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Mississauga Centre

Mississauga-Centre

Mississauga Centre is a federal riding in Ontario. Fares Al Soud (Liberal) has represented Mississauga Centre since the 2025 election. Fares Al Soud (Liberal) held Mississauga Centre for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 6,595 votes (12.0 points), with 53.9% of the vote. Muhammad Ishaq (Conservative) was second with 41.9%, on a turnout of 62.6% of 88,592 electors. Member as of .

Mississauga East—Cooksville · LiberalMississauga—Erin Mills · LiberalMississauga—Lakeshore · LiberalMississauga—Malton · LiberalMississauga—Streetsville · LiberalMississauga Centre
Fig. 1 — Mississauga Centre on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on . Open it on the board →

Who represents Mississauga Centre

LFares Al Soud
Fares Al Soud's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Fares Al Soud

Member of Parliament for Mississauga Centre

Liberal

MP since · first term

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The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Mississauga Centre, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Mississauga Centre, April 28, 2025Of the 54,976 valid votes, Fares Al Soud (Liberal) took 53.9%, Muhammad Ishaq (Conservative) 41.9%, Brandon Nguyen (New Democratic) 2.7% and Gurdeep Wolosz (People's Party) 1.1%; one other candidate took 0.5%.2025Turnout 62.6% of 88,592 electorsFares Al SoudLiberal53.9% · 29,6056,595 votes ahead · 12.0 ptsMuhammad IshaqConservative41.9% · 23,010Brandon NguyenNew Democratic2.7% · 1,502Gurdeep WoloszPeople's Party1.1% · 602Other (1)0.5% · 257050%100%
Share of the valid votes by candidate, Mississauga Centre, April 28, 2025Of the 54,976 valid votes, Fares Al Soud (Liberal) took 53.9%, Muhammad Ishaq (Conservative) 41.9%, Brandon Nguyen (New Democratic) 2.7% and Gurdeep Wolosz (People's Party) 1.1%; one other candidate took 0.5%.2025Turnout 62.6% of 88,592 electorsFares Al SoudLiberal53.9% · 29,6056,595 votes ahead · 12.0 ptsMuhammad IshaqConservative41.9% · 23,010Brandon NguyenNew Democratic2.7% · 1,502Gurdeep WoloszPeople's Party1.1% · 602Other (1)0.5% · 257050%100%
Shares of the 54,976 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Fares Al SoudLiberal29,60553.9%
Muhammad IshaqConservative23,01041.9%
Brandon NguyenNew Democratic1,5022.7%
Gurdeep WoloszPeople's Party6021.1%
Other (1)2570.5%

Fares Al Soud (Liberal) won Mississauga Centre on with 29,605 votes, 53.9% of the 54,976 valid votes. Muhammad Ishaq (Conservative) was second with 23,010 (41.9%), 6,595 votes and 12.0 points behind.

Of the 54,976 valid votes, Fares Al Soud (Liberal) took 53.9%, Muhammad Ishaq (Conservative) 41.9%, Brandon Nguyen (New Democratic) 2.7% and Gurdeep Wolosz (People's Party) 1.1%; one other candidate took 0.5%. Turnout was 62.6% of 88,592 electors: 55,430 ballots cast, 54,976 of them valid, for 5 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 0.5 (53.4% to 53.9%), the Conservatives up 13.3 (28.6% to 41.9%), the New Democrats down 8.5 (11.2% to 2.7%) and the People's Party down 3.1 (4.2% 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: usually Liberal

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

  1. 2004Liberal55.7%by 28.2 points over the Conservatives
  2. 2006Liberal50.0%by 16.4 points over the Conservatives
  3. 2008Liberal46.9%by 11.3 points over the Conservatives
  4. 2011changed handsConservative43.5%by 7.3 points over the Liberals
  5. 2015changed handsLiberal54.9%by 21.4 points over the Conservatives
  6. 2019Liberal55.6%by 25.8 points over the Conservatives
  7. 2021Liberal53.4%by 24.8 points over the Conservatives
  8. 2025Liberal53.9%by 12.0 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
YearFirstShareSecondMargin (pts)Basis
2004Liberal55.7%Conservative28.2carried, our estimate
2006Liberal50.0%Conservative16.4carried, our estimate
2008Liberal46.9%Conservative11.3carried, our estimate
2011Conservative43.5%Liberal7.3carried, our estimate
2015Liberal54.9%Conservative21.4carried, our estimate
2019Liberal55.6%Conservative25.8carried, our estimate
2021Liberal53.4%Conservative24.8transposed by Elections Canada
2025Liberal53.9%Conservative12.0official result

