Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Flamborough—Glanbrook—Brant North

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 13, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

• Read each of CBC Hamilton's coverage of the federal election here. 

In the long-time Conservative riding of Flamborough—Glanbrook—Brant North, the erstwhile MP is seeking re-election. 

Conservative campaigner Dan Muys was archetypal elected successful 2021 erstwhile the riding was called Flamborough—Glanbrook. He won 40 per cent of the vote, up of the second-place Liberal's astatine 36 per cent. 

Now, Muys faces disconnected against Liberal Chuck Phillips and NDP campaigner Peter Werhun, among others.

The U-shaped, 1,097-square-kilometre, riding wraps astir the east, southbound and westbound of Hamilton. It's astir 20 per cent larger pursuing 2023 bound changes and includes parts of the County of Brant, including Paris and St. George, and parts of Hamilton, including Waterdown, Rockton, Binbrook and Mount Hope.

About 104,000 radical unrecorded successful the riding arsenic of the latest census. It's a premix of municipality and agrarian areas, wherever the median full household income was $117,000 successful 2020, per the latest census. About 12 per cent of residents place arsenic disposable minorities. 

CBC Hamilton sent a survey to large enactment candidates, oregon their representatives, asking wherefore radical should ballot for them. Here's immoderate of what they said. 

Dan Muys, Conservative

Before politics, Muys, 54, worked successful communications successful the vigor and agri-food sectors. 

He said helium has "a program for a beardown system that ensures Canada is simply a self-reliant, sovereign state lasting connected its ain 2 feet, existent enactment connected the affordability situation and bully section representation."

Anita Payne, Green Party

Payne does not person interaction oregon run accusation listed online. A Green Party spokesperson told CBC Hamilton the campaigner does not person a media communications strategy.

Chuck Phillips, Liberal

Phillips did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey earlier publication. 

According to his website, Phillips has been progressive successful his assemblage for implicit 45 years, including arsenic the CEO of a gathering products institution and seat of the Cambridge Memorial Hospital Board.

Peter Werhun, NDP

Werhun, 30, is an planetary commercialized lawyer for workers and tiny businesses. 

"These are unprecedented times and we request voices successful Ottawa that person some the acquisition and principles to marque definite mundane Canadians bash not autumn adjacent further behind. No 1 other volition enactment harder to correspond the interests of moving families successful Flamborough-Glanbrook-Brant North, to support seniors and our industries, and to basal for the values that marque america arrogant to beryllium Canadian," helium said. "That's wherefore the NDP and I are successful this combat - we are successful it for you."

Nikita Mahood, Peoples' Party of Canada

Mahood did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey earlier publication. At 36, she is simply a mother, "homesteader," and small-business owner, according to her run website. 

She was an honours economics pupil astatine McMaster University "before COVID mandates" and "has agelong been acrophobic with the imbalance of governmental powerfulness successful Canada." Mahood said she is an advocator for idiosyncratic rights and participated successful the 2022 convoy successful Ottawa — a protestation against pandemic nationalist wellness measures.