Central Elgin

Central Elgin is a township located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada in Elgin County on Lake Erie. It is part of the London census metropolitan area.

History
Central Elgin was formed in 1998 through the amalgamation of the Township of Yarmouth with the Villages of Belmont and Port Stanley.

Communities
The municipality includes the population centres of Port Stanley and Belmont. Other communities include Dexter, Lawton's Corners, Lyndale, Lynhurst, Mapleton, New Sarum, Norman, Sparta, Union, Whites and Yarmouth Centre.

Mayors

 * Bill Walters, 1999
 * David M. Rock, 1999–2006
 * Born June 16, 1948, in St. Thomas, Ontario. He was also chair of the Elgin Group Police Services Board. While he was mayor, there were discussions about proposed new ferry services on Lake Erie and their financial implications.


 * Sylvia Hofhuis, 2006–2010
 * Tom Marks, 2010
 * Bill Walters, 2010–2014
 * David Marr, 2014–2018
 * Sally Martyn, 2018–2022
 * Andrew Sloan, 2022–

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Central Elgin had a population of $13,746$ living in $5,460$ of its $5,845$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $12,607$. With a land area of 279.87 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Education
The community of Sparta has a French-immersion public school. It was an English public school prior to fall 2018.