Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Hamilton Mountain

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 2:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

• Read each of CBC Hamilton's coverage of the national predetermination here. 

The Liberals flipped Hamilton Mountain successful the 2021 national predetermination erstwhile campaigner Lisa Hepfner bushed the second-place NDP campaigner by 835 votes. Now, erstwhile NDP subordinate of provincial Parliament Monique Taylor volition question to triumph it backmost for the national NDP. 

Prior to Hepfner's victory, the riding had been held by the NDP since 2006. 

Hamilton Mountain is 38 quadrate kilometres and includes municipality and suburban neighbourhoods connected the escarpment that divides Hamilton. As of 2023 bound changes, the riding goes from the borderline of the escarpment successful the northbound to a transmission enactment southbound of Rymal Road. Its occidental boundaries are West 5th Street and Garth Street. Its eastbound bound is Glover Road and the escarpment. 

The colonisation of the riding is astir 116,000. Per the 2021 census, the median full household income was $85,000 successful 2020. About 30 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, organized alphabetically by candidates' past names.

Lisa Hepfner, Liberal

Before politics, Hepfner, 53, was a writer with CHCH News and The Hamilton Spectator. 

"As a quality newsman I spent decades listening to the radical of Hamilton and covering this city's astir momentous events. The skills I gleaned done those years person led maine to beryllium a precise effectual advocator for the Mountain, proven by our galore caller investments successful things similar affordable housing, childcare and dental care," she said. 

"I person besides been a staunch promoter of the alloy manufacture and getting much women into the trades.  Further, [Liberal Leader] Mark Carney is precisely the person Canada needs successful this moment, to support our sovereignty and physique a much resilient and autarkic economy."

Ken Hewitt, Conservative

Ken Hewitt, 57, says he's presently self-employed. He was politician of Haldimand-Norfolk for 3 presumption and was archetypal elected successful 2010.

"I person the acquisition arsenic Mayor for 12 years and I afloat recognize the issues and concerns that Hamiltonians are facing. Concerns astir tariffs, affordability and soaring taxes, failed policies. I cognize done acquisition however to dependable the concerns of my constituents and get results effectively," helium said.

"This predetermination is apt the astir important 1 that radical person faced successful their procreation and we request radical who recognize the needs on with the economics of however to conscionable those needs without chasing businesses and professionals retired of our country."

Monique Taylor, NDP

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

She was an MPP betwixt 2011 and 2025, and served arsenic the NDP Critic for Children, Community, and Social Services. 

"Monique has ever focused her enactment connected ways successful which governments request to measurement up for the radical of Hamilton and is present looking guardant to taking her passionateness and thrust close crossed Canada," her website says.

Bing Wong, People's Party of Canada 

Bing Wong says helium is successful his "early 40s" and works arsenic an entrepreneur focused connected topics including car collision and harm repair. 

"Exit the Uniparty. Accountability for COVID Tyranny. Support the People's Party of Canada to propulsion the Conservative Party backmost to the governmental centre alternatively than allowing the NDP and LPC to propulsion the CPC further near of centre," helium said. 

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Rolf Gerstenberger, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada: Gerstenberger is the erstwhile person of United Steel Workers Local 1005. On Facebook, helium said helium is moving "so that we empower ourselves, based connected lasting up for what we privation for ourselves, our families, Hamilton and Canada. Not for what we are told is bully for us, each based connected concealed deals down our backs portion we are disposable."