The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 35045Ontario

Kenora—Kiiwetinoong

Kenora—Kiiwetinoong is a federal riding in Ontario. Eric Melillo (Conservative, first elected to the House in 2019) represents Kenora—Kiiwetinoong. Eric Melillo (Conservative) held Kenora—Kiiwetinoong for the Conservatives in the 2025 election by 3,655 votes (13.5 points), with 48.7% of the vote. Charles Fox (Liberal) was second with 35.2%, on a turnout of 59.6% of 45,420 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Kenora—Kiiwetinoong 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 Kenora—Kiiwetinoong

Eric Melillo's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Eric Melillo

Member of Parliament for Kenora—Kiiwetinoong

Conservative

MP since 2019-10-21 · 3 terms

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee

106 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Business of Supply — Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates (A), 2025-26.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Conservative hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Kenora—Kiiwetinoong, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 26,892 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
Eric Melillo	Conservative	13,109	48.7%
Charles Fox	Liberal	9,454	35.2%
Tania Cameron	New Democratic	3,698	13.8%
Jon Hobbs	Green	286	1.1%
Others (2)		345	1.3%

Eric Melillo (Conservative) won Kenora—Kiiwetinoong on April 28, 2025 with 13,109 votes, 48.7% of the 26,892 valid votes. Charles Fox (Liberal) was second with 9,454 (35.2%), 3,655 votes and 13.5 points behind.

Of the 26,892 valid votes, Eric Melillo (Conservative) took 48.7%, Charles Fox (Liberal) 35.2%, Tania Cameron (New Democratic) 13.8% and Jon Hobbs (Green) 1.1%; the 2 other candidates took 1.3% together. Turnout was 59.6% of 45,420 electors: 27,066 ballots cast, 26,892 of them valid, for 6 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Conservatives are up 5.6 (43.1% to 48.7%), the Liberals up 15.4 (19.8% to 35.2%), the New Democrats down 15.2 (29.0% to 13.8%) and the Greens down 0.3 (1.4% 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 Kenora—Kiiwetinoong at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Liberal36.2%by 4.2 points over the New Democrats
2006Liberal36.5%by 5.5 points over the Conservatives
2008changed handsConservative40.5%by 8.8 points over the Liberals
2011Conservative47.1%by 19.2 points over the New Democrats
2015†changed handsLiberal35.5%by 1.6 points over the New Democrats
2019changed handsConservative34.0%by 4.0 points over the Liberals
2021Conservative43.1%by 14.1 points over the New Democrats
2025Conservative48.7%by 13.5 points over the Liberals

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 first two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

The figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Liberal	36.2%	New Democratic	4.2	carried, our estimate
2006	Liberal	36.5%	Conservative	5.5	carried, our estimate
2008	Conservative	40.5%	Liberal	8.8	carried, our estimate
2011	Conservative	47.1%	New Democratic	19.2	carried, our estimate
2015†	Liberal	35.5%	New Democratic	1.6	carried, our estimate
2019	Conservative	34.0%	Liberal	4.0	carried, our estimate
2021	Conservative	43.1%	New Democratic	14.1	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Conservative	48.7%	Liberal	13.5	official result

The Conservatives were first at five of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Liberals at three; it changed hands three times. In 2025 the Conservatives took 48.7% of the vote here, 12.7 points above their average of 36.0% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (36.2%), 2006 (36.5%) and 2015 (35.5%) and the Conservatives in 2008 (40.5%), 2011 (47.1%), 2019 (34.0%), 2021 (43.1%) and 2025 (48.7%), 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. In 2015 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025

2021 Conservative · Eric Melillo, by 3,302 votes (12.7 pts)
2019 Conservative · Eric Melillo, by 1,110 votes (4.0 pts)
2015 Liberal · Bob Nault, by 498 votes (1.6 pts)

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

What kind of place Kenora—Kiiwetinoong is

Population: 61,9602021 census
Area: 289,400km²
Density: 0.21people per km²
Electors: 45,420on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

10th-largest by area in Canada
289,400 km² · 10th of 343
5th-largest Indigenous share
46.5% report an Indigenous identity, 5th highest of 343 (Share with an Indigenous identity, 2021 census)
Least populous in Ontario
61,960 people, 2021 census · 1st of 122 in Ontario · 11th of 343 in Canada

Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15.3% — about 54 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest39th lowest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 4.0% — about 23 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest43rd lowest of 343
Median age is 38.8 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest89th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 62.0% — a little lower than the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest93rd lowest of 343
Median total household income is $79,500 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest141st lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.6% — about the same as the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest165th highest 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 — it shrank. All of today's Kenora—Kiiwetinoong, its electors as well as its ground, comes from the old Kenora, but it is only 90% of that riding by area. The rest went elsewhere.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

100.0%Kenora 100.0% of the area · 90% 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	±
Eric Melillo	Conservative	13,109	48.7%	43.1%	+5.6
Charles Fox	Liberal	9,454	35.2%	19.8%	+15.4
Tania Cameron	New Democratic	3,698	13.8%	29.0%	−15.2
Jon Hobbs	Green	286	1.1%	1.4%	−0.3

2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote

Bryce Desjarlais	People's	204	0.8%
Kelvin Boucher-Chicago	Independent	141	0.5%

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

3,698 votes

New Democratic took more than the 3,655-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.

Election-day polls won by others

37 of 127

1 poll ended in an exact tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Conservatives (89) · ■ won by another party (37) · ▨ tied (1).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 1,828 voters switching from Conservative to Liberal — 6.8% of the 26,892 valid votes, 6.8 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 003,656

Conservative13,109

Liberal9,454

Still Conservative by 3,655 votes. Actual margin: 3,655.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 61.9% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Conservatives took 46.6%, the Liberals 34.8% and the New Democrats 16.2%; in advance and special ballots, 52.2%, 35.8% and 9.9%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Kenora—Kiiwetinoong, 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
Conservative	46.6%	52.2%	+5.6
Liberal	34.8%	35.8%	+1.0
New Democratic	16.2%	9.9%	−6.3

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 — Kenora—Kiiwetinoong and its 6 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Kenora—Kiiwetinoong — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/kenora-kiiwetinoong/
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.