Jess Dixon
Jess Dixon | |
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 Dixon in 2024 | |
| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Kitchener South—Hespeler | |
| Assumed office June 2, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Amy Fee |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Residence | Cambridge, Ontario |
Jess Dixon MPP is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. She represents the riding of Kitchener South—Hespeler as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.[1]
Dixon is currently the Parliamentary Assistant to Charmaine Williams, the Associate Minister of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity. She is a member of Standing Committee on Justice Policy and standing Committee on Public Accounts.[2]
Before politics
Dixon graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Philosophy and attended law school at the University of Ottawa. As a student, she worked in the Ministry of the Attorney General and then full-time as an Assistant Crown Attorney upon being called to the bar in 2014. After being called to the bar, she moved to Cambridge to work as a provincial Crown attorney in the Kitchener courthouse.[3][4]
Electoral record
| 2022 Ontario general election: Kitchener South—Hespeler | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Jess Dixon | 13,768 | 39.91 | +1.05 | $72,110 | |||
| New Democratic | Joanne Weston | 9,118 | 26.43 | −10.62 | $57,359 | |||
| Liberal | Ismail Mohamed | 5,629 | 16.32 | +1.41 | $40,062 | |||
| Green | David Weber | 3,993 | 11.58 | +4.05 | $18,207 | |||
| New Blue | John Teat | 1,436 | 4.16 | $3,952 | ||||
| Ontario Party | David Gillies | 552 | 1.60 | $182 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 34,496 | 99.23 | +0.76 | $115,430 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 266 | 0.77 | -0.76 | |||||
| Turnout | 34,762 | 42.16 | -13.66 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 81,506 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +5.83 | ||||||
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References
- ^ "PC Jess Dixon wins in Kitchener South—Hespeler". Toronto Star. June 2, 2022. ISSN 0319-0781.
- ^ "Jess Dixon | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Meet Jess Dixon". Jess Dixon, MPP. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Fraser, Justine (May 4, 2022). "GETTING TO KNOW: Kitchener South-Hespeler Progressive Conservative candidate Jess Dixon". Cambridge Today. Retrieved 20 July 2022.