York South—Weston

For the provincial electoral district, see York South—Weston (provincial electoral district).

York South—Weston

Ontario electoral district
York South–Weston in relation to the other Toronto ridings (2015 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Ahmed Hussen Liberal
District created	1976
First contested	1979
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	116,606
Electors (2015)	69,754
Area (km²)	26
Pop. density (per km²)	4,484.8
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Map of York South-Weston riding

York South—Weston (French: York-Sud—Weston) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979.

Electoral district

Located in the west-end of Toronto, the riding is made up largely of the old City of York, a southwestern portion of the old city of North York, Weston, and parts of the old city of Toronto north of High Park. The riding has a largely working class and immigrant population.

Its geographic boundaries are the part of the City of Toronto bounded by a line drawn from Humber River east along Highway 401, south along the Canadian National Railway situated west of Caledonia Road, west along Rogers Road, southeast along Old Weston Road, west along Lavender Road, south along Keele Street, southeast along the Canadian National/Canadian Pacific Railway, west along the Canadian Pacific Railway, and north along the Humber River to Highway 401.

Former boundaries

York South—Weston was created in 1976 from parts of York South, York West, Davenport, High Park—Humber Valley, and Etobicoke ridings.

Its new boundaries were originally of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded by a line drawn from Eglinton Avenue West north along Keele Street, west along Lawrence Avenue West, south along the Humber River, east and north along the north limit of the City of Toronto, south along Runnymede Road, east along Annette Street, south along Keele Street, east along Humberside Avenue, northwest along the Canadian National Railway, east along the north limit of the City of Toronto, north along the east side of Prospect Cemetery, and west along Eglinton Avenue West to Keele Street.

In 1987, York South—Weston was redefined to consist of the parts of the cities of North York, Toronto and York bounded by a line drawn from the western limit of the City of North York east along Highway 401, south along Keele Street, west along Eglinton Avenue West, south along Keele Street, west along the southern limit of the City of York, southeast along the Canadian National Railway line, west along Dupont Street, northwest along Dundas Street West, west along Annette Street, north along Runnymede Road, west along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and north along the western limits of the Cities of York and North York to Highway 401.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the parts of the cities of North York, Toronto and York bounded by a line drawn from the western limit of the City of North York east along Highway 401, southeast along the Canadian National Railway situated immediately west of Caledonia Road, west along Rogers Road, south along Old Weston Road, west along the northern limit of the City of Toronto, southeast along the Canadian National Railway, west along the Canadian Pacific Railway, and north along the western limit of the cities of York and North York to Highway 401.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above. This riding was unchanged during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

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  1976 to 1987

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  1987 to 1996

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  1996 to 2003

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  2003 to 2015

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
York South—Weston Riding created from York South, York West, Davenport, High Park—Humber Valley and Etobicoke
31st	1979–1980		Ursula Appolloni	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		John Nunziata
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1996
	1996–1997			Independent
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004		Alan Tonks	Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015		Mike Sullivan	New Democratic
42nd	2015–Present		Ahmed Hussen	Liberal

Election results

In 2015, York South-Weston elected Canada's first Somali-born MP.

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Ahmed Hussen	20,093	46.0	+13.2	–
	New Democratic	Mike Sullivan	13,281	30.4	-9.7	–
	Conservative	James Robinson	8,399	19.2	-5.1	–
	Libertarian	Stephen Lepone	1,041	2.4	–	–
	Green	John Johnson	892	2.0	-0.8	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			43,706	100.0		$203,157.28
Total rejected ballots			362	0.82	+0.02
Turnout			44,068	62.63	+9.53
Eligible voters			70,361
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+11.45
Source: Elections Canada

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Mike Sullivan	14,122	40.1	+12.1	–
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	11,542	32.8	-13.8	–
	Conservative	Jilian Saweczko	8,559	24.3	+3.9	–
	Green	Sonny Day	975	2.8	-2.3	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			35,198	100.0
Total rejected ballots			288	0.8	+0.1
Turnout			35,486	53.10	+2.4
Eligible voters			66,807	–	–
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+12.95

