Scarborough Southwest (provincial electoral district)

Scarborough Southwest is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

1 Geography
2 Members of Provincial Parliament
3 Election results
4 2007 electoral reform referendum
5 Sources

Geography

It covers the southwestern part of the Scarborough part of Toronto. It stretches from Lake Ontario in the south to Eglinton Avenue in the north.

It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the south by Lake Ontario, and on the north and east by a line drawn from Victoria Park Avenue northeast along the hydroelectric transmission line situated north of Craigton Drive, south along the Canadian National Railway, east along Eglinton Avenue East, south along Bellamy Road South, southwest along Kingston Road, and southeast along Bellamy Ravine Creek.

The riding includes the neighborhoods of Birch Cliff, Oakridge, Birchmount Park, Cliffside, Kennedy Park, Clairlea, Golden Mile, Ionview and Cliffcrest in Scarborough, Toronto.

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
37th	1999–2003	Dan Newman	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2007	Lorenzo Berardinetti	Liberal
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011-present

Election results

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti			-
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Chopowick			-
	New Democrat	Bruce Budd			-
	Green	Robin McKim			-
Total valid votes				100.00

Note: the 2011 election will be held on October 6, 2011.

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti	15,113	46.15	-0.78
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Crawford	8,363	25.54	-6.17
	New Democrat	Jay Sarkar	5,920	18.08	+0.14
	Green	Stefan Dixon	2,655	8.11	+6.26
	Family Coalition	Wiktor Pawel Borkowski	398	1.22	-0.35
	Libertarian	George Dance	296	0.90	-
Total valid votes			32,745	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti	17,501	46.93	+13.27
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Newman	11,826	31.71	-8.05
	New Democrat	Barbara Warner	6,688	17.94	-5.28
	Green	Andrew Strachan	689	1.85	+0.64
	Family Coalition	Ray Scott	586	1.57	+0.29
Total valid votes			37,290	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Newman	15,349	39.76	-
	Liberal	Adrian Heaps	12,992	33.66	-
	New Democrat	Michael Yorke	8,962	23.22	-
	Family Coalition	Wiktor Pawel Borkowski	495	1.28	-
	Green	Barbara Schaefer	466	1.21	-
	Natural Law	Laurence Corp	339	0.88	-
Total valid votes			38,603	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	18,860	59.2
	Mixed member proportional	12,890	40.8
	Total valid votes	31,750	100.0

Sources

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

Provincial ridings in Ontario

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See also: 2007 election • List of elections • Politics of Ontario