York Centre (provincial electoral district)

York Centre is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been the name of ridings in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario three different times. It was created initially in 1955 from the southern part of York North. It was dissolved in 1963 when it was split into three ridings called Yorkview, Downsview and Armourdale. In 1967 it was reconstituted north of Steeles in the township of Markham. This lasted until 1999 when it was dissolved into Markham-Unionville. The name was given to a new riding formed in its original location south of Steeles. It remains as an existing riding today.

Boundaries

1955 to 1963

The original boundaries consisted of Steeles Avenue West to the north, Yonge Street to the East, Lawrence Avenue West to the south and the Humber River to the west.

1999 to present

York Centre consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit, and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Yonge Street, west along the hydroelectric transmission line north of Finch Avenue West, south along Bathurst Street, southeast along the Don River West Branch, southwest and west along Highway 401, north along Jane Street, east along Sheppard Avenue West, northwest along Black Creek, east along Grandravine Drive, and north along Keele Street to the city limit.

History

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

Before 1999, the name York Centre was assigned to a completely different riding located in York Region north of Toronto with none of the same territory as the current York Centre. In 1999, much of the old York Centre was absorbed by the new riding of Vaughan—King—Aurora. The former riding was Wilson Heights.

Members of Provincial Parliament

York Centre
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from York North
25th	1955–1959		Thomas Graham	Progressive Conservative
26th	1959–1963		Vernon Singer	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Yorkview, Downsview and Armourdale
Riding re-created
28th	1967–1971		Donald Deacon	Liberal
29th	1971–1975		Donald Deacon	Liberal
30th	1975–1977		Alfred Stong	Liberal
31st	1977–1981		Alfred Stong	Liberal
32nd	1981–1985		Don Cousens	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1985–1987		Don Cousens	Progressive Conservative
34th	1987–1990		Greg Sorbara	Liberal
35th	1990–1995		Greg Sorbara	Liberal
36th	1995–1999		Al Palladini	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Vaughan—King—Aurora and Markham—Unionville
Riding re-created from Downsview and Wilson Heights
37th	1999–2003		Monte Kwinter	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[1]

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Monte Kwinter	16,935	47.22	+2.68
	Progressive Conservative	Avi Yufest	11,125	31.02	-4.50
	New Democratic	John Fagan	5,645	15.74	+1.61
	Green	Josh Borenstein	1,156	3.27	+1.62
	Freedom	Laurence Cherniak	489	1.38	+1.05
Total valid votes			35,345	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.66
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Monte Kwinter	14,694	45.36	-3.37
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Mostyn	11,506	35.52	+3.24
	New Democratic	John Fagan	4,579	14.13	+3.26
	Libertarian	David Epstein	846	2.61
	Green	Yuriy Shevyryov	535	1.65	-4.81
	Independent	Jeff Pancer	127	0.39
	Freedom	Ron Tal	108	0.33
Total valid votes			32,395	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			325	0.99
Turnout			32,720	45.74
Eligible voters			71,531
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.31
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Monte Kwinter	16,646	48.73	-10.68
	Progressive Conservative	Igor Toutchinski	11,028	32.28	+7.45
	New Democratic	Claudia Rodriguez	3,713	10.87	-0.17
	Green	Marija Minic	2,207	6.46	+1.73
	Family Coalition	Marilyn Carvalho	568	1.66
Total valid votes				100.0

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Monte Kwinter	18,808	59.41	-1.68
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Cullen	7,862	24.83	-1.6
	New Democratic	Matthew Norrish	3,494	11.04	+0.34
	Green	Constantine Kritsonis	1,496	4.73
Total valid votes			31,660	100.0

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Monte Kwinter	21,250	61.09
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Hausman	9,192	26.43
	New Democratic	Norm Jesin	3,721	10.70
	Natural Law	Angus Hunt	621	1.79
Total valid votes			34,784	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	19,223	59.8
	Mixed member proportional	12,907	40.2
	Total valid votes	32,130	100.0

Historic election results

1987 boundaries

Ontario general election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Al Palladini	37,897	48.94	+25.24
	Liberal	Mario Ferri	29,150	37.65	-8.03
	New Democratic	T. S. Joseph Thevarkunnel	6,698	8.65	-21.97
	Family Coalition	Giuseppi Gori	1,891	2.44
	Libertarian	Robert Ede	1,792	2.31
Total valid votes			77,428	100.0
Source:Elections Ontario^[4]

