Toronto Centre (provincial electoral district)

It was created in 1999 as Toronto Centre—Rosedale from most of St. George—St. David and parts of St. Andrew—St. Patrick, Fort York, when ridings were redistributed to match their federal counterparts.

From 1999 to 2007 the riding included the area of Toronto from Avenue Road/University Avenue in the west to the Don River and the city limits in the east and the Mount Pleasant Cemetery and the CPR in the north.

In 2007, the riding was abolished and redistributed mostly into Toronto Centre. It lost the area west of Yonge Street and south of College Street plus Toronto Island to Trinity—Spadina. It also gained some parts of Toronto—Danforth as the riding's east border was altered to continue along the Don River past the former city limits to Pottery Road to Bayview Avenue to the CPR. Another boundary change altered the borders around the Rosehill Reservoir.

The Ontario Legislative Building is located within this district.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years		Party
Toronto Centre—Rosedale Riding created from St. Andrew—St. Patrick, St. George—St. David and Fort York
37th	1999–2003	George Smitherman	Liberal
38th	2003–2007	George Smitherman	Liberal
Toronto Centre Riding created from Toronto Centre—Rosedale and Toronto—Danforth
39th	2007–2010	George Smitherman	Liberal
39th	2010–2011	Glen Murray	Liberal
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[1]

Election results

2011-present

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Glen Murray	29,799	58.22	+3.23
	Progressive Conservative	Martin Abell	9,495	18.55	+2.91
	New Democratic	Kate Sellar	8,083	15.79	-9.40
	Green	Mark Daye	2,265	4.42	+1.98
	Libertarian	Judi Falardeau	550	1.07	+0.11
	Freedom	Chris Goodwin	265	0.52	+0.32
	Special Needs	Lada Alekseychuk	200	0.39
	Vegan Environmental	Harvey Rotenburg	187	0.37	+0.17
	Communist	Drew Garvie	183	0.36	+0.04
	The People	Robin Nurse	82	0.16	+0.10
	Canadians' Choice	Bahman Yazdanfar	78	0.15	+0.11
Total valid votes			51,187	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.16
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Glen Murray	25,236	54.94	+7.77
	New Democratic	Cathy Crowe	11,571	25.19	-8.22
	Progressive Conservative	Martin Abell	7,186	15.64	+0.34
	Green	Mark Daye	1,123	2.44	-0.57
	Libertarian	Judi Falardeau	441	0.96	+0.57
	Communist	Cathy Holliday	146	0.32
	Independent	Harvey Rotenberg	93	0.20
	Freedom	Christopher Goodwin	92	0.20	-0.03
	People's Political Party	Phil Sarazen	29	0.06
	Independent	Bahman Yazdanfar	19	0.04
	Independent	Anne Abbott	withdrawn
Total valid votes			45,936	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			286	0.62
Turnout			46,222	48.42
Eligible voters			95,466
	Liberal hold		Swing		+8.00
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

2010 by-election

On January 6, 2010, a provincial by-election was called in Toronto Centre^[4] to replace George Smitherman, who had resigned as MPP to run for mayor of Toronto.^[5] The by-election took place on February 4, 2010.^[6]

Ontario provincial by-election, February 4, 2010 (Resignation of George Smitherman)^[7] Resignation of George Smitherman
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Glen Murray	12,289	47.17	-0.58
	New Democratic	Cathy Crowe	8,705	33.41	+14.55
	Progressive Conservative	Pamela Taylor	3,985	15.30	-5.11
	Green	Stefan Premdas	783	3.01	-6.65
	Libertarian	Heath Thomas	101	0.39	-1.10
	Independent	John Turmel	66	0.25
	Independent	Raj Rama	63	0.24
	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	61	0.23
Total valid votes			26,204	100.00

1999-2007

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	George Smitherman	21,585	47.75	−5.03
	Progressive Conservative	Pamela Taylor	9,225	20.41	−1.63
	New Democratic	Sandra Gonzalez	8,528	18.86	−1.28
	Green	Mike McLean	4,366	9.66	5.82
	Libertarian	Michael Green	675	1.49
	Special Needs	Danish Ahmed	256	0.57
	Independent	Gary Leroux	213	0.47
	Communist	Johan Boyden	200	0.44
	Independent	Philip Fernandez	159	0.35	−0.37

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	George Smitherman	23,872	52.78	+13.88
	Progressive Conservative	John Adams	9,968	22.04	-7.84
	New Democratic	Gene Lara	9,112	20.14	-11.34
	Green	Gabriel Draven	1,739	3.84	+2.98
	Independent	Philip Fernandez	324	0.72
	Freedom	Silvio Ursomarzo	218	0.48	-0.27
Total valid votes			45,233	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	George Smitherman	17,756	38.90
	Progressive Conservative	Durhane Wong-Rieger	13,640	29.88
	Independent	John Sewell	8,822	19.33
	New Democratic	Helen Breslauer	4,019	8.80
	Green	Joseph Cohen	392	0.86
	Freedom	Paul McKeever	344	0.75
	Independent	Mike Ryner	236	0.52
	Family Coalition	Bill Whatcott	232	0.51
	Natural Law	Ron Parker	205	0.45
Total valid votes			45,646	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	22,204	50.2
	Mixed member proportional	22,070	49.8
	Total valid votes	44,274	100.0

References

↑
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For George Smitherman's Legislative Assembly information see "George Smitherman, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Glen Murray's Legislative Assembly information see "Glen Murray, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
↑ "General Election Results by District, 094 Toronto Centre". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Toronto Centre" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
↑ "Provincial Byelection Called in Toronto Centre", Premier of Ontario - Newsroom, January 6, 2010.
↑ "Toronto Mayoral Campaign Officially Underway", CBC News, January 4, 2010.
↑ Toronto Star.com
↑ "Byelection to replace Smitherman called for Feb. 4". Toronto Star, January 6, 2010.

Sources

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

External links

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