Davenport (electoral district)

Davenport

Ontario electoral district
Davenport in relation to other electoral districts in Toronto
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Andrew Cash NDP
District created	1933
First contested	1935
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2001)	104,615
Electors (2011)	66,189
Area (km²)	13
Pop. density (per km²)	8,047.3
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Map of Davenport

For the provincial electoral district, see Davenport (provincial electoral district).

Davenport is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. Its population in 2001 was 111,705.

Geography

The district includes parts of west-end Toronto, and includes the neighbourhoods of Fairbank, Oakwood-Vaughan, St. Clair Gardens, Corso Italia, Dovercourt Village, Bloordale Village, Bloorcourt Village, Brockton Village, the Junction Triangle and the western part of Rua Acores.

History

The federal electoral district was created in 1933 from parts of Parkdale and Toronto Northwest ridings.

The federal riding of Davenport has been one of the most consistently Liberal ridings in Canada over the last century; in fact, the last non-Liberal to be elected for the constituency was Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament Douglas Morton in 1958. Since then, Liberals Walter Gordon and Charles Caccia (who himself held the seat for nearly 40 years) managed to win the seat by increasing margins, finally culminating in a 17 500-vote majority in 1993. Meanwhile, the opposition parties in the constituency were shifting, and the New Democratic Party candidate has beaten the Progressive Conservative or Conservative candidate in every election since 1979.

After the election of Paul Martin to the Liberal leadership in late 2003, Charles Caccia lost the nomination for the seat to local city councillor Mario Silva, who had signed up sufficient new members to oust the incumbent; this was an unpopular situation and was deeply resented by many in the local Liberal party, which, combined with redistricting, led to an overnight tripling of the NDP vote in the 2004 federal election.

In 2011, Andrew Cash of the New Democratic Party won the seat by a significant margin, becoming the first non-Liberal in over 50 years to represent the riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Parkdale and Toronto Northwest prior to 1933
18th	1935–1940		John Ritchie MacNicol	Progressive Conservative
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953		Paul Hellyer	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Douglas Morton	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963		Walter L. Gordon	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972		Charles Caccia	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006		Mario Silva	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present		Andrew Cash	New Democratic

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Andrew Cash	21,096	53.74	+22.48
	Liberal	Mario Silva	10,946	27.89	-17.88
	Conservative	Theresa Rodrigues	5,573	14.20	+3.19
	Green	Wayne Scott	1,344	3.42	-7.07
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	167	0.43	-0.03
	Animal Alliance Environment Voters	Simon Luisi	128	0.33	+0.07
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,254	100.00
Total rejected ballots			235	0.60	-0.10
Turnout			39,489	61.92	+8.88

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mario Silva	15,953	45.77	-6.10	$47,491
	New Democratic	Peter Ferreira	10,896	31.26	-1.35	$55,530
	Conservative	Theresa Rodrigues	3,838	11.01	+0.21	$13,993
	Green	Wayne Scott	3,655	10.49	+6.79	$12,172
	Canadian Action	Wendy Forrest	172	0.49	+0.18	$723
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	160	0.46	+0.02	$432
	Animal Alliance Environment Voters	Simon Luisi	92	0.26	–	$957
	Marxist–Leninist	Sarah Thompson	87	0.25	-0.01
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,853	100.00	$79,438
Total rejected ballots			245	0.70	+0.09
Turnout			35,098	53.03	-7.58

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Mario Silva	20,172	51.87	+1.18
	New Democratic	Gord Perks	12,681	32.61	-1.52
	Conservative	Theresa Rodrigues	4,202	10.80	+1.50
	Green	Mark O'Brien	1,440	3.70	-0.48
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	172	0.44	+0.03
	Canadian Action	Wendy Forrest	122	0.31	+0.02
	Marxist–Leninist	Sarah Thompson	103	0.26	+0.02
Total valid votes			38,892	100.00
Total rejected ballots			240	0.61	-0.22
Turnout			39,132	60.61	+7.72

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Mario Silva	16,773	50.69	-16.03
	New Democratic	Rui Pires	11,292	34.13	+20.57
	Conservative	Theresa Rodrigues	3,077	9.30	-4.61
	Green	Mark O'Brien	1,384	4.18	+1.66
	Marijuana	Elmer Gale	251	0.76	-1.12
	Communist	Johan Boyden	137	0.41
	Canadian Action	John Riddell	97	0.29	-0.84
	Marxist–Leninist	Sarah Thompson	79	0.24
Total valid votes			33,090	100.00
Total rejected ballots			278	0.83
Turnout			33,368	52.89

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	17,014	66.7	+0.9
	New Democratic	Jordan Berger	3,457	13.6	-4.9
	Alliance	Anthony Montenegrino	2,021	7.9
	Progressive Conservative	Eduardo Marcos	1,526	6.0	-4.1
	Green	Mark O'Brien	642	2.5	+0.4
	Marijuana	Elmer Gale	480	1.9
	Canadian Action	Ann Emmett	288	1.1
	Natural Law	Stephen Porter	73	0.3
Total valid votes			25,501	100.0

