The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 35043Ontario

Kanata

Kanata is a federal riding in Ontario. Jenna Sudds (Liberal, first elected to the House in 2021) represents Kanata. Jenna Sudds (Liberal) held Kanata for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 18,687 votes (25.1 points), with 60.8% of the vote. Greg Kung (Conservative) was second with 35.7%, on a turnout of 78.3% of 95,641 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Kanata on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Kanata

Jenna Sudds's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Jenna Sudds

Member of Parliament for Kanata

Liberal

MP since 2021-09-20 · 2 terms

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and to the Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
Government Operations and Estimates committee
Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure

36 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Kanata, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 74,460 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Jenna Sudds	Liberal	45,244	60.8%
Greg Kung	Conservative	26,557	35.7%
Melissa Simon	New Democratic	1,702	2.3%
Jennifer Purdy	Green	835	1.1%
Other (1)		122	0.2%

Jenna Sudds (Liberal) won Kanata on April 28, 2025 with 45,244 votes, 60.8% of the 74,460 valid votes. Greg Kung (Conservative) was second with 26,557 (35.7%), 18,687 votes and 25.1 points behind.

Of the 74,460 valid votes, Jenna Sudds (Liberal) took 60.8%, Greg Kung (Conservative) 35.7%, Melissa Simon (New Democratic) 2.3% and Jennifer Purdy (Green) 1.1%; one other candidate took 0.2%. Turnout was 78.3% of 95,641 electors: 74,917 ballots cast, 74,460 of them valid, for 5 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 17.9 (42.9% to 60.8%), the Conservatives down 0.9 (36.6% to 35.7%), the New Democrats down 12.3 (14.6% to 2.3%) and the Greens down 1.4 (2.5% to 1.1%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: no party has held it

The party first in Kanata at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Conservative49.5%by 14.9 points over the Liberals
2006Conservative55.9%by 31.8 points over the Liberals
2008Conservative57.4%by 34.8 points over the Liberals
2011Conservative56.5%by 32.4 points over the Liberals
2015changed handsLiberal50.7%by 11.1 points over the Conservatives
2019Liberal42.9%by 5.7 points over the Conservatives
2021Liberal42.9%by 6.3 points over the Conservatives
2025Liberal60.8%by 25.1 points over the Conservatives

Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran.

The figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Conservative	49.5%	Liberal	14.9	carried, our estimate
2006	Conservative	55.9%	Liberal	31.8	carried, our estimate
2008	Conservative	57.4%	Liberal	34.8	carried, our estimate
2011	Conservative	56.5%	Liberal	32.4	carried, our estimate
2015	Liberal	50.7%	Conservative	11.1	carried, our estimate
2019	Liberal	42.9%	Conservative	5.7	carried, our estimate
2021	Liberal	42.9%	Conservative	6.3	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Liberal	60.8%	Conservative	25.1	official result

The Conservatives were first at four of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Liberals at four; it changed hands once. In 2025 the Liberals took 60.8% of the vote here, 26.2 points above their average of 34.6% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Conservatives were first here in 2004 (49.5%), 2006 (55.9%), 2008 (57.4%) and 2011 (56.5%) and the Liberals in 2015 (50.7%), 2019 (42.9%), 2021 (42.9%) and 2025 (60.8%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result.

Before 2025

2021 Liberal · Jenna Sudds, by 2,021 votes (3.2 pts)
2019 Liberal · Karen McCrimmon, by 4,385 votes (6.6 pts)
2015 Liberal · Karen McCrimmon, by 7,648 votes (12.1 pts)

In Kanata—Carleton on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Kanata lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Kanata is

Population: 121,5652021 census
Area: 233km²
Density: 523people per km²
Electors: 95,641on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

4th-highest turnout in Canada
78.3% of 95,641 electors voted · 4th of 343

Median total household income is $122,000 — about 1.5 times the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest15th highest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52.7% — about 1.9 times the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest35th highest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 80.4% — a little higher than the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest55th highest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 6.1% — about 3.8 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest101st highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 28.3% — about 1.6 times the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest112th highest of 343
Median age is 40.8 — about the same as the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest141st lowest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 80% of the 2025 electors in today's Kanata lived in the old Kanata—Carleton; by area, 30% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

80.2%Kanata—Carleton 70.5% of the area · 20% of it kept

10.2%Carleton 5.5% of the area · 1% of it kept

8.1%Nepean 8.2% of the area · 11% of it kept

1.5%Ottawa West—Nepean 15.8% of the area · 40% of it kept

How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Jenna Sudds	Liberal	45,244	60.8%	42.9%	+17.9
Greg Kung	Conservative	26,557	35.7%	36.6%	−0.9
Melissa Simon	New Democratic	1,702	2.3%	14.6%	−12.3
Jennifer Purdy	Green	835	1.1%	2.5%	−1.4

1 further candidate, under 1% of the vote

Moinuddin Siddiqui

Other

122

0.2%

The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin

1,702 votes

New Democratic took fewer than the 18,687-vote margin.

Election-day polls won by others

17 of 201

1 poll ended in an exact tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (183) · ■ won by another party (17) · ▨ tied (1).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 9,344 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 12.5% of the 74,460 valid votes, 12.6 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0018,688

Liberal45,244

Conservative26,557

Still Liberal by 18,687 votes. Actual margin: 18,687.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 47.4% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 57.4%, the Conservatives 37.9%, the New Democrats 3.0% and the Greens 1.4%; in advance and special ballots, 63.8%, 33.6%, 1.7% and 0.8%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Kanata, April 28, 2025

Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	57.4%	63.8%	+6.4
Conservative	37.9%	33.6%	−4.3
New Democratic	3.0%	1.7%	−1.3
Green	1.4%	0.8%	−0.6

An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Kanata and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Kanata — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/kanata/
Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.