Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Cheryl Gallant, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 26,195 votes (45.8% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Jeff Lehoux (Liberal) with 18,666 votes (32.7%), defeated by a margin of 7,529 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Hector Clouthier (Independent, 11%) and Dan McCarthy (NDP-New Democratic Party, 9%).
Riding information
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Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke covers a vast tract of the upper Ottawa Valley, from the town of Arnprior in the southeast to the eastern edge of Algonquin Provincial Park. The riding encompasses all of Renfrew County and a sliver of Nipissing District, taking in the communities of Pembroke, Petawawa, Deep River, Renfrew, and Barry's Bay, along with Garrison Petawawa and the Pikwakanagan First Nation.
Candidates
Cheryl Gallant (Conservative) — First elected in 2000, Gallant was seeking her sixth consecutive term. A University of Western Ontario graduate with a science degree in chemistry, she had worked in biochemistry research at the University of Toronto and later in the insurance industry before entering politics. She won her original seat partly on the strength of rural opposition to the federal long-gun registry.
Jeff Lehoux (Liberal) — Lehoux mounted the strongest Liberal challenge the riding had seen in years, benefiting from a national tide that was lifting Liberal candidates across Ontario.
Hector Clouthier (Independent) — Clouthier, who had served as the riding's Liberal MP from 1997 to 2000 before losing to Gallant, returned to the ballot as an Independent candidate in 2015.
Dan McCarthy (NDP) — McCarthy ran for the NDP, focusing on economic development and job creation in a region heavily dependent on public-sector and military employment.
About the Riding
The military is the economic backbone of this riding. Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, one of Canada's largest army installations, is home to units including 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, and the base and its personnel drive much of the local economy in Petawawa and Pembroke. Deep River grew around the Chalk River Laboratories, operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (now Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), which has been a centre for nuclear research since the 1940s. Arnprior, at the riding's southeastern corner, has closer economic ties to Ottawa's technology sector. The forestry and tourism industries sustain many of the smaller communities scattered through the Ottawa Valley's rugged terrain. In 2015, issues of particular local concern included veterans' services, military procurement, rural health care access, and the future of the Chalk River site. The riding has been one of Ontario's most reliably Conservative seats, though the Liberal vote surged in the urban centres of Pembroke and Arnprior.
