Trinity—Spadina

For the provincial electoral district, see Trinity—Spadina (provincial electoral district).

Trinity—Spadina
Ontario electoral district
Trinity—Spadina in relation to the other Toronto ridings (2003 boundaries)
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	2013
First contested	1988
Last contested	2014^[1]
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)^[2]	144,733
Electors (2011)	96,793
Area (km²)^[3]	18.55
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Map of Trinity-Spadina

Trinity—Spadina was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015.

It generally encompassed the western portion of Downtown Toronto.

Its federal Member of Parliament (MP) was Olivia Chow of the New Democratic Party. She defeated Tony Ianno of the Liberal Party of Canada in the January 23, 2006 election. On March 12, 2014, Chow resigned from her seat in order to run for the 2014 Toronto mayoral election, and the seat was won by Adam Vaughan, in a by-election. The riding has long been a battle ground between the NDP and the Liberals, with the Liberals recently winning both federally and provincially.

Major landmarks within the riding included the western portion of the University of Toronto, the CN Tower, Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), Air Canada Centre, the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 299 Queen Street West, the Toronto Eaton Centre, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto City Hall, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Christie Pits, Trinity Bellwoods Park, the southern portion of Bay Street and Palmerston Boulevard.

The riding contained Toronto's Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, and Little Portugal. The northern section of the riding was the Annex district, while the eastern edge contained part of the University of Toronto and thousands of students.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2011 Census
Average household income (2010): $86,895
Median household income (2010): $60,659
Median income (2010): $34,761
Unemployment: 7.3%
Language, mother tongue (2011): English 61.2%, Chinese 13.0%, Portuguese 4.4%, French 2.8%, Spanish 2.1%, Italian 1.8%, Korean 1.4%, Arabic 1.4%
Religion (2011): Christian 42.9% (Catholic 24.4%, Anglican 3.6%, Christian Orthodox 2.5%, United Church 2.5%, Presbyterian 1.3%, Other 8.3%), Muslim 4.2%, Jewish 4.1%, Buddhist 3.4%, Hindu 1.8%, No religion 42.5%.
Ethnic groups (2011): White 61.8%, Chinese 16.0%, South Asian 5.1%, Black 3.6%, Korean 1.8%, Filipino 1.8%, Latin American 1.7%, Southeast Asian 1.7%, Arab 1.6%, West Asian 1.1%

Geography

It consists of the Toronto Islands and the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, and on the west, north and east by a line drawn from the harbour north on Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north on Dufferin, east on Queen Street West, southeast along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, north along Dovercourt Road, east along Dundas Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, east along the Canadian Pacific Railway situated north of Dupont Street, south along Avenue Road and Queens Park Crescent West, east along College Street and south along Yonge Street to the Harbour.

These borders were somewhat changed in the 2004 redistribution. The northwestern corner, a somewhat pro-NDP area was lost to Davenport. A large, but mostly business area of Toronto Centre—Rosedale between University Avenue and Yonge St. was given to the riding. This region tends to support the Liberals. The Toronto Islands were also added to the riding from Toronto Centre—Rosedale. This area is very strongly NDP and has a highly activist population that provides many campaign workers for the New Democrats.

History

The riding was created in 1987 from Trinity and Spadina, and smaller parts of Toronto Centre—Rosedale and Parkdale—High Park.

It consisted initially of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, on the east by Avenue Road, Queen's Park Crescent West, University Avenue and York Street, and on the west and north by a line drawn from the harbour north along Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north along Atlantic Avenue, southeast along the Canadian National Railway line, north along Dovercourt Road, east along Bloor Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, and east along the Canadian Pacific Railway line to Avenue Road.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

As per 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and the 2013 representation order, Trinity—Spadina will be dissolved following the conclusion of the next general election to be called after May 1, 2014. The area south of Dundas Street will be transferred to the new electoral district of Spadina—Fort York, the area north of Dundas and west of a line following Bay Street and Front Street will be transferred to the new electoral district of University—Rosedale while the area east of Bay Street and north of Front Street will be transferred to Toronto Centre.^[4]

Trinity—Spadina from when it was first created to 1996

The boundaries in place from 1996 to 2003

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Trinity—Spadina Riding created from Trinity, Spadina, Toronto Centre—Rosedale and Parkdale—High Park
34th	1988–1993	Dan Heap	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997	Tony Ianno	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Olivia Chow	New Democratic
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2014
41st	2014–2015	Adam Vaughan	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Spadina—Fort York, University—Rosedale and Toronto Centre

The seat became vacant on March 12, 2014 when Olivia Chow resigned in order to run in the Toronto mayoral election.^[5]

Election results

2014 by-election

Main article: By-elections to the 41st Canadian Parliament

Canadian federal by-election, June 30, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Adam Vaughan	18,547	53.66	+30.27
	New Democratic	Joe Cressy	11,802	34.14	−20.37
	Conservative	Benjamin Sharma	2,022	5.85	−10.96
	Green	Camille Labchuk	1,880	5.43	+1.05
	Christian Heritage	Linda Groce-Gibbons	174	0.50	–
	Independent	John "The Engineer" Turmel	141	0.41	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,566	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			111	0.32	−0.12
Turnout			34,677	31.78	−37.02
Eligible voters			110,252
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+25.32
By-election due to the resignation of Olivia Chow to run in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election.
Source: Elections Canada^[6]

2011 election

The 2011 election was not the expected close race between the incumbent NDP MP Olivia Chow and Liberal candidate, Toronto lawyer Christine Innes (wife of former MP Tony Ianno), that some observers predicted. The Liberals did not make gains here, which were anticipated by those who believed that the number of condominiums along the Toronto waterfront would bring in more centrist and right leaning voters.

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	35,601	54.51	+13.67
	Liberal	Christine Innes	15,276	23.39	-11.63
	Conservative	Gin Siow	10,976	16.81	+3.03
	Green	Rachel Barney	2,861	4.38	-4.67
	Libertarian	Chester Brown	456	0.70	-0.12
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	140	0.21	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,310	100.00
Total rejected ballots			301	0.46	–
Turnout			65,611	68.80	–
Eligible voters			95,363	–	–
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+12.65

2008 election

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	24,442	40.88	−5.15	$87,231
	Liberal	Christine Innes	20,967	35.06	−5.08	$68,343
	Conservative	Christine McGirr	8,220	13.75	+4.74	$53,815
	Green	Stephen LaFrenie	5,383	9.00	+5.16	$12,333
	Libertarian	Chester Brown	490	0.82	–	$0
	Independent	Carlos Santos Almeida	164	0.27	–	$541
	Independent	Val Illie	130	0.22	–	$580
Total valid votes/Expense limit			59,796	100.00	–	$94,303
Total rejected ballots			–	–
Turnout			–	–

2006 election

A third battle between NDP challenger Olivia Chow and longtime Liberal incumbent Tony Ianno took place in the 2006 election. Ianno's narrow victory over Chow in 2004 had surprised most observers. Immediately after the writ was dropped for the federal election, Chow resigned her City Hall seat and vowed not to return to her previous job as municipal councillor. Chow ran a more disciplined campaign than in 2004, focusing on winning her own seat rather than lending her support to the national campaign of her husband, NDP leader Jack Layton. Ianno suffered from the broader decline in Liberal fortunes across Canada, ultimately losing to Chow by nearly six percentage points, the largest margin of victory in any of their three electoral encounters.

The strongest areas for the NDP were the Annex, Seaton Village, the University of Toronto area, Sussex-Ulster and Kensington Market. The Liberals narrowly carried Little Italy, and won the waterfront condo belt by a very wide margin.

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	28,748	46.03	+3.99	$78,702
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	25,067	40.14	−3.41	$66,373
	Conservative	Sam Goldstein	5,625	9.01	+0.36	$22,879
	Green	Thom Chapman	2,398	3.84	−0.40	$165
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	392	0.63	−0.37	$257
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	138	0.22	+0.03	–
	Canadian Action	John Riddell	82	0.13	−0.04	$25
Total valid votes			62,450	100.00
Total rejected ballots			278	0.44	−0.17
Turnout			62,728	70.9	+7.2

2004 election

In the 2004 election, New Democrat city councillor Olivia Chow took on Tony Ianno again in what was expected to be a very competitive election. Additionally, Conservative David Watters, Green Anna Costa, Progressive Canadian Party Asif Hossain, Canadian Action Party Tristan Downe-Dewdney and Daniel Knezetic for the Popular Democratic Party contested the election.

The Popular Democratic Party was a social democratic and populist political party formed in 2003. It did not register as a political party with Elections Canada, and closed down after the 2004 election. The PDP proposed decentralization and community involvement in the political process through the creation of community councils to which any elected PDP representative would relinquish all decision making power. The party was anti-war, opposed globalization, was environmentalist, and supported full employment. Its only electoral activity was to run Daniel Knezetic, a University of Toronto student, in this election.

Unlike the 1997 battle between Chow and Ianno, this campaign largely remained civil. Chow was outside of the riding much of the time, campaigning in other ridings due to her national prestige. Many had pegged her to win because of her high profile as the wife of NDP leader Jack Layton. On election night, most were expecting Chow to win, but Ianno won a close but certain victory.

The results surprised many. Chow captured Little Italy, long Ianno's main bedrock of support and an area that polling and sign numbers showed as going strongly for Ianno. The reverse was true of the Annex which was expected to solidly vote for Chow but did so by a fairly small margin.

Ianno won on strong turnout from the waterfront condominiums that voted overwhelmingly in favour of him.

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	23,202	43.55	−3.86	$68,821
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	22,397	42.04	+3.87	$77,070
	Conservative	David Watters	4,605	8.64	−2.15	$34,598
	Green	Mark Viitala	2,259	4.24	+2.91	$1,330
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	531	1.00	–	$24
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	102	0.19	−0.06	$164
	Canadian Action	Tristan Alexander Downe-Dewdney	91	0.17	–	N/A
	Independent	Daniel Knezetic	89	0.17	–	$3,103
Total valid votes			53,276	100.00
Total rejected ballots			329	0.61
Turnout			53,605	63.7
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Prior elections

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Dan Heap	15,565	38.55
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	15,082	37.35
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Pimentel	8,618	21.34
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	494	1.22
	Rhinoceros	John Douglas	444	1.10
	Independent	Sukhdev S. Grewal	127	0.31
	Independent	Charles Shrybman	49	0.12
Total valid votes			40,379

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,769	51.14	+13.79
	New Democratic	Winnie Ng	10,430	26.98	-11.57
	Progressive Conservative	Lee Monaco	3,129	8.09	-13.25
	Reform	Peter Loftus	3,027	7.83
	National	Patrick Kutney	881	2.28
	Green	Chris Lea	623	1.61
	Natural Law	Ashley James Deans	391	1.01
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	283	0.73	-0.49
	Marxist–Leninist	Fernand Deschamps	74	0.19
	Abolitionist	Robert Martin	52	0.13
Total valid votes			38,659

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	18,215	45.30	−5.84
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	16,413	40.81	+13.83
	Progressive Conservative	Danielle Wai Mascall	2,793	6.95	−1.15
	Reform	Nolan Young	1,649	4.10	−3.73
	Green	Sat Singh Khalsa	392	0.97	−0.64
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	194	0.48	−0.53
	Independent	John Roderick Wilson	159	0.40	–
	Marxist–Leninist	J.-P. Bedard	140	0.35	+0.16
	Canadian Action	Thomas P. Beckerle	130	0.32	–
	Independent	Roberto Verdecchia	129	0.32	–
Total valid votes			40,214	100.00

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,041	47.41	+2.11
	New Democratic	Michael Valpy	15,332	38.17	-2.64
	Progressive Conservative	John E. Polko	2,199	5.47	-1.48
	Alliance	Lee Monaco	2,135	5.32	+1.22
	Marijuana	Paul Lewin	640	1.59
	Green	Matthew Hammond	533	1.33	+0.36
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	101	0.25	-0.10
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	96	0.24	-0.24
	Communist	Jesse Benjamin	88	0.22
Total valid votes			40,165
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

References

"(Code 35095) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.

Notes

↑ By-elections to the 41st Canadian Parliament#Trinity.E2.80.94Spadina
↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=cir/red&document=index&lang=e
↑ "Olivia Chow resigns seat, set to launch Toronto mayoral bid". Globe and Mail. March 12, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
↑ "Elections Canada". Elections Canada. October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.

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