The Liberals were first here at seven of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025; the Conservatives were first in 2011. In 2025 the Liberals took 53.9% of the vote here, 3.5 points above their average of 50.4% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (55.7%), 2006 (50.0%), 2008 (46.9%), 2015 (54.9%), 2019 (55.6%), 2021 (53.4%) and 2025 (53.9%) and the Conservatives in 2011 (43.5%), 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 83 of the 343 ridings are usually one party's. 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 · Omar Alghabra, by 12,329 votes (26.0 pts)
  • 2019 Liberal · Omar Alghabra, by 14,100 votes (26.3 pts)
  • 2015 Liberal · Omar Alghabra, by 10,941 votes (21.1 pts)

In the old Mississauga Centre on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Mississauga Centre lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Mississauga Centre is

Population
124,0852021 census
Area
25km²
Density
5,044people per km²
Electors
88,592on the 2025 lists
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • 5th-largest immigrant share: 61.1% are immigrants, 5th highest of 343 (Share who are immigrants, 2021 census)5th
    5th-largest immigrant share
    61.1% are immigrants, 5th highest of 343 (Share who are immigrants, 2021 census)
  • Share who are immigrants is 61.1% — about 3.5 times the median riding's 17.3%.
    highestlowest5th highest of 343
  • Share with French as a mother tongue is 0.6% — about 37 percent of the median riding's 1.6%.
    highestlowest30th lowest of 343
  • Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50.7% — about 1.8 times the median riding's 28.2%.
    highestlowest44th highest of 343
  • Median age is 38.8 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.
    highestlowest89th lowest of 343
  • Median total household income is $90,000 — a little higher than the median riding's $84,000.
    highestlowest112th highest of 343
  • Share of households that own their home is 66.7% — a little lower than the median riding's 71.4%.
    highestlowest120th 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. 84% of the 2025 electors in today's Mississauga Centre lived in the old Mississauga Centre; by area, 15% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding
83.5%Mississauga Centre 84.7% of the area · 86% of it kept
11.4%Mississauga East—Cooksville 11.2% of the area · 8% of it kept
5.1%Mississauga—Malton 4.1% of the area · 1% 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

CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Fares Al SoudLiberal29,60553.9%53.4%+0.5
Muhammad IshaqConservative23,01041.9%28.6%+13.3
Brandon NguyenNew Democratic1,5022.7%11.2%−8.5
Gurdeep WoloszPeople's6021.1%4.2%−3.1
1 further candidate, under 1% of the vote
Zulfiqar AliIndependent2570.5%
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
1,502 votes
New Democratic took fewer than the 6,595-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
61 of 199
No poll ended in a tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (138) · ■ won by another party (61).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 3,298 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 6.0% of the 54,976 valid votes, 6.0 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Liberal29,605
Conservative23,010
Still Liberal by 6,595 votes. Actual margin: 6,595.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 68.5% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 51.8%, the Conservatives 43.6%, the New Democrats 2.8% and the People's Party 1.2%; in advance and special ballots, 58.3%, 38.1%, 2.5% and 0.8%, in that order.

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

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Mississauga Centre, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 51.8%, the Conservatives 43.6%, the New Democrats 2.8% and the People's Party 1.2%; in advance and special ballots, 58.3%, 38.1%, 2.5% and 0.8%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal51.8%58.3%+6.5 ptsConservative43.6%38.1%−5.5 ptsNew Democratic2.8%2.5%−0.3 ptsPeople's Party1.2%0.8%−0.4 pts050%100%
Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Mississauga Centre, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 51.8%, the Conservatives 43.6%, the New Democrats 2.8% and the People's Party 1.2%; in advance and special ballots, 58.3%, 38.1%, 2.5% and 0.8%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal51.8%58.3%+6.5 ptsConservative43.6%38.1%−5.5 ptsNew Democratic2.8%2.5%−0.3 ptsPeople's Party1.2%0.8%−0.4 pts050%100%
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
PartyElection dayAdvance and specialGap
Liberal51.8%58.3%+6.5
Conservative43.6%38.1%−5.5
New Democratic2.8%2.5%−0.3
People's Party1.2%0.8%−0.4
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 — Mississauga Centre and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Mississauga Centre — federal riding profile and 2025 results." The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/mississauga-centre/ 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.