Everything you need to know to vote in Burlington North—Milton West. Here are your candidates
Burlington-area voters head to the polls April 28 to choose their next member of Parliament in the snap Canadian election.
These are the confirmed candidates running in Burlington North—Milton West:
Naveed Ahmed (NDP) — Ahmed is a Halton public board school trustee.
Nadeem Akbar
(Conservative) — Akbar is an IT consultant specializing in infrastructure and cybersecurity who also ran for the party in 2021.
Adam van Koeverden
(Liberal) — van Koeverden is an incumbent MP for Milton and a former Olympic sprint kayaker.
Charles Zach
(PPC) — Zach was most recently executive director for the National Firearms Association.
The newly redistributed Burlington North—Milton West federal electoral district for the upcoming 2025 Canada election.
This is a new riding created in 2023 by a redistribution of federal electoral districts. The riding includes about half of urban Milton from west of Ontario Street South, a northern section of Burlington from roughly Upper Middle Road, and a sizable section of rural Milton in the north extending to Highway 7.
All-candidates meeting hosted by the Canadian Federation of University Women in Milton.
550 Ontario St. S., Milton
Contact: 1-866-583-5150
Some voters in this new riding used to be in the former electoral district of Oakville North—Burlington, which had Liberal Pam Damoff as MP between 2015 and the time the riding was dissolved.
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