Toronto Centre (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Toronto Centre.

Toronto Centre

Ontario electoral district
Toronto Centre in relation to other Toronto electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Glen Murray Liberal
District created	1999
First contested	1999
Last contested	2010
Demographics
Population (2006)	121,407
Electors (2007)	84,898
Area (km²)	14
Pop. density (per km²)	8,671.9
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Toronto Centre is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

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.

2010 by-election

On January 6, 2010, a provincial by-election was called in Toronto Centre to replace George Smitherman, who had resigned as MPP to run for mayor of Toronto. The by-election took place on February 4. With more than three quarters of the polls reporting, Liberal Glen Murray appears to have won the by-election.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
37th	1999–2003		George Smitherman	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2010
	2010–2011		Glen Murray
40th	2011-present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Glen Murray	25,075	54.85	+7.68
	New Democrat	Cathy Crowe	11,495	25.15	-8.26
	Progressive Conservative	Martin Abell	7,149	15.64	+0.34
	Green	Mark Daye	1,145	2.5	-0.51
	Libertarian	Judi Falardeau	439	0.96	+0.57
	Communist	Cathy Holliday	156	0.34	-
	Independent	Harvey Rotenberg	102	0.22	-
	Freedom	Christopher Goodwin	95	0.21	-0.02
	Independent	Bahman Yazdanfar	29	0.06	-
	People's Political Party of Ontario	Phil Sarazen	29	0.06	-
	Independent	Anne Abbott	withdrawn		-
Total valid votes				100.00

By-election on February 4, 2010 (Resignation of George Smitherman) Resignation of George Smitherman
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Glen Murray	12,289	47.17	-0.58
	New Democrat	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 C. Turmel	66	0.25	-
	Independent	Raj Rama	63	0.24	-
	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	61	0.23	-
Total valid votes			26,204	100.00

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 Democrat	Sandra Gonzalez	8,528	18.86	-1.28
	Green	Mike McLean	4,366	9.66	5.82
	Libertarian	Michael Green	675	1.49	-
	People with 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
Total valid votes			45,207	100.00

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 Democrat	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 Democrat	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

Sources

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results

External links

• Toronto Centre Provincial Progressive Conservative Association