Etobicoke Centre (electoral district)
Ontario electoral district | |||
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Etobicoke Centre in relation to the other Toronto ridings (2015 boundaries) | |||
Federal electoral district | |||
Legislature | House of Commons | ||
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District created | 1976 | ||
First contested | 1979 | ||
Last contested | 2015 | ||
District webpage | profile, map | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2011)[1] | 114,910 | ||
Electors (2015) | 86,412 | ||
Area (km²)[1] | 39 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 2,946.4 | ||
Census divisions | Toronto | ||
Census subdivisions | Toronto |
Etobicoke Centre (French: Etobicoke-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979.
Geography
The riding includes the neighbourhoods of Eatonville (part), Islington-City Centre West (part), Richview, Humber Heights - Westmount, Eringate – Centennial – West Deane, Markland Wood, Princess Gardens, Thorncrest Village and Humber Valley Village in the former city of Etobicoke, Toronto.
History
The riding was created in 1976 from part of the Etobicoke riding in what was then a constituent municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.
On May 18, 2012, the Ontario Superior Court declared the 2011 federal election results for this district to be null and void.[2] The judge ruled that 79 votes should not have been counted when the margin of victory in the riding was only 26 votes. On May 28, 2012, however, the incumbent Member of Parliament, Ted Opitz, filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada. On October 25, 2012, the Supreme Court allowed Mr. Opitz's appeal and quashed the order for a by-election. In its decision, the Supreme Court restored 59 of the 79 tossed votes, essentially leaving Mr. Optiz with a 6 vote margin of victory.[3]
This riding lost territory to Etobicoke North and gained territory from Etobicoke—Lakeshore during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Members of Parliament
It has elected four members of the House of Commons of Canada:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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Etobicoke Centre Riding created from Etobicoke and High Park—Humber Valley |
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31st | 1979–1980 | Michael Wilson | Progressive Conservative | |
32nd | 1980–1984 | |||
33rd | 1984–1988 | |||
34th | 1988–1993 | |||
35th | 1993–1997 | Allan Rock | Liberal | |
36th | 1997–2000 | |||
37th | 2000–2004 | |||
38th | 2004–2006 | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | ||
39th | 2006–2008 | |||
40th | 2008–2011 | |||
41st | 2011–2015 | Ted Opitz | Conservative | |
42nd | 2015–Present | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | Liberal |
Election results
Canadian federal election, 2015 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | 32,612 | 52.77 | +12.21 | – | |||
Conservative | Ted Opitz | 23,070 | 37.33 | -4.53 | – | |||
New Democratic | Tanya De Mello | 4,886 | 7.91 | -6.72 | – | |||
Green | Shawn Rizvi | 856 | 1.39 | -1.30 | – | |||
Progressive Canadian | Rob Wolvin | 378 | 0.61 | – | ||||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 61,802 | 100.00 | $225,720.80 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 303 | 0.49 | ||||||
Turnout | 62,105 | 71.03 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 87,440 | |||||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.37 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[4][5] |
2011 federal election redistributed results[6] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 22,306 | 41.86 | |
Liberal | 21,616 | 40.56 | |
New Democratic | 7,792 | 14.62 | |
Green | 1,431 | 2.69 | |
Others | 146 | 0.27 |
Canadian federal election, 2011 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | Ted Opitz | 21,644 | 41.2% | +3.7% | – | |||
Liberal | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | 21,618 | 41.2% | -7.7% | – | |||
New Democratic | Ana Maria Rivero | 7,735 | 14.7% | +6.4% | – | |||
Green | Katarina Zoricic | 1,377 | 2.6% | -2.8% | – | |||
Marxist–Leninist | Sarah Thompson | 149 | 0.3% | – | ||||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 52,523 | 100.0 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 271 | 0.51 | +0.02 | |||||
Turnout | 52,794 | 65.49 | +3.8 | |||||
Eligible voters | 80,603 |
Canadian federal election, 2008 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | 24,537 | 48.9 | -3.5 | $72,089 | |||
Conservative | Axel Kuhn | 18,839 | 37.5 | +4.3 | $83,207 | |||
New Democratic | Joseph Schwartz | 4,164 | 8.3 | -1.3 | ||||
Green | Marion Schaffer | 2,688 | 5.4 | +1.6 | $352 | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 50,228 | 100.0 | $85,584 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 247 | 0.49 | ||||||
Turnout | 50,475 | 62.7 |
Canadian federal election, 2006 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | 29,509 | 52.4 | -5.9 | ||||
Conservative | Axel Kuhn | 18,702 | 33.2 | +4.8 | ||||
