthews	17,224	27.52	+2.98	$68,413.90
	New Democratic	Meghan Piironen	8,320	13.29	-2.05	$1,184.27
	People's	Ken Gilpin	6,570	10.50	+8.44	$4,451.20
	Christian Heritage	Charles Lugosi	559	0.89	-0.47	$8,363.12
	Veterans Coalition	George McMorrow	255	0.41	-1.40	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit	62,505	–	–	$121,858.73
Total rejected ballots	425
Turnout	63,017	67.18	+1.25
Eligible voters	93,802
	Conservative hold	Swing	-2.34
Source: Elections Canada^[7]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Diane Finley	28,018	46.75	+2.7	$71,248.92
	Liberal	Kim Huffman	14,704	24.54	-12.1	$47,529.88
	New Democratic	Adrienne Roberts	9,192	15.34	+1.7	$2,660.65
	Green	Brooke Martin	4,878	8.14	+4.8	none listed
	People's	Bob Forbes	1,234	2.06	-	$2,959.97
	Veterans Coalition	Harold Stewart	1,083	1.81	-	none listed
	Christian Heritage	Lily Eggink	817	1.36	-0.2	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit	59,926	99.28
Total rejected ballots	436	0.72
Turnout	60,362	65.93
Eligible voters	91,557
	Conservative hold	Swing	+7.4
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Diane Finley	24,714	44.14	-6.80	$127,788.19
	Liberal	Joan Mouland	20,487	36.59	+11.67	$72,346.01
	New Democratic	John Harris	7,625	13.62	-6.36	$3,656.59
	Green	Wayne Ettinger	1,857	3.32	+0.01	$12,277.23
	Christian Heritage	David Bylsma	884	1.58	+0.72	$7,252.58
	Independent	Dustin Wakeford	272	0.49	–	$12,267.19
	Independent	Leslie Bory	151	0.27	–	$1,616.53
Total valid votes/expense limit	55,990	100.00		$219,180.63
Total rejected ballots	312	0.55
Turnout	56,302	68.14
Eligible voters	82,621
	Conservative hold	Swing	-9.24
Source: Elections Canada^[10]^[11]

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Diane Finley	25,655	50.94	+10.11	–
	Liberal	Bob Speller	12,549	24.92	-7.43	–
	New Democratic	Ian Nichols	10,062	19.98	+8.45	–
	Green	Anne Faulkner	1,665	3.31	-0.93	–
	Christian Heritage	Steven Elgersma	435	0.86	-0.18	–
Total valid votes/expense limit	50,366	100.0	4.1
Total rejected ballots	256	0.51	–
Turnout	50,622	63.49
Eligible voters	79,729	–	–

Source: [1]

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Diane Finley	19,657	40.83	-7.5	$67,583
	Liberal	Eric Hoskins	15,577	32.35	-1.9	$72,913
	New Democratic	Ian Nichols	5,549	11.53	-1.3	$5,509
	Independent	Gary McHale	4,821	10.01	–	$22,798
	Green	Stephana Johnston	2,041	4.24	+0.7	$2,581
	Christian Heritage	Steven Elgersma	501	1.04	0.0
Total valid votes/expense limit	48,146	100	$85,391
Majority	4,080	8.48
Total rejected ballots	248	0.51
Turnout	48,394

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election: Haldimand—Norfolk
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diane Finley	25,885	48.33	+6.1
	Liberal	Bob Speller	18,363	34.29	-4.5
	New Democratic	Valya Roberts	6,858	12.80	-1.6
	Green	Carolyn Van Nort	1,894	3.54	+0.1
	Christian Heritage	Steven Elgersma	559	1.04	-0.2
Turnout	53,559
	Conservative hold	Swing	+5.3

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diane Finley	20,981	42.2	-6.2
	Liberal	Bob Speller	19,336	38.8	-7.2
	New Democratic	Carrie Sinkowski	7,143	14.4	+9.8
	Green	Colin Jones	1,703	3.4
	Christian Heritage	Steven Elgersma	617	1.2
Majority	1,645	3.3
Turnout	49,780	63.3
	Conservative gain from Liberal	Swing	+1.0

Poll-by-poll results

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

From 1996 until 2003, Haldimand—Norfolk did not exist as a federal riding, and was mostly represented by Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant. Results for 1997 and 2000 can be found on that page.

Graph of election results in Haldimand—Norfolk (1979-1993, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bob Speller	24,100	53.6	+15.6
	Reform	Ken Gilpen	10,563	23.5
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Cronkwright	7,273	16.2	-21.4
	New Democratic	Herman Plas	1,667	3.7	-11.4
	National	Ross Bateman	1,340	3.0
Total	44,943	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bob Speller	16,921	38.0	+11.7
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Bradley	16,712	37.6	-21.5
	New Democratic	Eric Butt	6,736	15.1	+1.9
	Christian Heritage	Gary Sytsma	3,969	8.9
	Libertarian	David Yaki	162	0.4
Total	44,500	100.0

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Bradley	27,296	59.0	+17.0
	Liberal	Edith Fuller	12,161	26.3	-15.4
	New Democratic	Bill Jefferies	6,138	13.3	-2.4
	Independent	Martin J. Weber	656	1.4
Total valid votes	46,251	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Bradley	18,600	42.0	-7.6
	Liberal	Art Renn	18,461	41.7	+6.7
	New Democratic	Norm, Walpole	6,937	15.7	+0.9
	Social Credit	Charley Harris	284	0.6	0.0
Total valid votes	44,282	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Bud Bradley	22,655	49.6
	Liberal	Art Renn	15,990	35.0
	New Democratic	Joe Clark	6,762	14.8
	Social Credit	William Triska	309	0.7
Total valid votes	45,716	100.0

"Haldimand—Norfolk (federal electoral district) (Code 35028) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 3 March 2011.

^ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
^ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
^ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
^ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
^ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.

^ Statistics Canada: 2012
^ Statistics Canada: 2012
^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (9 February 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Haldimand--Norfolk [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (26 October 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (27 October 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (27 November 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
^ "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Haldimand—Norfolk, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates

Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament:

(1976 - 1996)
(2003 - 2008)
2011 Results from Elections Canada
Website of the Parliament of Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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