Kitchener South—Hespeler (French: Kitchener-Sud—Hespeler) is a federal electoral district in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since the 2015 election.

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Kitchener South—Hespeler

Ontario electoral district
Kitchener South—Hespeler in relation to southern Ontario ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Valerie Bradford Liberal
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	97,673
Electors (2015)	72,359
Area (km²)[1]	111
Pop. density (per km²)	879.9
Census division(s)	Waterloo
Census subdivision(s)	Cambridge, Kitchener

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Kitchener South—Hespeler was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts as a result of a redistribution process conducted by Elections Canada from 2012 to 2013.^[2]

Following the 2011 Census and a Canadian Parliament decision to increase the number of Federal electoral districts from 308 to 338, Elections Canada conducted a redistribution process that began with the establishment of Electoral Boundaries Commissions for each province in 2012. As a result of the work of the Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario, which was concluded in July 2013, the Kitchener South—Hespeler district was created from parts of the Kitchener—Conestoga, Kitchener Centre, and Cambridge electoral districts.^[3]

The new Kitchener South—Hespeler electoral district includes:

• The portion of the City of Cambridge lying northerly of Ontario Highway 401
• The portion of the City of Kitchener lying:
  • Southerly of the Conestoga Parkway
  • Easterly of Fischer-Hallman Road
  • Westerly of Ontario Highway 8 between the Conestoga Parkway and Fairway Road
  • Westerly of the border between the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener between Fairway Road and Ontario Highway 401

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[4]

Ethnic groups: 63.5% White, 13.3% South Asian, 5.9% Black, 3.2% Latin American, 2.6% Indigenous, 2.0% Southeast Asian, 2.0% Arab, 1.7% Chinese, 1.5% Filipino, 1.4% West Asian

Languages: 65.6% English, 3.4% Punjabi, 2.6% Spanish, 1.8% Arabic, 1.5% Portuguese, 1.3% Gujarati, 1.3% Urdu, 1.1% Serbian, 1.1% Romanian, 1.0% Polish, 1.0% French

Religions: 52.0% Christian (23.8% Catholic, 3.5% Christian Orthodox, 2.8% Anglican, 2.2% United Church, 2.2% Lutheran, 1.8% Baptist, 1.8% Pentecostal, 1.7% Presbyterian, 12.2% Other), 7.8% Muslim, 4.7% Hindu, 4.1% Sikh, 1.0% Buddhist, 29.4% None

Median income: $42,800 (2020)

Average income: $53,600 (2020)

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• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada