Local candidates in the Ontario election across Waterloo Region, Guelph
Posted Feb 11, 2025 07:15:13 AM.
Last Updated Feb 25, 2025 12:20:54 PM.
It’s coming to the end of the snap provincial election, and the whirlwind campaign has many candidates vying for the vote in Waterloo Region.
With topics like housing, the economy, health care and poverty top of mind for many people, MPP hopefuls are focused on getting their message out before voters head to the polls on Feb. 27. It is the first time the province is seeing a winter election in more than a century.
With a number of seats up for grabs, all four main party leaders have already made stops in the region.
Here are the candidates running in the area:
Kitchener—Conestoga
- Mike Harris Jr. – Incumbent (PC)
- Joe Gowing – Liberal
- Jodi Szimanski – NDP
- Brayden Wagenaar – Green
- Jim Karahalios – New Blue Party
- Patrick Doucette – Ontario Party
Kitchener Centre
- Aislinn Clancy – Incumbent (Green)
- Rob Elliott – PC
- Brooklin Wallis – NDP
- Colleen James – Liberals
- Paul Simoes – New Blue Party
- Sebastian Butnar-Stoica – Ontario Party
- Christopher Nuhn – Independent
Kitchener South—Hespeler
- Jess Dixon – Incumbent (PC)
- Jeff Donkersgoed – NDP
- Ismail Mohamed – Liberals
- Jessica Riley – Green
- John Soule – New Blue Party
Waterloo
- Catherine Fife – Incumbent (NDP)
- Clayton Moore – Liberals
- Peter Turkington – PC
- Shefaza Esmail – Green
- Suja Biber – New Blue Party
- James Schulz – Libertarian
- Peter House – Electoral Reform Party
- Chris Martin – Ontario Party
Cambridge
- Brian Riddell – Incumbent (PC)
- Rob Deutschmann – Liberals
- Marjorie Knight – NDP
- Carla Johnson – Green
- Belinda Karahalios – New Blue Party
Guelph
- Mike Schreiner – Incumbent (Green)
- Cameron Spence – NDP
- Mustafa Zuberi – Liberal
- Robert Coole – PC
- Carina Fraser – New Blue Party
Wellington—Halton Hills
- Alex Hilson – Liberals
- Stephen Kitras – New Blue Party
- Ron Patava – Consensus Ontario Party
- Joseph Racinsky – PC
- Bronwynne Wilton – Green
- Simone Kent – NDP
- Jason Medland – Ontario Party
- Former Incumbent (Ted Arnott) not running
