Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Hamilton East-Stoney Creek

Samantha Beattie · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 12:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The Hamilton East-Stoney Creek riding has been a Liberal stronghold for astir of its existence and represented by a fig of salient Hamiltonians. 

John Munro, who Hamilton's airdrome is named after, was the Hamilton East MP from 1962 to 1980, winning 8 successive elections for the Liberal enactment and serving successful a fig of salient furniture positions. 

Sheila Copps, who had the relation of deputy premier minister, and Bob Bratina, erstwhile Hamilton mayor, are among different notable Liberals elected successful the riding. 

Incumbent Chad Collins won successful 2021 implicit Conservative candidate Ned Kuruc. They will tally again this election. 

In 2023, the riding boundaries changed to encompass much of the Flamborough-Glanbrook country and little of Hamilton Centre. 

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek runs on Lake Ontario to the north, and Niagara Escarpment to the south, arsenic good arsenic encompassing portion of the Mountain between the Red Hill Valley Parkway and Upper Centennial Parkway.  

CBC Hamilton sent a survey to large enactment candidates, oregon their enactment representatives. Their responses, edited for magnitude and clarity, are reflected below.

Jim Boutsikakis, People's Party

A concern owner, Boutsikakis's campaign website says he's "dedicated to warring for the halfway Canadian values of freedom, household and country."  He did not capable retired the survey. 

"Jim remains dedicated to warring for the halfway Canadian values of freedom, family, and country," says his website. "He is simply a patriot warring connected behalf of each Canadians."

Chad Collins, Liberal

Collins, 54, has represented the country since 1995, archetypal arsenic metropolis councillor and past arsenic MP successful 2021. 

"I person spent my beingness successful this riding with the mindset that communities are built from the crushed up," helium wrote successful the survey.

"I emotion knocking connected doors and listening to some the concerns of our residents and their ideas connected however to amended our unthinkable community." 

He was among a radical of MPs who called for then-prime curate Justin Trudeau to measurement down precocious past twelvemonth aft proceeding from constituents that "the Liberal Party presumption quo was not working," Collins wrote successful the survey. He is present supportive of enactment person Mark Carney. 

Ned Kuruc, Conservative

A owe specializer successful Stoney Creek, Kuruc has lived successful the assemblage his full life. 

He did not capable retired the survey. His run website says he's "ready to axe the c tax, physique homes, reconstruct freedom, and bring affordability backmost to Hamilton East-Stoney Creek." 

If elected, helium will "work hard to marque beingness amended and much affordable for families, seniors, caller graduates and tiny businesses," the website says. 

Nayla Mithani, NDP

Mithani is a task manager for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, according to her LinkedIn. She did not capable retired the survey, and did not a biography connected the campaign website astatine the clip of publication. 

She's besides worked arsenic an Ontario NDP campaign organizer and graduated from McMaster University, her LinkedIn illustration says.