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Canada Votes 2025: Lanark-Frontenac

The riding in the middle of eastern Ontario no longer includes north Kingston.

Kingston is no longer part of riding in the middle of eastern Ontario, or its name

A riding in the middle of eastern Ontario.
Lanark-Frontenac is still geographically quite big, though it has lost part of the City of Kingston. (Elections Canada)

The riding in the middle of eastern Ontario no longer includes north Kingston.

The regular independent boundary review that followed the 2021 census moved an area of the city north of Highway 401 to Kingston and the Islands.

Check with Elections Canada to confirm your riding.

What used to be Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston is now Lanark-Frontenac, stretching from Ottawa city limits to Hastings County and including places such as Carleton Place, Perth and Sharbot Lake.

Highway 7 runs roughly through the middle of it.

Conservative Scott Reid has been the area's MP since 2000, tying him with riding neighbour Cheryl Gallant in Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke for the longest-serving local MP.

Reid fell just short of 50 per cent of the vote in 2021, winning by about 14,000 votes.

Campus advance voting is April 13 to 18, general advance voting is April 18 to 21 and the deadline to apply to vote by mail is April 22. Elections Canada has more information on voting options ahead of election day on Monday, April 28.

Here are the candidates so far. The deadline to register is April 7 and this story will be updated as candidates are confirmed.

Michelle Foxton, Liberal

Foxton is a lawyer running a Kingston law firm and a former South Frontenac municipal councillor. She lives in Hartington.

Shane Peters, People's Party

The party hasn't shared a biography for this candidate.

Scott Reid, Conservative

Before his time as MP, he advised Reform Party leader Preston Manning and taught history at a university in Australia. He is on the board of Giant Tiger, which his father founded.

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