Electoral Record
| Canadian federal election, 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Conservative | Rick Dykstra | 23,474 | 45.9% | 1,770 | ||
| Liberal | Walt Lastewka | 14,652 | 28.6% | -6,775 | ||
| New Democratic | George Addision | 9,428 | 18.4% | -2,405 | ||
| Green | Jim Fannon | 3,477 | 6.8% | 1,163 | ||
| Communist | Sam Hammond | 113 | 0.2% | 146 | ||
| Total valid votes | 51,144 | |||||
| Rejected ballots | 161 | |||||
| Turnout | 51,305 | |||||
| Canadian federal election, 2006: St. Catharines | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Rick Dykstra | 21,668 | 37.5 | +2.8 | $78,093.76 | |
| Liberal | Walt Lastewka | 21,424 | 37.0 | -3.4 | $76,408.07 | |
| New Democratic | Jeff Burch | 11,849 | 20.5 | +1.2 | $15,482.42 | |
| Green | Jim Fannon | 2,306 | 4.0 | +0.3 | $991.15 | |
| Christian Heritage | Bill Bylsma | 499 | 0.9 | -0.5 | $8,736.24 | |
| Marxist–Leninist | Elaine Couto | 100 | 0.2 | +0.1 | ||
| Total valid votes | 57,846 | 100.0 | ||||
| Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. | ||||||
| Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Rigby | 14,193 | 42.32 |
| Rick Dykstra | 11,181 | 33.34 |
| Tom Derreck | 8,162 | 24.34 |
| Total valid votes | 33,536 | 100.00 |
Dykstra was elected to the St. Catharines city council for Ward Four (St. Patrick's Ward) in 1991 and 1994.
All federal election information is taken from Elections Canada. Italicized expenditures refer to submitted totals, and are presented when the final reviewed total are not available.
The 1997 municipal results are taken from the Hamilton Spectator, 11 November 1997, B9. The final official results were not significantly different.
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