This new southern Ontario riding takes in the eastern part of Hamilton and part of Stoney Creek.
The boundaries are Lake Ontario in the north, the Niagara escarpment in the south, Ottawa Street and Mountain Brow Boulevard in the west and beyond Fifty Road in the east.
Manufacturing and the service sector are major industries. The local economy is sustained by light industries and service companies feeding off the steel industry in Hamilton and the automotive industry in St. Catharines.
Close to a third of the population are immigrants and 10 per cent of residents are of Italian origin. Average family income is $59,120 and unemployment is 6.7 per cent.
The riding of Hamilton East-Stoney Creek was created in 2004 from 58 per cent of Hamilton East and 53 per cent of the Stoney Creek riding. The Stoney Creek area was formerly the Lincoln riding.
