The Political Record · Federal electoral districts
Sault Ste. Marie—Algoma
Federal riding · ON · No. 35091 · 2023 representation order
- Member
- Terry Sheehan Liberal
- 2025 result
- Liberal gain by 1,728 votes
- Turnout
- 67.9% of 96,688 electors
- Population
- 113,770 2021 census
- Area
- 51,609 km²
- Figures as of
- 2026-09-25
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
- Changed hands in 2025One of 58 of 343 ridings where the winning party changed from the transposed 2021 result (21 of 122 in Ontario)
- Decided before election dayOn election-day polls alone another party led; advance and special ballots decided it · one of 27 of 343
- Area, largest first51,609 km² · 26th of 343 in Canada
In brief
Illustration after: © House of Commons
Member of Parliament
Terry Sheehan
- Chair: Indigenous and Northern Affairs
- Chair: Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
- Member: Indigenous and Northern Affairs
IDid this riding change?
Yes. 15% of today's Sault Ste. Marie—Algoma came from ridings other than the old Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing.
Share of today's areaFormer riding
84.6%Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing 35% of it kept
15.4%Sault Ste. Marie
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 gain
Elected
Terry Sheehan
Liberal
30,936
47.4% of valid votes
Margin
1,728
votes · +2.7 pts
Runner-up
Hugh Stevenson
Conservative
29,208
44.7% of valid votes
Liberal 47.4% · Conservative 44.7% · New Democratic 6.6%
Turnout67.9% of 96,688 electors
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | 2021 | ± |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Sheehan | Liberal | 30,936 | 47.4% | 32.1% | +15.3 |
| Hugh Stevenson | Conservative | 29,208 | 44.7% | 35.4% | +9.3 |
| Laura Mayer | New Democratic | 4,327 | 6.6% | 25.7% | −19.1 |
2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
| Robyn Kiki Eshkibok | Green | 541 | 0.8% |
| James Collins | Other | 305 | 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
Swing needed to flip
1.4 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
4,327 votes
New Democratic took more than the 1,728-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
136 of 243
2 polls ended in an exact tie.
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 865 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 1.3% of the 65,317 valid votes, 1.4 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
Liberal30,936
Conservative29,208
Still Liberal by 1,728 votes. Actual margin: 1,728.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 60.9% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots. On election day alone, the Conservatives led here — the seat was decided by ballots cast before the day.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Conservative47.7%40.2%−7.5
Liberal43.5%53.4%+9.9
New Democratic7.3%5.5%−1.8
Green1.0%0.5%−0.5
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
- Median total household income is $70,000 — about 83 percent of the median riding's $84,000.highestlowest60th lowest of 343
- Median age is 50.0 — about 1.2 times the median riding's 41.6.highestlowest24th highest of 343
- Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20.5% — about 73 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.highestlowest103rd lowest of 343
- Share who are immigrants is 7.5% — about 43 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.highestlowest86th lowest of 343
- Share of households that own their home is 71.0% — about the same as the median riding's 71.4%.highestlowest168th lowest of 343
- Share with French as a mother tongue is 5.2% — about 3.3 times the median riding's 1.6%.highestlowest104th highest of 343
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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The card
No. 35091ON · 2025
Sault Ste. Marie—Algoma
Terry Sheehan
- Result
- Liberal gain by 1,728
- Turnout
- 67.9%
- Population
- 113,770
- Area
- 51,609 km²
Changed hands in 2025Decided before election dayArea, largest first
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