Markham—Unionville, ON — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Markham—Unionville — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Markham—Unionville was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Bob Saroya, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 24,605 votes (49.4% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Bang-Gu Jiang (Liberal) with 21,596 votes (43.3%), defeated by a margin of 3,009 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Colleen Zimmerman (NDP-New Democratic Party, 5%).
Riding information
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Situated in the heart of Markham within York Region, this riding centres on the historic village of Unionville and extends northward from Highway 407 to the rural edges of the city. The constituency includes the commercial corridors along Highway 7 — home to Pacific Mall and CF Markville shopping centre — and a mix of established and newer residential communities in South Unionville, Upper Unionville, and the areas west of Highway 48.
Candidates
Bob Saroya (Conservative) — Born in India, Saroya immigrated to Canada in 1974 and became a businessman in the food-service industry, eventually serving as a sales director with Pizza Pizza. He had previously run for Parliament in Etobicoke North in 2008 and in Markham—Unionville in 2011, losing the latter contest to incumbent John McCallum by fewer than 1,700 votes. He ran again in 2015, this time without McCallum on the ballot, as the longtime Liberal incumbent had shifted to the new Markham—Thornhill riding.
Bang-Gu Jiang (Liberal) — Jiang was a lawyer who ran as the Liberal candidate in the reconfigured riding.
Colleen Zimmerman (NDP) — Zimmerman carried the NDP nomination in Markham—Unionville.
Elvin Kao (Green Party) — Kao ran on the Green Party platform.
About the Riding
Markham—Unionville is defined by Main Street Unionville, a heritage commercial strip lined with independent shops and galleries that draws visitors from across the Greater Toronto Area, and by the bustling Highway 7 corridor, where condominium towers, shopping centres, and restaurants reflect the area's large Chinese-Canadian and South Asian communities. Pacific Mall, with more than 450 retail units, is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America. The riding experienced significant boundary changes in 2012, when roughly half of its former territory south of Highway 407 was carved off to form part of the new Markham—Thornhill riding. The remaining constituency skewed somewhat more suburban and was undergoing rapid residential development, with pressures on schools, transit, and municipal services.
