Lanark—Frontenac
federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 2025)
Lanark—Frontenac (formerly Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston) is a federal electoral district in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
Geography
The riding consists of the entirety of Lanark County (including Perth and Smiths Falls) and all of Frontenac County north of the city of Kingston.
History
Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015. The riding was created out of parts of Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (79%), Carleton—Mississippi Mills (13%) and Kingston and the Islands (8%). The riding was originally intended to be named Lanark—Frontenac.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, this riding will was renamed Lanark—Frontenac from Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston. This came into effect at the 2025 federal election. It lost all of its territory in the city of Kingston in the process.
The public source identifies “Lanark—Frontenac” as federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 2025). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lanark, Frontenac and federal.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134593426. Authority coordinates are 44.901, -76.684. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2022.
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