It has shrunk significantly since the last election, with the old Carleton–Mississippi Mills riding losing 20 per cent of its territory to Carleton in the south and 35 per cent to Lanark–Frontenac–Kingston in the west.
On average, people in the riding have a substantially higher income than other parts of the region and a higher-than-average proportion of residents are under the age of 15. The riding is also ethnically diverse, with a particularly high percentage of people who identify as Chinese. “