Hamilton East (provincial electoral district)

For information on the Hamilton East federal electoral district, see Hamilton East (electoral district).

Hamilton East is a former provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 2007, when it was redistributed between the new ridings of Hamilton Centre and Hamilton East—Stoney Creek. It was originally created from the old riding of Hamilton, split in 1894 to create Hamilton East and Hamilton West.

It was considered a working class district.

History

This riding elected the first Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to the Ontario legislature: Samuel Lawrence in the 1934 provincial election. The riding had previously elected Ontario's first ever provincial Labour MLA Allan Studholme in a 1906 by-election. Studholme remained in office until his death in 1919 when he was succeeded in by another Labour MLA, George Grant Halcrow (1919–1923).

It was last represented provincially by Andrea Horwath of the Ontario New Democratic Party. In the 2007 election, Horwath was reelected in the successor riding of Hamilton Centre.

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Hamilton East by-election, 2004
(Death of Dominic Agostino)
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
New Democratic	Andrea Horwath	15,185	63.6
Liberal	Ralph Agostino	6,362	26.6
Progressive Conservative	Tara Crugnale	1,772	7.4
Green	Raymond Dartsch	448	1.9	–
Independent	John Turmel	120	0.5

Ontario general election, 2003
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Dominic Agostino	16,015	52.15	-1.58
New Democratic	Bob Sutton	9,035	29.42	10.49
Progressive Conservative	Sohail Bhatti	4,033	13.13	-9.13
Green	Raymond Dartsch	563	1.83	+0.34
Communist	Bob Mann	380	1.24	+0.38
Independent	Kelly Greenaway	378	1.23
Family Coalition	Michael Izzotti	304	0.99	-0.17