Riding profile

Burlington

Federal riding — ON · Suburban · toronto suburbs peel halton

The question

Burlington: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Burlington, a suburban riding in Ontario, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 15-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 52% vote share, against 35% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 0% francophone, 92% anglophone.

Sitting member

Karina Gould

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
17.5
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 52.1%
  • Conservative 34.6%
  • NDP 5.0%
  • Green 1.3%
  • PPC 1.0%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereBurlington 52.1%34.6%5.0%1.3%
Provincial averageOntario 45.6% +6.5 37.5% −2.8 6.4% −1.4 1.6% −0.4
National averageCanada 41.9% +10.2 34.8% −0.2 14.2% −9.2 2.1% −0.9

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Liberal
Margin
15.2 pts
Turnout
76.5%
Margin shift vs current projection
+2.3 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Karina Gould Elected Liberal 43,593 55.8 Parliamentarian
Emily Brown Conservative 31,686 40.6 Professor
Michael Beauchemin NDP 1,549 2.0 Sales Support
Kyle Hutton Green 595 0.8 Digital and Data Organizer
Michael Bator PPC 523 0.7 Software Engineer
Ocean Marshall Other 105 0.1 Unemployed
Paul Harper Other 75 0.1 Engineer

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.4%
  • Anglophone 92.2%
  • Non-francophone (other) 7.4%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
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