Hamilton East (provincial electoral district)

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

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 is considered a working class district.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

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

[edit] Election results

Hamilton East by-election, 2004
(Death of Dominic Agostino)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     New Democrat 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 C. Turmel 120 0.5
Ontario general election, 2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Liberal Dominic Agostino 16,015 52.15 -1.58
     New Democrat 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
Ontario general election, 1999
Party Candidate Votes %
     Liberal Dominic Agostino 17,891 53.73
     Progressive Conservative Pete Preston 7,414 22.26
     New Democrat Bob Sutton 6,304 18.93
     Green Jim Howlett 496 1.49
     Family Coalition Edgar Breau 386 1.16
     Communist Bob Mann 288 0.86
     Independent Julie Gordon 263 0.79
     Natural Law Laureen Amos 258 0.77

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