Hamilton East (provincial electoral district)

For information on the Hamilton East federal electoral district, see Hamilton East (electoral district).

Hamilton East is a former provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 2007, when it was redistributed between the new ridings of Hamilton Centre and Hamilton East—Stoney Creek. It was originally created from the old riding of Hamilton, split in 1894 to create Hamilton East and Hamilton West.

It was considered a working class district.

History

This riding elected the first Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to the Ontario legislature: Samuel Lawrence in the 1934 provincial election. The riding had previously elected Ontario's first ever provincial Labour MLA Allan Studholme in a 1906 by-election. Studholme remained in office until his death in 1919 when he was succeeded in by another Labour MLA, George Grant Halcrow (1919–1923).

It was last represented provincially by Andrea Horwath of the Ontario New Democratic Party. In the 2007 election, Horwath was reelected in the successor riding of Hamilton Centre.

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Election results

Hamilton East by-election, 2004
(Death of Dominic Agostino)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New DemocraticAndrea Horwath 15,185 63.6
LiberalRalph Agostino 6,362 26.6
Progressive ConservativeTara Crugnale 1,772 7.4
GreenRaymond Dartsch 448 1.9 –
IndependentJohn Turmel 120 0.5
Ontario general election, 2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LiberalDominic Agostino 16,015 52.15 -1.58
New DemocraticBob Sutton 9,035 29.42 10.49
Progressive ConservativeSohail Bhatti 4,033 13.13 -9.13
GreenRaymond Dartsch 563 1.83 +0.34
CommunistBob Mann 380 1.24 +0.38
IndependentKelly Greenaway 378 1.23
Family CoalitionMichael Izzotti 304 0.99 -0.17
Ontario general election, 1999
Party Candidate Votes%
LiberalDominic Agostino 17,891 53.73
Progressive ConservativePete Preston 7,414 22.26
New DemocraticBob Sutton 6,304 18.93
GreenJim Howlett 496 1.49
Family CoalitionEdgar Breau 386 1.16
CommunistBob Mann 288 0.86
IndependentJulie Gordon 263 0.79
Natural LawLaureen Amos 258 0.77

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