Canadian federal election results in Central Ontario

The region is the central section of Southern Ontario, mainly comprising the rural area around Lake Simcoe.

This has traditionally been the most conservative region of Ontario, in sharp contrast to the Greater Toronto Area to the south.

The citizens of the region are mostly white, Protestant, and agrarian, with a large number of social conservatives.

However, due to massive Reform-PC vote-splitting, the Liberals swept the region during the Chrétien era.

[1] The Liberals flipped Northumberland with a razor-thin 28 votes majority over the Progressive Conservatives, who won the other 8 seats.