Meet the 2025 candidates in the Thunder Bay—Superior North riding
The Thunder Bay—Superior North riding includes the north side of Thunder Bay, as well as a number of municipalities along the north shore of Lake Superior including Marathon, Schreiber, Terrace Bay and Nipigon. It also includes the vast Greenstone municipality.
The riding boundaries also include several First Nations communities, such as Ginoogaming, Aroland, Long Lake 58 and Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek.
Thunder Bay—Superior North covers an area of about 93,000 square kilometres, and as of the 2016 Census, had a population of just over 70,000.
The candidates in alphabetical order by surname are as follows:
Rick Dumas, PC
Rick Dumas is the long-serving mayor of Marathon, Ont. He was acclaimed for his fifth term in 2022. He also runs the Thunder Bay District Municipal League. Dumas has served as a vice-president with the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) and a board member with the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).
Brian Hamilton, Liberal
While Brian Hamilton is a first-time provincial election candidate, he has previous experience in municipal politics. He was elected as a Thunder Bay city councillor for McKellar Ward in 2018. He is currently in his second term.
Hamilton has also owned several businesses in the city and is the president of the Bay & Algoma Business Association.
John Northey, Green
John Northey was previously the Green Party candidate for Thunder Bay—Atikokan in the 2014 and 2018 provincial elections.
Lise Vaugeois, NDP
Current incumbent Lise Vaugeois was elected in 2022. Vaugeois previously ran in 2018, but finished second to Liberal Michael Gravelle who had held the seat since he was first elected in 1995.
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