Milton is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The riding was created in 2015.

The riding is coterminous with the former federal electoral district of the same name. It consists of all of Milton plus the city of Burlington north of Dundas Street and Highway 407.

Profile The electoral district in its current form consists of the part of Burlington north of Dundas Street and Highway 407 and the town of Milton. The eponymous town, which makes up much of the riding's area, is a quickly growing settlement which dates back to the 1820s. According to the 2016 census, the riding population grew over six times as much as the Ontario average between 2011 and 2016, from 88,065 to 114,093 (a 29.6% increase compared to the provincial average of 4.6%). Over a third of the riding's population are immigrants. In 2015, the median income in the riding was $42,779, up from $41,801 in 2010. The median age in the district is 36, below the Ontario average of 41.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2013 representation

Languages: 56.3% English, 9.4% Urdu, 4% Arabic, 2.3% Spanish, 1.8% Punjabi, 1.5% Tagalog, 1.3% Polish, 1.2% Portuguese, 1.1% French, 1.1% Hindi, 1.1% Mandarin Religions: 48.4% Christian (27.9% Catholic, 3.1% Christian Orthodox, 2.6% Anglican, 2% United Church, 1.4% Pentecostal, 1.1% Presbyterian), 22.6% Muslim, 19.4% no religion, 5.9% Hindu, 2.4% Sikh Median income (2020): $46,000 Average income (2020): $60,000

Ethnicity groups: White: 45.3%, South Asian: 27.6%, Black: 5.7%, Arab: 5.6%, Filipino: 3.9%, Chinese: 2.8%, Latin American: 2.5%, West Asian: 1.3%, Southeast Asian: 1%

Ethnic origins: Pakistani 11.9%, English 11.5%, Indian 10.6%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 9.2%, Canadian 8.9%, Italian 5.8%, German 4.7%, Filipino 4%, Portuguese 3.9%

Members of Provincial Parliament

Election results

^ Results are compared to redistributed results

2014 general election redistributed results Party Vote %   Liberal 13,964 43.09   Progressive Conservative 12,171 37.56   New Democratic 4,672 14.42   Green 1,161 3.58   Others 437 1.35

See also List of Ontario provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

External links Map of riding for 2018 election