New Democratic | Cynthia Cameron | 5,426 | 9.6 | -0.3 | ||||
Green | John Vanderheyden | 2,111 | 3.8 | +0.6 | ||||
Independent | Norman Dundas | 402 | 0.7 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | France Tremblay | 117 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||
Total valid votes | 56,267 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 2004 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Borys Wrzesnewskyj | 30,441 | 58.3 | +1.9 | ||||
Conservative | Lida Preyma | 14,829 | 28.4 | -10.2 | ||||
New Democratic | John Richmond | 5,174 | 9.9 | +5.3 | ||||
Green | Margo Pearson | 1,676 | 3.2 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | France Tremblay | 112 | 0.2 | -0.2 | ||||
Total valid votes | 52,232 | 100.0 |
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
Canadian federal election, 2000 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Allan Rock | 26,083 | 56.4 | +1.8 | ||||
Alliance | Michael G. Kraik | 10,318 | 22.3 | +5.1 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ross Vaughan | 7,566 | 16.4 | -5.6 | ||||
New Democratic | Karen Dolan | 2,124 | 4.6 | -0.7 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Dagmar Sullivan | 181 | 0.4 | 0.0 | ||||
Total valid votes | 46,272 | 100.0 |
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
Canadian federal election, 1997 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Allan Rock | 27,345 | 54.6 | +0.2 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Alida Leistra | 11,023 | 22.0 | +2.5 | ||||
Reform | Jason Beyak | 8,638 | 17.2 | -4.9 | ||||
New Democratic | Matthew Bonk | 2,661 | 5.3 | +3.1 | ||||
Natural Law | Paul Gasztold | 267 | 0.5 | +0.1 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Janice Murray | 189 | 0.4 | +0.3 | ||||
Total valid votes | 50,123 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1993 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Allan Rock | 25,633 | 54.3 | +13.9 | ||||
Reform | Charles McLeod | 10,440 | 22.1 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Charles Donley | 9,203 | 19.5 | -28.9 | ||||
New Democratic | Udayan Rege | 1,037 | 2.2 | -7.4 | ||||
National | Janice Tait | 500 | 1.1 | |||||
Natural Law | Everett Murphy | 200 | 0.4 | |||||
Abolitionist | Kelly Ann Leblanc | 77 | 0.2 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | Janice Murray | 53 | 0.1 | |||||
Commonwealth of Canada | Joseph Zmak | 25 | 0.1 | -0.1 | ||||
Total valid votes | 47,168 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1988 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Michael Wilson | 24,338 | 48.4 | -8.4 | ||||
Liberal | Mary Schwass | 20,342 | 40.5 | +10.6 | ||||
New Democratic | Phil Jones | 4,815 | 9.6 | -3.2 | ||||
Libertarian | Janice E. Hazlett | 373 | 0.7 | +0.2 | ||||
Green | Isabel Van Humbeck | 187 | 0.4 | |||||
Communist | Dan Goldstick | 81 | 0.2 | |||||
Commonwealth of Canada | John J. Benz | 70 | 0.1 | |||||
Independent | Jeanne Gatley | 62 | 0.1 | |||||
Total valid votes | 50,268 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1984 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Michael Wilson | 34,026 | 56.8 | +9.7 | ||||
Liberal | Jim Brown | 17,853 | 29.8 | -11.6 | ||||
New Democratic | Phil Jones | 7,657 | 12.8 | +2.0 | ||||
Libertarian | Shirley Yamada | 339 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||||
Total valid votes | 59,875 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1980 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Michael Wilson | 26,969 | 47.1 | -4.2 | ||||
Liberal | Joe Cruden | 23,715 | 41.4 | +3.7 | ||||
New Democratic | Dan Shipley | 6,181 | 10.8 | +0.6 | ||||
Libertarian | Norman R. Andersen | 308 | 0.5 | +0.1 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Anne Boylan | 88 | 0.2 | +0.1 | ||||
Total valid votes | 57,261 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1979 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Michael Wilson | 31,498 | 51.3 | |||||
Liberal | Alastair W. Gillespie | 23,141 | 37.7 | |||||
New Democratic | Dan Shipley | 6,237 | 10.2 | |||||
Libertarian | Norman R. Andersen | 272 | 0.4 | |||||
Communist | Nick Hrynchyshyn | 112 | 0.2 | |||||
Independent | Helen Obadia | 54 | 0.1 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | James H. Reid | 38 | 0.1 | |||||
Total valid votes | 61,352 | 100.0 |
See also
References
- "(Code 35022) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- House of Commons of Canada historical ridings section
- 2011 Results from Elections Canada, Results certified by judicial recount
- Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Notes
- 1 2 Statistics Canada: 2012
- ↑ "Election result in Toronto riding thrown out by judge". CBC News. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ↑ "Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj". October 25, 2012.
- ↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Etobicoke Centre, 30 September 2015
- ↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
- ↑ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
Coordinates: 43°38′53″N 79°33′28″W / 43.6481°N 79.5577°W