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	16,071	46.6	-10.5	$48,748
	New Democratic	Mike Sullivan	9,641	28.0	+6.7	$46,118
	Conservative	Aydin Cocelli	7,021	20.4	+3.0	$27,300
	Green	Andre Papadimitriou	1,757	5.1	+1.3	$2,977
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,490	100.0	$80,783
Total rejected ballots			241	0.7
Turnout			34,731	50.7
	Liberal hold		Swing		-8.6

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	22,871	57.06%	−2.77%	$36,134
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	8,525	21.27%	+0.06%	$24,433
	Conservative	Stephen Halicki	6,991	17.44%	+2.49%	$22,529
	Green	Maria De Angelis-Pater	1,506	3.76%	+0.26%	$1,003
	Independent	Dragan Cimesa	189	0.47%	–	–
Total valid votes			40,082	100.0%

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	20,537	59.8	+14.2
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	7,281	21.2	+17.5
	Conservative	Stephen Halicki	5,133	14.9	+7.1
	Green	Jessica Fracassi	1,199	3.5	+2.6
	Communist	Shirley Hawley	175	0.5	+0.1
Total valid votes			34,325
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	%	∆%
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	15,841	45.6	+12.2
	Independent	John Nunziata	14,344	41.3	-3.7
	Alliance	Dan Houssar	1,754	5.0	-1.2
	New Democratic	Tom Parkin	1,288	3.7	-5.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Daniel Baker	986	2.8	-2.2
	Green	Denis Calnan	293	0.8	+0.4
	Communist	Hassan Husseini	130	0.4	+0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Anna Dicarlo	102	0.3	0.0
Total valid votes			34,738	100.0

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Independent	John Nunziata	17,163	45.0
	Liberal	Judy Sgro	12,732	33.4	-36.7
	New Democratic	Odoardo Di Santo	3,552	9.3	+3.9
	Reform	Kathleen Crone	2,363	6.2	-8.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jan Harnett	1,925	5.1	-1.8
	Green	Shelley Lipsey	171	0.4
	Marxist–Leninist	Ginette Boutet	112	0.3	+0.1
	Independent	Hassan Husseini	98	0.3
Total valid votes			38,116	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	John Nunziata	23,919	70.1	+16.4
	Reform	Kathleen Crone	5,047	14.8
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Figliano	2,332	6.8	-14.8
	New Democratic	Sil Salvaterra	1,864	5.5	-17.7
	Natural Law	Greg W. Roberts	265	0.8
	Libertarian	Roma Kelembet	261	0.8	0.0
	Independent	Danny Red Goldstick	119	0.3
	Abolitionist	Philip Scott Carter	88	0.3
	Commonwealth of Canada	Felix Duda	80	0.2	0.0
	Independent	Peter Hones	71	0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	Heather Robertson	68	0.2
Total valid votes			34,114	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	John Nunziata	21,111	53.7	+16.0
	New Democratic	Steve Krashinsky	9,095	23.1	-7.9
	Progressive Conservative	Carlo Testa	8,488	21.6	-7.0
	Libertarian	Clifford Trewin	295	0.8	0.0
	Communist	Omar Latif	210	0.5	+0.1
	Commonwealth of Canada	Myrtle Thompson	105	0.3
Total valid votes			39,304	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	John Nunziata	14,217	37.7	-2.5
	New Democratic	Steve Krashinsky	11,679	31.0	+2.8
	Progressive Conservative	Carlo Testa	10,789	28.6	-1.7
	Independent	Mike Luczkiw	526	1.4
	Libertarian	Myron Petriw	281	0.7	-0.2
	Communist	Mike Phillips	174	0.5
Total valid votes			37,666	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ursula Appolloni	16,520	47.2	+7.0
	New Democratic	Vince Del Buono	9,280	26.5	-1.7
	Progressive Conservative	John Oostrom	8,711	24.9	-5.4
	Libertarian	George Dance	299	0.9	-0.1
	Communist	Mike Phillips	99	0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Nunn	82	0.2	-0.1
Total valid votes			34,991	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ursula Appolloni	14,913	40.2
	Progressive Conservative	John Oostrom	11,236	30.3
	New Democratic	Vito Cautillo	10,451	28.2
	Libertarian	Maria Sproule	336	0.9
	Marxist–Leninist	Tim Sullivan	117	0.3
Total valid votes			37,053	100.0

See also

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

External links

• York South-Weston history from the Parliament of Canada website includes election results and evolving boundary descriptions.
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada