Toronto Southwest was an Ontario provincial electoral district in the old City of Toronto's west-end. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 until 1926, when it was abolished and redistributed into the Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick districts.[1] It had two seats in the Legislature: Seat A and Seat B.
Boundaries
Toronto Southwest's boundaries remained the same for the three elections that it was contested; and gaining a significant boost in eligible voters in 1919, when women and underage soldiers were given the right to vote for the first time.[2] The northern boundary was College Street, starting at Lansdowne Avenue, across. It then went southwards along its eastern border on the western edge of University Avenue to Simcoe Street and then to Lake Ontario. It also included the Toronto Islands. The western border picked up on land on Dunn Avenue and then jogged west on the north side of Queen Street West to the east side of Lansdowne Avenue. It continued north on Lansdowne to the south side of College Street.[3]
Members of Provincial Parliament
Election results
Elections were run as separate races for Seat A and Seat B rather than a combined race.
Seat A
By-election 21 August 1916
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[6] |
Vote % |
|
Liberal |
Hubert Hartley Dewart |
2,705 |
50.6 |
|
Conservative |
J.A. Norris |
2,062 |
38.6 |
|
Socialist |
J.M. Conner |
445 |
8.3 |
|
Independent-Liberal |
Gordon Waldron |
131 |
2.5 |
|
|
Total |
5,343 |
|
Ontario general election, 1923
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[9][nb 5] |
Vote % |
|
Conservative |
James Arthur McCausland |
7,967 |
58.0 |
|
Liberal |
Hubert Hartley Dewart |
3,211 |
23.4 |
|
Labour |
Malcolm L. Bruce |
2,562 |
18.6 |
|
|
Total |
13,740 |
|
Seat B
Ontario general election, 1923
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[9] |
Vote % |
|
Conservative |
Frederick George McBrien |
7,415 |
52.8 |
|
Independent-Liberal |
Joseph Singer |
2,306 |
16.4 |
|
Liberal |
John MacDonald |
2,209 |
15.7 |
|
Liberal |
John Carman Ramsden |
2,115 |
15.1 |
|
Total |
14,045 |
|
References
Notes
- ↑ Foy died in office 13 June 1916
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Only last name of candidate given.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 This was the first election to allow women to vote, more than doubling the vote counts in each riding.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 13 polls unreported.
- ↑ 138 out of 146 polls reporting.
Citations
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- ↑ For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
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- For Hubert Dewart's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For James McCausland's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For George Gooderham's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For John Ramsden's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For Frederick McBrien's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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