Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Northumberland—Peterborough South — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Northumberland—Peterborough South was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Kim Rudd, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 27,043 votes (42.5% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Adam Moulton (Conservative) with 25,165 votes (39.6%), defeated by a margin of 1,878 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Russ Christianson (NDP-New Democratic Party, 15%).
Riding information
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Hugging the north shore of Lake Ontario between Toronto and Kingston, Northumberland—Peterborough South took in the towns of Cobourg and Port Hope, the municipality of Brighton, and the rural townships stretching north toward Rice Lake and the southern edge of Peterborough County. The riding combined lakeshore communities with inland agricultural and forested areas linked by Highway 401 and the historic communities along the former Highway 2 corridor.
Candidates
Kim Rudd (Liberal) — A Cobourg-based entrepreneur, Rudd was a past president and owner of Willis College in Cobourg and had previously owned Cook's Day School. She served as past president of the Northumberland Central Chamber of Commerce and was a recipient of the 2011 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award, reflecting a career focused on education, child care, and small business development in the region.
Adam Moulton (Conservative) — A young businessman in his mid-twenties, Moulton won a contested Conservative nomination with the backing of senior party figures. He was among the younger candidates running in Ontario in the 2015 election.
Russ Christianson (NDP) — Based in Campbellford in the northern part of the riding, Christianson worked as a consultant and was active in the local arts community.
Patricia Sinnott (Green Party) — Sinnott represented the Green Party in the riding.
About the Riding
Cobourg and Port Hope, separated by just seven kilometres along the Lake Ontario shore, formed the riding's population and commercial centres. Cobourg's waterfront, heritage downtown, and the restored Victoria Hall drew visitors and retirees alike, and the town had been recognized for its combination of low unemployment, reasonable housing costs, and quality of life. Port Hope sat at the mouth of the Ganaraska River and was home to the historic Capitol Theatre and a long-running federal remediation project to clean up low-level radioactive waste from the former Eldorado Nuclear refinery. Inland, Rice Lake and the Trent-Severn Waterway supported recreational tourism, while the Ganaraska Forest — one of the largest forested areas in southern Ontario at some eleven thousand acres — provided a managed natural resource. Agriculture, including dairy, cash crops, and the expanding craft beverage sector, remained important to the rural townships.
