Juanita Nathan | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament forPickering—Brooklin | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Jennifer O'Connell |
| Markham City Councillor | |
| In office November 15, 2022 – May 14, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Khalid Usman |
| Succeeded by | Nimisha Patel |
| Constituency | Ward 7 |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Alma mater | Brock University |
| Website | juanitanathan |
Juanita NathanMP is a Canadian politician from theLiberal Party of Canada. She was electedMember of Parliament forPickering—Brooklin in the2025 Canadian federal election.[1]
Nathan ran for her party's nomination in the2017 Markham—Thornhill federal by-election but withdrew in protest of the Liberal Party's handling of the nomination process.[2][3]
She was chair and current York Region District School Board (YRDSB) trustee.[4] She was a city councillor forMarkham City Council from November 15, 2022 to May 14, 2025.[5][6]
She is ofTamil Canadian heritage.[7]
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Pickering—Brooklin | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Juanita Nathan | 38,578 | 54.16 | +6.00 | ||||
| Conservative | Alicia Vianga | 29,320 | 41.16 | +6.90 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jamie Nye | 1,838 | 2.58 | -10.90 | ||||
| People's | Lisa Robinson | 639 | 0.90 | -2.95 | ||||
| Green | Andrea Wood | 535 | 0.75 | +0.50 | ||||
| Centrist | Zainab Rana | 322 | 0.45 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 71,232 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 371 | |||||||
| Turnout | 71,603 | 71.12 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 100,681 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | -0.45 | ||||||
| Source:CBC[8],Elections Canada[9] | ||||||||
| 2022 Markham election,Ward 7[10] | ||
| Council candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Juanita Nathan | 5,388 | 47.75 |
| Nimisha Patel | 2,648 | 23.47 |
| Shahzad Habib | 1,955 | 17.33 |
| Neetu Gupta | 1,292 | 11.45 |
| 2018 Ontario general election:Markham—Thornhill | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Logan Kanapathi | 18,943 | 50.45 | +15.60 | ||||
| Liberal | Juanita Nathan | 9,160 | 24.40 | –26.97 | ||||
| New Democratic | Cindy Hackelberg | 8,010 | 21.33 | +11.14 | ||||
| Green | Caryn Bergmann | 859 | 2.29 | –0.04 | ||||
| Libertarian | David Nadler | 408 | 1.09 | N/A | ||||
| Independent | Jeff Kuah | 168 | 0.45 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes | 37,548 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservativenotional gain fromLiberal | Swing | +21.29 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Ontario[11] | ||||||||
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