Aris Babikian

Aris Babikian MPP
Արիս Պապիկեան
Babikian in 2018
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Agincourt
Incumbent
Assumed office June 7, 2018
Preceded by	Soo Wong
Personal details
Born	1953 or 1954 (age 72–73)
Party	Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Occupation	citizenship judge

Aris Babikian MPP (Armenian: Արիս Պապիկեան) is a Canadian politician. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, he has represented the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2018.

Biography

Babikian grew up in Aleppo, Syria, then lived in Beirut, Lebanon. He relocated to Canada in 1978 during the Lebanese Civil War, and has lived in Scarborough—Agincourt since 1991. He had served as citizenship and immigration advisor to the Armenian Community Centre in Toronto, and as president of the Armenian National Federation of Canada. He was first appointed as a citizenship judge in 2009, and served a second term from 2012 to 2015.

He ran in the 2018 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Scarborough—Agincourt, and was elected to the Ontario Legislature by winning just over 50% of the vote, defeating the incumbent Liberal candidate Soo Wong and breaking 30 years of Liberal representation in the riding. He also became the first Canadian of Armenian descent elected to the Ontario Legislature. In the 42nd Parliament he served as vice-chair of the standing committees on Justice Policy, Social Policy, and Government Agencies, and chair of the standing committee on Regulations and Private Bills.

He faced Soo Wong again in the 2022 provincial election, this time defeating her by a narrower margin to be re-elected in Scarborough—Agincourt; he chaired the standing committee on the Interior in the 43rd Parliament. He defeated Liberal candidate Peter Yuen in the 2025 election, and was named parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism.

Electoral record

2018 Ontario general election: Scarborough—Agincourt
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Aris Babikian	18,582	50.40	+15.88
	Liberal	Soo Wong	10,429	28.29	-21.44
	New Democratic	Tasleem Riaz	6,434	17.45	+5.66
	Green	Lydia West	635	1.72	-0.88
	Libertarian	Mark Sinclair	244	0.66	N/A
	Independent	Jude Coutinho	189	0.51	N/A
	Moderate	Rubina Ansary	148	0.40	N/A
	Trillium	Carlos Lacuna	118	0.32	N/A
	People's Political Party	Badih Rawdah	92	0.25	N/A
Total valid votes			36,871	100.0
	Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal		Swing		+18.66
Source: Elections Ontario

2022 Ontario general election: Scarborough—Agincourt
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Aris Babikian	14,040	49.03	−1.37	$73,607
	Liberal	Soo Wong	10,672	37.27	+8.98	$34,013
	New Democratic	Benjamin Lee Truong	2,512	8.77	−8.68	$5,939
	Green	Jacqueline Scott	628	2.19	+0.47	$0
	Ontario Party	Donny Morgan	492	1.72		$8,379
	New Blue	Rane Vega	292	1.02		$2,200
Total valid votes/expense limit			28,636	99.45	+0.48	$102,205
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			159	0.55	-0.48
Turnout			28,795	39.43	-11.92
Eligible voters			72,891
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−5.18
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on May 18, 2023. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on May 21, 2023.