Welland Info

Welland is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988, and since 2004. It first elected a member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election. Its population in 2006 was 112,875.
The current electoral district was created in 2003: 74.9% of the riding came from Niagara Centre riding, 22.5% from ErieᐠLincoln and 2.7% from Niagara Falls riding.
Welland riding consists of the cities of Welland, Thorold, and Port Colborne, the Township of Wainfleet, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and east along Glendale Avenue to the eastern city limit.
Welland riding was originally created in 1867 by the British North America Act. It consisted initially of the Townships of Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Stamford, Thorold,... ...