Ontario general election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Greg Sorbara	27,670	45.68	-16.05
	New Democratic	Laurie Orrent	18,543	30.62	+12.33
	Progressive Conservative	Don McGuire	14,354	23.70	+3.73
Total valid votes			60,567	100.0
Source: The Toronto Daily Star^[5]^{[nb 1]}

Ontario general election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Greg Sorbara	26,425	61.73	+28.61
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Mason	8,550	19.97	-30.43
	New Democratic	Joe Licastro	7,831	18.29	+6.24
Total valid votes			42,806	100.0
Source: The Toronto Daily Star^[6]^{[nb 2]}

1974 boundaries

Ontario general election, 1985
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Cousens	29,652	50.40	+3.09
	Liberal	Ron Maheu	19,484	33.12	-9.37
	New Democratic	Diane Meaghan	7,089	12.05	+2.55
	Independent	Stewart Cole	2,607	4.43
Total valid votes			58,832	100.0
Source:Ottawa Citizen^[7]

Ontario general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Cousens	18,369	47.31	+7.55
	Liberal	Alfred Stong	16,495	42.49	-1.92
	New Democratic	John Campey	3,689	9.50	-6.33
Total valid votes			38,823	100.0
Source: The Windsor Star^[8]

Ontario general election, 1977
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alfred Stong	17,608	44.41	+3.69
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Corcoran	15,768	39.76	+2.95
	New Democratic	Chris Olsen	6,277	15.83	-6.16
Total valid votes			39,653	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[9]

Ontario general election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alfred Stong	14,347	40.72	-1.55
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Roman	12,968	36.81	-4.86
	New Democratic	Tony Snedker	7,748	21.99	+5.93
	Independent	John White	171	0.49
Total valid votes			35,234	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[10]

1966 boundaries

Ontario general election, 1971
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Donald Deacon	14,885	42.27	+1.66
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Roman	14,674	41.67	+5.06
	New Democratic	Roy Clifton	5,657	16.06	-6.73
Total valid votes			35,216	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[11]

Ontario general election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Donald Deacon	9,991	40.61	+4.04
	Progressive Conservative	Lorne Wells	9,006	36.61	+4.72
	New Democratic	Jim Norton	5,606	22.79	-8.12
Total valid votes			24,603	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[12]

1950s

Ontario general election, 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Vernon Singer	15,702	36.57	+2.12
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Graham	13,695	31.89	-5.82
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Fred Young	13,272	30.91	+4.94
	Independent	George Rolland	270	0.63
Total valid votes			42,939	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[13]

Ontario general election, 1955
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Graham	12,648	37.71
	Liberal	Fred McMahon	11,553	34.45
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Fred Young	8,710	25.97
	Labor–Progressive	Stephen Endicott	646	1.93
Total valid votes			33,537	100.0
Source: Canadian Press^[14]

References

Notes

↑ 390 out of 391 polls reporting.
↑ 301 out of 308 polls reporting.

Citations

↑
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Thomas Graham's Legislative Assembly information see "Michael Bryant, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Vernon Singer's Legislative Assembly information see "Vernon Singer, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Donald Deacon's Legislative Assembly information see "Donald Deacon, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Alfred Stong's Legislative Assembly information see "Alfred Stong, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Don Cousens's Legislative Assembly information see "W. Donald Cousens, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Greg Sorbara's Legislative Assembly information see "Greg Sorbara, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Al Palladini's Legislative Assembly information see "Al Palladini, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Monte Kwinter's Legislative Assembly information see "Monte Kwinter, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
↑ "General Election Results by District, 104 York Centre". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - York Centre" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
↑ "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 1995-06-08. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
↑ "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto). 1990-09-07. p. A10.
↑ "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto). 1987-09-11. p. A12.
↑ Canadian Press (1985-05-03). "The night the Tories tumbled; riding by riding results". Ottawa Citizen (Toronto). p. 43. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
↑ Canadian Press (1981-03-20). "Election results for Metro Toronto ridings". The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario). p. 22. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
↑ Canadian Press (1977-06-10). "How they voted in Metro area". The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto). p. A10.
↑ Canadian Press (1975-09-19). "Results from the 29 ridings in Metro". The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto). p. A18.
↑ Canadian Press (1971-10-22). "Here's who won on the Metro ridings". The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto). p. 12.
↑ Canadian Press (1967-10-18). "Tories win, but...". The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario). p. B2. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
↑ Canadian Press (1959-06-12). "Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies". The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa). p. 26. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
↑ Canadian Press (1955-06-10). "Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies". The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa). p. 4. Retrieved 2012-04-22.

External links

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

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See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario

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