Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 12:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

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

This westbound Hamilton riding volition beryllium represented by a caller subordinate of parliament nary substance who wins. 

Former MP Filomena Tassi announced she would not tally for re-election successful the fall, citing a "deeply personal" reason. Now, large enactment candidates moving to regenerate her see Hamilton metropolis councillor John-Paul Danko and Erika Alexander, granddaughter of Lincoln Alexander, Canada's archetypal Black subordinate of the House of Commons and archetypal Black lieutenant politician of Ontario.

As of a 2023 riding bound redistribution, Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas spans astir 100 quadrate kilometres from Highway 403 successful the eastbound to Highway 52 successful the west. It besides includes portion of the westbound Mountain neighbourhood. The riding's confederate bound is an exurban transmission enactment and its bluish bound is simply a Canadian National Railway way northbound of Governor's Road. 

When she was elected successful 2015, Tassi was the archetypal national Liberal to triumph successful Hamilton since 2004. Prior to that, voters successful the riding country supported the NDP. In the 2021 wide election, Tassi won astir 44 per cent of the vote. 

Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas contains dense, mixed-income neighbourhoods successful the aged metropolis of Hamilton arsenic good arsenic wealthier suburban and exurban neighbourhoods successful the erstwhile townships of Ancaster and Dundas. It besides includes McMaster University, Mohawk College and Redeemer University. About 120,000 radical unrecorded successful the area.

The median full household income successful the riding was $101,000 successful 2020, per the 2021 census. About 27 per cent of residents place themselves arsenic disposable minorities.

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

Erika Alexander, Conservative

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

On Facebook, she wrote that it's wide "Canadians privation existent change," arsenic good arsenic "a little outgo of surviving and to consciousness harmless and unafraid successful their communities," — a alteration she says Conservatives volition bring about.

Georgia Beauchemin, Green Party 

Georgia Beauchemin, 29, is simply a full-time pupil successful her 4th twelvemonth studying disabilities studies and governmental subject astatine Toronto Metropolitan University. She studied recreation therapy and acquisition enactment astatine Mohawk College and worked arsenic an acquisition assistant. 

"Voters should beryllium choosing idiosyncratic who cares astir them. My pupil and enactment beingness person each been focused connected the needs of different people," Beauchemin said. "The Green Party is the earthy location for maine and is the earthy enactment to beryllium voting for if you are acrophobic astir climate, affordable housing, taxation fairness, the rights of marginalized radical and moving toward proportional practice successful Parliament."

John-Paul Danko, Liberal

Danko, 47, is the Ward 8 metropolis councillor and a licensed nonrecreational engineer. 

"I americium precise arrogant of the enactment I person done astatine the City of Hamilton. On Council, I leveraged connected my 20 years of backstage assemblage acquisition arsenic a structural technologist and worked collaboratively with my colleagues to amended our Ambitious City," Danko said. "I made a constituent of moving crossed enactment lines with our provincial and national representatives. I judge successful the Team Hamilton attack to authorities and look guardant to continuing to instrumentality a collaborative attack to ensuring our city's prosperity."

Roberto Henriquez, NDP

Roberto Henriquez, 37, is simply a labour and quality rights lawyer. 

"I combat for my clients, working-class Canadians, each azygous day. During this predetermination wherever moving families are taking a backmost spot to tariffs, Trump, and trade, I perpetrate to keeping the absorption connected Canadians arsenic a whole," helium said. "I perpetrate to advocating for each Canadians and advancing opportunities for each families, some successful our riding and crossed Canada."

Ava Sharavi, People's Party of Canada

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

On her run website, Sharavi describes herself arsenic a "member of the younger generation," who understands challenges similar the rising outgo of living. She said she is acrophobic astir "uncontrolled immigration," and that Canadian nine has been weakened by authorities overreach, overseas power and "social engineering successful acquisition and media."

Also Running:

Jim Enos, Christian Heritage Party of Canada: Enos's enactment bills itself arsenic Canada's lone "100 per cent pro-life" governmental party. His website says helium has spent 30 years "participating astatine nationalist tables influencing nationalist policy," and is simply a "vocal and nationalist fig with a agelong grounds of promoting and defending family, beingness and freedom." Enos has served arsenic a spokesperson and Ontario subdivision president for his party, including for a caller lawsuit successful which the City of Hamilton declined to tally an advertisement for the party, deeming it harmful to transgender people.