Juno News - April 13, 2025


Key swing ridings in the upcoming election

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Milton East Michael Chong Mississauga David Peel
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In this episode of Swing Riding Profiles, we're profiling the key ridings and profiling them based on which ridings we think will determine the election. In this episode, we talk about the importance of the riding of Milton East and Halton Hills South, and why we think it's one of the most important ridings to watch.

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00:00:00.000 doing a series here at Juno News called Swing Riding Profiles. We've highlighted the key
00:00:06.260 ridings and profiled them based on which ridings we think will determine the election. It's going
00:00:12.420 to come down to a handful of swing ridings. It's going to be close, folks. As you can see,
00:00:16.800 even with our neighbor poll, we have the conservatives at 40, the liberals at 38,
00:00:20.900 neck and neck. And it's going to come down to a small handful of votes and a small handful of
00:00:26.220 ridings. I want to talk about one that we just highlighted this week, which is Milton East and
00:00:32.100 Halton Hills South. So you wrote that this is the sort of seat the Conservatives have to win
00:00:37.060 in order to form government. It's also critical for the Liberals to hold if they expect to retain
00:00:43.880 power. So I hope I'm not putting you on the spot too much here, David, but I'm hoping you can help
00:00:49.180 us understand this riding of Milton East, Halton Hills. It's a suburban Toronto. I think it's
00:00:56.040 it's considered suburban or ex-urban, just part of the GTA or just outside of it. And I'm hoping
00:01:01.280 you can sort of walk us through why you think this is one of the most important ridings to watch in
00:01:06.480 the election. I think it's demographically very interesting to watch. I think you have a lot of
00:01:12.160 young families in this riding specifically. It's also on the doorstep of many other GTA ridings,
00:01:17.220 like it's firmly within Halton region, which is on the doorstep of Mississauga and Peel. I think
00:01:22.960 that you have very interesting ethnic communities in there as well um and sort of bridging that
00:01:28.420 urban world divide because when you have communities like georgetown and other small
00:01:32.580 ones on the fringe you're getting out to uh shooting down towards like kitchener area as
00:01:37.980 an example of where this kind of is projecting and out towards uh like michael chong's uh kind
00:01:44.420 of fortress that he's built in the uh from the blue perspective it's seen as a natural stepping
00:01:49.500 point either way. If you're going into the GTA or coming out, it's kind of a very significant
00:01:54.620 hurdle that both parties need to get over if they wish to actually make progress in the other
00:01:58.960 riding surrounding numbers.