Introduction
Carol R. Hughes MP (born November 26, 1958 in Val Caron, Ontario) is a Canadian politician, who has represented the electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing in the House of Commons of Canada since 2008. She is a member of the New Democratic Party.
Prior to being elected, she worked as a staff representative for the Canadian Labour Congress. She ran as the NDP's candidate in the 2004 election and the 2006 election, losing to Liberal incumbent Brent St. Denis both times.
She had told the press that she would not run in the 2008 election, but changed her mind after she stopped in Blind River for dinner on her way home from a Canadian Labour Congress meeting, and a couple she had never met approached her and encouraged her to run again. She won the riding in that election, and was re-elected in the 2011 election.
Hughes endorsed Niki Ashton in the 2012 NDP leadership election, and Charlie Angus in the 2017 leadership election.
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 16,883 | 41.6 | +1.71 | ||||
| Conservative | Dave Williamson | 10,625 | 26.2 | +2.52 | ||||
| Liberal | Heather Wilson | 9,879 | 24.3 | -9.74 | ||||
| Green | Max Chapman | 2,192 | 5.4 | +3.09 | ||||
| People's | Dave Delisle | 887 | 2.2 | new | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Le Marquis de Marmalade | 123 | 0.3 | - | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 40,591 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 384 | |||||||
| Turnout | 40,975 | 62.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 65,420 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -0.41 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 16,516 | 39.92 | −10.01 | $79,801.31 | |||
| Liberal | Heather Wilson | 14,111 | 34.11 | +19.66 | $36,962.72 | |||
| Conservative | André Robichaud | 9,820 | 23.73 | −8.77 | $54,344.43 | |||
| Green | Calvin John Orok | 927 | 2.24 | −0.84 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,374 | 100.00 | $247,218.89 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 161 | 0.39 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 41,535 | 66.32 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 62,625 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -14.84 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 18,747 | 51.73 | +6.24 | – | |||
| Conservative | Ray Sturgeon | 10,943 | 30.19 | +12.55 | – | |||
| Liberal | François Cloutier | 5,375 | 14.83 | -17.70 | – | |||
| Green | Lorraine Rekmans | 1,212 | 3.34 | -0.98 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 36,242 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 179 | 0.49 | ||||||
| Turnout | 36,421 | 62.76 | ||||||
| New Democratic Party hold | Swing | -3.2 | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 15,249 | 45.49 | +10.98 | $91,893 | |||
| Liberal | Brent St. Denis | 10,902 | 32.53 | -5.65 | $90,379 | |||
| Conservative | Dianne Musgrove | 5,914 | 17.64 | -5.70 | $8,989 | |||
| Green | Lorraine Rekmans | 1,451 | 4.32 | +1.65 | $5,448 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 33,516 | 100.00 | $97,228 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 175 | 0.52 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,691 | 56.53 | ||||||
| New Democratic Party gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.3 | ||||||
* Preliminary results
| 2006 Canadian federal election: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Brent St. Denis | 14,652 | 38.18 | −2.76 | $52,836 | |||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 13,244 | 34.51 | +2.82 | $51,642 | |||
| Conservative | Ian West | 8,957 | 23.34 | +0.13 | $65,745 | |||
| Green | Stan Hutchinson | 1,025 | 2.67 | −1.40 | $647 | |||
| First Peoples National | Will Morin | 338 | 0.88 | – | $829 | |||
| Independent | Donald Polmateer | 164 | 0.43 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes | 38,380 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 216 | 0.56 | ||||||
| Turnout | 38,596 | 63.99 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 60,311 | |||||||
| Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Brent St. Denis | 14,276 | 40.94 | |||||
| New Democratic | Carol Hughes | 11,051 | 31.69 | |||||
| Conservative | Blaine Armstrong | 8,093 | 23.21 | |||||
| Green | Lindsay Killen | 1,449 | 4.16 | |||||
| Total | 34,869 | – | ||||||