Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 12:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

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

Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake is simply a riding with a caller sanction and importantly antithetic boundaries pursuing a 2023 redistribution. But the candidates should beryllium familiar. 

In 2021, Conservative campaigner Tony Baldinelli took Niagara Falls with 38 per cent of the ballot up of second-place Liberal Andrea Kaiser at 33 per cent. The 2 are acceptable for a rematch this election. 

Voters person elected Conservatives consistently since 2004. The bound encompasses overmuch of what utilized to beryllium called Niagara Falls successful northeast Niagara Region. It nary longer contains Fort Erie, Ont., which is present portion of Niagara South. 

The mixed urban-rural riding mostly includes the municipalities of Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake. It borders Lake Ontario to the North and the United States to the east.

The median full household income of residents successful the riding was $78,000, per the latest census. About 20 per cent of residents identified arsenic disposable minorities. The 342-square-kilometre riding has a colonisation of astir 114,000. 

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.

Dinah Althorpe, People's Party of Canada

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

A Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., resident, Althorpe believes "health comes earlier wealth," according to her run website. She said she is "deeply committed" to values including women's rights, state of look and aesculapian rights. 

Tony Baldinelli, Conservative

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

"After 10 failed years of Liberal leadership, Canadians from each walks of beingness are rallying down our communal consciousness Conservative connection of putting Canada First-for a change," helium said connected Facebook, adding helium and his enactment volition "keep pushing for a brighter aboriginal for america all."

Andrea Kaiser, Liberal

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

Her website says she "has spent her big beingness moving to turn our section system and fortify our community" arsenic a concern person moving successful the vino industry, Niagara determination councillor, erstwhile three-term municipal councillor, and progressive assemblage volunteer.

"Through her astir 15 years successful section politics, she earned a estimation for moving with radical from antithetic governmental parties to present existent alteration for Niagara. She is capable to bring radical unneurotic due to the fact that she values section democracy, honesty — and results."

Shannon Mitchell, NDP

Shannon Mitchell, 38, worked with Ontario NDP MPP Wayne Gates arsenic a constituency assistant, and is simply a two-term District School Board of Niagara trustee, archetypal elected successful 2018.

"Canada indispensable put successful the things that marque america arrogant to beryllium Canadian—to support our future. That means lasting up to for-profit, American-style backstage healthcare and strengthening our nationalist healthcare system," a typical for Mitchell said. "[Mitchell] knows that moving radical and seniors merit existent change—affordable homes, nutrient connected the table, and a aboriginal they tin judge in."

Celia Taylor, Green Party

Celia Taylor, 63, owns a concern that offers legal education and resources.

The Greens are acrophobic with the outgo of living, affordable housing, keeping the situation harmless for aboriginal generations, and providing doctors for each Canadian, Taylor said. "I americium experiencing a batch of what mundane radical successful Canada are experiencing specified arsenic paying rent, being capable to spend food, uncovering dependable enactment that volition [pay] the bills. I tin subordinate to their struggles due to the fact that I americium besides experiencing the aforesaid struggles."

Also Running:

• Yawar Anwar, Centrist Party of Canada: Anwar's enactment level includes "defending Canada against Trump's aggression," cutting income taxes by 50 per cent and fixing healthcare and housing.  
• Daniel Shakhmundes, Libertarian Party of Canada: Shakhmundes' website said helium is simply a machine idiosyncratic and entrepreneur based successful Niagara-on-the-Lake. His "dedication to idiosyncratic liberties and technological innovation aligns with the principles of the Libertarian Party of Canada, which seeks to trim governmental responsibilities and expenses, empowering individuals to negociate their lives done escaped and voluntary exchange."