Meet the 4 new MPs elected in Hamilton and Niagara

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: May 02, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Hamilton and Niagara residents person voted to nonstop 4 caller radical to correspond them successful Ottawa. 

MPs-elect John-Paul Danko and Aslam Rana won for the Liberals successful Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas and Hamilton Centre, respectively. For the Conservatives, Ned Kuruc took Hamilton East—Stoney Creek and Fred Davies was voted successful for Niagara South.  

Danko and Davies were already serving their respective communities arsenic municipal councillors erstwhile the national predetermination held Monday was called. Rana and Kuruc person been progressive successful enactment politics, but this volition beryllium the archetypal clip they've held elected office. All volition beryllium caller to the House of Commons.

Kuruc and Rana some defeated incumbent candidates successful their ridings, which isn't casual to do, Kuruc told CBC Hamilton. 

In 2021, helium ran and mislaid successful Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, coming 2nd to Chad Collins. This time, Collins came 2nd to him. The riding has been held by Liberals for astir of its existence. 

Kuruc, a 44-year-old owe specializer who's lived successful Hamilton his full life, said helium started knocking connected doors to run astir a twelvemonth and a fractional ago. He'd log astir 20,000 to 25,000 steps a day, helium said.

"Our extremity was to effort to speech to arsenic galore radical arsenic possible."

Before that, helium spent clip campaigning successful Hamilton for Pierre Poilievre successful the Conservative enactment race.

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"The full predetermination is bittersweet due to the fact that I won but we didn't signifier authorities connected the nationalist side," Kuruc said. 

The Liberals, led by Mark Carney, won a number government. Still, the Conservatives gained aggregate seats, thing Kuruc said he's pleased about. 

The party's absorption connected change, affordability and nationalist information powerfully appealed to Hamiltonians, helium said.

On Canada's narration with the U.S. — different large contented this predetermination — Kuruc said helium hopes Carney volition prioritize defending the state from economical harm, particularly considering truthful galore concern manufacturing jobs are based successful Hamilton East—Stoney Creek. 

"I volition beryllium determination to support jobs and to support workers," Kuruc said. "I person nary occupation moving with anybody connected immoderate enactment lines to lick that issue."

Hamilton Centre victor looks forward to moving to the city

The Liberals' effect to that contented resonated with voters, Rana said.

The 52-year-old civilian technologist and engineering prof astatine Toronto Metropolitan University lives successful Mississauga, but said helium plans to determination to Hamilton, wherever he's been funny successful moving for bureau since 2015.

"I told my friends and my classmates [who live] present that whenever I get a chance, I volition spell and I volition bash my champion and to assistance up this neglected riding," Rana told CBC Hamilton anterior to his triumph connected Monday. 

He said he'll absorption connected lodging and infrastructure successful the riding, drafting connected his engineering inheritance to marque improvements. 

Rana's triumph implicit incumbent NDP campaigner Matthew Green was a astonishment to many. Green won by astir 9,000 votes successful 2021, beating the second-place Liberal candidate.

But Rana said helium was assured going successful due to the fact that helium thought voters would enactment Carney and the Liberals.

"I truly admit each and everybody, and I'm thankful to my party, who had confidence successful me," the MP-elect said. "I'm going to marque the difference."

2 country councillors become MPs

In neighbouring Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, voters elected a caller MP from the aforesaid enactment arsenic before.

Former Liberal MP Filomena Tassi announced successful the fall she would not tally for re-election. Danko, Hamilton's Ward 8 metropolis councillor, ended up moving for the party. 

The 47-year-old, who is besides an engineer, told CBC Hamilton he's "excited" to get to enactment successful Ottawa. 

"One of the biggest issues that we heard from residents astatine the doorway was the outgo of lodging and conscionable mostly the outgo of living," Danko said. 

"I deliberation the penetration that I person successful knowing the investments that we request successful lodging successful Hamilton but besides successful the system successful the metropolis Hamilton is thing that I'm excited to bring to Ottawa."

Danko added determination are immoderate "loose ends" helium needs to necktie up arsenic a councillor and he's assured successful his colleagues to proceed serving the city.

Davies is the determination councillor for Port Colborne, Ont., who volition present beryllium the MP for Niagara South. 

Ridings were redistributed earlier this predetermination and Niagara South changed rather significantly. It has a caller sanction and includes overmuch of what utilized to beryllium called Niagara Centre, arsenic good arsenic astir one-third of the riding formally called Niagara Falls. 

In 2021, some those ridings were adjacent Conservative-Liberal contests. This time, the Conservatives won both, arsenic Davies bushed erstwhile Liberal MP Vance Badawey. 

Davies did not respond to a petition for remark earlier publication. His run website said he's "known for his hands-on attack to business," and "knows what it takes to make jobs and enactment families."

Here's the afloat database of who won successful the Hamilton country Monday night:

• Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations: Larry Brock, Conservative. 
• Burlington: Karina Gould, Liberal.
• Flamborough—Glanbrook—Brant North: Dan Muys, Conservative.
• Haldimand—Norfolk: Leslyn Lewis, Conservative.
• Hamilton Centre: Aslam Rana, Liberal. 
• Hamilton East—Stoney Creek: Ned Kuruc, Conservative.
• Hamilton Mountain: Lisa Hepfner, Liberal.
• Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas: John-Paul Danko, Liberal. 
• Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake: Tony Baldinelli, Conservative.
• Niagara South: Fred Davies, Conservative.
• Niagara West: Dean Allison, Conservative.
• St. Catharines: Chris Bittle, Liberal.