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	17,195	65.9	-8.0
	New Democratic	Chris Masterson	4,807	18.4	+9.4
	Progressive Conservative	Adele Pereira	2,628	10.1	+5.5
	Green	Richard Procter	551	2.1	+1.2
	Canadian Action	Ann Emmett	293	1.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Francesco Chilelli	250	1.0	+0.7
	Independent	Miguel Figueroa	194	0.7
	Independent	John Munoro	190	0.7
Total valid votes			26,108	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	20,100	73.9	+15.0
	New Democratic	John Doherty	2,455	9.0	-9.8
	Reform	Michael Jakubcak	2,107	7.7
	Progressive Conservative	Margaret Samuel	1,251	4.6	-14.0
	National	Sherelanne Purcell	448	1.6
	Natural Law	Bruce Hislop	283	1.0
	Green	Sat K. Singh Khalsa	255	0.9
	Libertarian	Nunzio Venuto	200	0.7	-1.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Seed	64	0.2
	Abolitionist	Susan Lylliane Pennington	33	0.1
Total valid votes			27,196	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	16,436	58.9	+5.2
	New Democratic	Anna Menozzi	5,243	18.8	-3.7
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Franco	5,179	18.6	-2.6
	Libertarian	April Henderson	480	1.7	+0.7
	Rhinoceros	Barry Heidt	214	0.8
	Communist	George P. Hewison	196	0.7	0.0
	Independent	Heather Robertson	150	0.5
Total valid votes			27,898	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	13,248	53.7	-8.8
	New Democratic	Manfred Netzel	5,548	22.5	+0.3
	Progressive Conservative	Giovanni Rocca	5,217	21.1	+7.5
	Green	Elgin Blair	256	1.0
	Libertarian	John Scott Hayes	252	1.0	0.0
	Communist	Gordon Massie	165	0.7	+0.2
Total valid votes			24,686	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	14,545	62.4	+6.5
	New Democratic	Ed Brown	5,170	22.2	-2.2
	Progressive Conservative	Italo Luci	3,167	13.6	-4.3
	Libertarian	Richard Brooke	230	1.0	+0.3
	Communist	Gail J. Phillips	117	0.5	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Richard Daly	72	0.3	0.0
Total valid votes			23,301	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	12,760	55.9	-3.7
	New Democratic	Ed Brown	5,579	24.4	+7.6
	Progressive Conservative	Lilliana Edwards	4,090	17.9	-4.1
	Libertarian	George J. Dance	156	0.7
	Communist	Gail J. Phillips	117	0.5	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Richard Daly	80	0.4	-0.1
	Independent	Steve Penner	48	0.2
Total valid votes			22,830	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	12,294	59.6	+15.9
	Progressive Conservative	Brownie Darubin	4,542	22.0	-8.0
	New Democratic	Mairi McElhill	3,476	16.8	-7.8
	Communist	Mike Phillips	123	0.6	-0.3
	Independent	John Ross Taylor	102	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Richard Daly	95	0.5	-0.3
Total valid votes			20,632	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	9,366	43.7	-6.7
	Progressive Conservative	John A. Gillespie	6,442	30.1	+8.0
	New Democratic	Angelo Principe	5,272	24.6	-2.9
	Independent	William Kashtan	190	0.9
	Independent	Richard Daly	160	0.7
Total valid votes			21,430	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Charles Caccia	10,736	50.4	-7.9
	New Democratic	Otto Bresan	5,865	27.5	+10.3
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Dear	4,688	22.0	-1.0
Total valid votes			21,289	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Walter L. Gordon	9,887	58.4	+3.6
	Progressive Conservative	Daniel Iannuzzi	3,907	23.1	+0.6
	New Democratic	Nelson W. Abraham	2,918	17.2	-4.4
	Communist	William Kashtan	224	1.3
Total valid votes			16,936	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Walter L. Gordon	11,023	54.7	+12.1
	Progressive Conservative	Pauline Miles	4,520	22.4	-9.0
	New Democratic	Vic Cathers	4,347	21.6	-2.7
	Social Credit	Roland Ring	245	1.2	+0.7
Total valid votes			20,135	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Walter L. Gordon	9,101	42.6	+11.1
	Progressive Conservative	M. Douglas Morton	6,713	31.5	-17.1
	New Democratic	Bill Sefton	5,181	24.3	+4.4
	Communist	Phyllis Clarke	231	1.1
	Social Credit	Raymond Bell	117	0.5
Total valid votes			21,343	100.0

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	M. Douglas Morton	12,117	48.6	+7.8
	Liberal	Paul Hellyer	7,872	31.5	+1.3
	Co-operative Commonwealth	F. Andrew Brewin	4,963	19.9	-9.2
Total valid votes			24,952	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	M. Douglas Morton	8,989	40.7	-0.4
	Liberal	Paul Hellyer	6,665	30.2	-2.1
	Co-operative Commonwealth	F. Andrew Brewin	6,414	29.1	+25.4
Total valid votes			22,068	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Paul Hellyer	8,919	41.1	+2.1
	Progressive Conservative	Harold McBride	6,998	32.3	-3.5
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Fred Young	4,968	22.9	-2.3
	Labour-Progressive	Hector Harold MacArthur	802	3.7
Total valid votes			21,687	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Paul Hellyer	11,431	39.0	+10.5
	Progressive Conservative	John Ritchie MacNicol	10,476	35.8	-12.9
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David B. Archer	7,366	25.2	+6.9
Total valid votes			29,273	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Progressive Conservative	John Ritchie MacNicol	13,110	48.6	-8.6
	Liberal	William Alexander Gunn	7,682	28.5	-14.3
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Eamon Park	4,931	18.3
	Labour-Progressive	Richard W. Robertson	882	3.3
	Social Credit	David Ewald Hartman	346	1.3
Total valid votes			26,951	100.0

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	National Government	John Ritchie MacNicol	14,890	57.2	+17.6
	Liberal	Neil Cameron	11,140	42.8	+15.0
Total valid votes			26,030	100.0

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Ritchie MacNicol	10,919	39.6
	Liberal	John P. Travers	7,675	27.8
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Williams Bruce	4,766	17.3
	Reconstruction	W. Harvey Brown	4,216	15.3
Total valid votes			27,576	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Sources

• Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada