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Mississauga East—Cooksville

Mississauga-Est—Cooksville
Federal riding · ON · No. 35062 · 2023 representation order
Fig. 1 — Mississauga East—Cooksville, 2023 boundaries.
Member
Peter Fonseca Liberal
2025 result
Liberal hold by 3,026 votes
Turnout
63.4% of 86,223 electors
Population
120,195 2021 census
Area
32 km²
Figures as of
2026-09-25
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • Area, smallest first: 32 km² · 36th of 343 in Canada36th
    Area, smallest first
    32 km² · 36th of 343 in Canada
  • Turnout, lowest first: 63.4% of 86,223 electors voted · 55th of 343 in Canada55th
    Turnout, lowest first
    63.4% of 86,223 electors voted · 55th of 343 in Canada
  • Closeness of the race: Won by 3,026 votes (5.6 pts) · 61st of 343 in Canada61st
    Closeness of the race
    Won by 3,026 votes (5.6 pts) · 61st of 343 in Canada
In brief
  1. Peter Fonseca held the seat for the Liberals by 3,026 votes (+5.6 points).
  2. 7% of today's riding was drawn from other ridings in 2023.
  3. Election-day and advance voters agreed on the winner; 64.6% of votes were cast on the day.
  4. Share who are immigrants is the 13th highest of 343 ridings.
Illustration after: © House of Commons
Member of Parliament
Peter Fonseca
Liberal · first elected 2015-10-19 · 4 terms
  • Member: International Trade
43 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on An Act to Implement the Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 7% of today's Mississauga East—Cooksville came from ridings other than the old Mississauga East—Cooksville.

Share of today's areaFormer riding
93.5%Mississauga East—Cooksville 89% of it kept
6.4%Mississauga Centre 9% of it kept
How this is measured. Share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files. It is area, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

Liberal hold
Elected
Peter Fonseca
Liberal
27,138
50.2% of valid votes
Margin
3,026
votes · +5.6 pts
Runner-up
Nita Kang
Conservative
24,112
44.6% of valid votes
Liberal 50.2% · Conservative 44.6% · New Democratic 2.8% · People's 1.8%
Turnout63.4% of 86,223 electors
CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Peter FonsecaLiberal27,13850.2%49.8%+0.4
Nita KangConservative24,11244.6%31.3%+13.3
Khawar HussainNew Democratic1,5082.8%10.4%−7.6
Amit GuptaPeople's9641.8%6.4%−4.6
2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
Winston HardingIndependent2210.4%
Dagmar SullivanOther1130.2%
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

Swing needed to flip
2.8 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
1,508 votes
New Democratic took fewer than the 3,026-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
106 of 193
3 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (84) · ■ won by another party (106) · ▨ tied (3).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 1,514 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 2.8% of the 54,056 valid votes, 2.8 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Liberal27,138
Conservative24,112
Still Liberal by 3,026 votes. Actual margin: 3,026.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 64.6% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Liberal47.6%54.9%+7.3
Conservative46.8%40.5%−6.3
New Democratic2.8%2.8%+0.0
People's2.0%1.3%−0.7
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.

VWhat kind of place this is

2021 Census, keyed to the 2023 representation order. Comparisons are against the median riding, not Canada as a whole. Each rule places this riding among all 343.

VIWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Mississauga East—Cooksville and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

The card

No. 35062ON · 2025
Mississauga East—Cooksville
Peter Fonseca
Result
Liberal hold by 3,026
Turnout
63.4%
Population
120,195
Area
32 km²
Area, smallest first: 32 km² · 36th of 343 in Canada36thArea, smallest firstTurnout, lowest first: 63.4% of 86,223 electors voted · 55th of 343 in Canada55thTurnout, lowest firstCloseness of the race: Won by 3,026 votes (5.6 pts) · 61st of 343 in Canada61stCloseness of the race
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