Trinity—Spadina

For the provincial electoral district, see Trinity—Spadina (provincial electoral district).

Trinity—Spadina

Ontario electoral district
Trinity—Spadina in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Olivia Chow New Democratic
District created	1987
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	144,733
Electors (2011)	96,793
Area (km²)[2]	18.55
Pop. density (per km²)	7,802.3
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Trinity—Spadina is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.

It generally encompasses the western portion of Downtown Toronto. In the 2001 Canadian census, the riding had 106,094 people, of whom 74,409 were eligible to vote.

Its federal Member of Parliament (MP) is Olivia Chow of the New Democratic Party. She defeated Tony Ianno of the Liberal Party of Canada in the January 23, 2006 election. The riding has long been a battle ground between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP recently winning both federally and provincially.

Major landmarks within the riding include the western portion of the University of Toronto, the CN Tower, Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), Air Canada Centre, the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, the Toronto Eaton Centre, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto City Hall, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Christie Pits, Trinity Bellwoods Park, the southern portion of Bay Street and Palmerston Boulevard.

The riding contains the heart of Toronto's Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, and Little Portugal. The northern section of the riding is the trendy Annex district, while the eastern edge contains part of the University of Toronto and thousands of students.

Demographics

Average family income: $81,415 (2001)
Median family income: $50,047
Unemployment: 6.7%
Language, mother tongue: English 52%, French 2%, Other 46%
Religion: Catholic 32%, Protestant 15%, Buddhist 5%, Jewish 4%, Muslim 3%, No religious affiliation 33%, Other 7%
Visible Minority: Chinese 18%, Black 4% South Asian 3%, Filipino 2%, Southeast Asian 2%, Korean 2%, Others 6%

Geography

It consists of the Toronto Islands and the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, and on the west, north and east by a line drawn from the harbour north on Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north on Dufferin, east on Queen Street West, southeast along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, north along Dovercourt Road, east along Dundas Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, east along the Canadian Pacific Railway situated north of Dupont Street, south along Avenue Road and Queens Park Crescent West, east along College Street and south along Yonge Street to the Harbour.

These borders were somewhat changed in the 2004 redistribution. The northwestern corner, a somewhat pro-NDP area was lost to Davenport. A large, but mostly business area of Toronto Centre—Rosedale between University Avenue and Yonge St. was given to the riding. This region tends to support the Liberals. The Toronto Islands were also added to the riding from Toronto Centre—Rosedale. This area is very strongly NDP and while it has a small population it is a highly activist one that provides many campaign workers for the New Democrats.

History

The riding was created in 1987 from Trinity and Spadina, and smaller parts of Toronto Centre—Rosedale and Parkdale—High Park.

It consisted initially of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, on the east by Avenue Road, Queen's Park Crescent West, University Avenue and York Street, and on the west and north by a line drawn from the harbour north along Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north along Atlantic Avenue, southeast along the Canadian National Railway line, north along Dovercourt Road, east along Bloor Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, and east along the Canadian Pacific Railway line to Avenue Road.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Trinity, Spadina, Toronto Centre—Rosedale, and Parkdale—High Park prior to 1987
34th	1988–1993		Dan Heap	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997		Tony Ianno	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008		Olivia Chow	New Democratic
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

2011 election

The 2011 election was not the expected close race between the incumbent NDP MP Olivia Chow and Liberal candidate, Toronto lawyer Christine Innes (wife of former MP Tony Ianno), that some observers predicted. The Liberals did not make gains here, which were anticipated by those who believed that the number of condominiums along the Toronto waterfront would bring in more centrist and right leaning voters.

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	35,601	54.51	+13.63
	Liberal	Christine Innes	15,276	23.39	-11.67
	Conservative	Gin Siow	10,976	16.81	+3.06
	Green	Rachel Barney	2,861	4.38	-4.62
	Libertarian	Chester Brown	456	0.70	-0.12
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	140	0.21	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			65,310	100.00
Total rejected ballots			301	0.46	–
Turnout			65,611	68.80	–
Eligible voters			95,363	–	–

2008 election

v t e Canadian federal election, 2008: Trinity—Spadina
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	24,442	40.88	-5.15	$87,231
	Liberal	Christine Innes	20,967	35.06	-5.08	$68,343
	Conservative	Christine McGirr	8,220	13.75	+4.74	$53,815
	Green	Stephen LaFrenie	5,383	9.00	+5.16	$12,333
	Libertarian	Chester Brown	490	0.82	–	$0
	Independent	Carlos Santos Almeida	164	0.27	–	$541
	Independent	Val Illie	130	0.22	–	$580
Total valid votes/Expense limit			59,796	100.00	–	$94,303
Total rejected ballots			–	–
Turnout			–	–

2006 election

A third battle between NDP challenger Olivia Chow and longtime Liberal incumbent Tony Ianno took place in the 2006 election. Ianno's narrow victory over Chow in 2004 had surprised most observers. Immediately after the writ was dropped for the federal election, Chow resigned her City Hall seat and vowed not to return to her previous job as municipal councillor. Chow ran a more disciplined campaign than in 2004, focusing on winning her own seat rather than lending her support to the national campaign of her husband, NDP leader Jack Layton. Ianno suffered from the broader decline in Liberal fortunes across Canada, ultimately losing to Chow by nearly six percentage points, the largest margin of victory in any of their three electoral encounters.

The strongest areas for the NDP were the Annex, Seaton Village, the University of Toronto area, Sussex-Ulster and Kensington Market. The Liberals narrowly carried Little Italy, and won the waterfront condo belt by a very wide margin.

v t e Canadian federal election, 2006: Trinity—Spadina
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	28,748	46.03	+3.99	$78,702
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	25,067	40.14	-3.41	$66,373
	Conservative	Sam Goldstein	5,625	9.01	+0.36	$22,879
	Green	Thom Chapman	2,398	3.84	-0.40	$165
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	392	0.63	-0.37	$257
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	138	0.22	+0.03	–
	Canadian Action	John Riddell	82	0.13	-0.04	$25
Total valid votes			62,450	100.00
Total rejected ballots			278	0.44	-0.17
Turnout			62,728	70.9	+7.2

2004 election

In the 2004 election, New Democrat city councillor Olivia Chow took on Tony Ianno again in what was expected to be a very competitive election. Additionally, Conservative David Watters, Green Anna Costa, Progressive Canadian Party Asif Hossain, Canadian Action Party Tristan Downe-Dewdney and Daniel Knezetic for the Popular Democratic Party contested the election.

The Popular Democratic Party was a social democratic and populist political party formed in 2003. It did not register as a political party with Elections Canada, and closed down after the 2004 election. The PDP proposed decentralization and community involvement in the political process through the creation of community councils to which any elected PDP representative would relinquish all decision making power. The party was anti-war, opposed globalization, was environmentalist, and supported full employment. Its only electoral activity was to run Daniel Knezetic, a University of Toronto student, in this election.

Unlike the 1997 battle between Chow and Ianno, this campaign largely remained civil.^{[citation needed]} Chow was outside of the riding much of the time, campaigning in other ridings due to her national prestige. Many had pegged her to win because of her high profile as the wife of NDP leader Jack Layton. On election night, most were expecting Chow to win, but Ianno won a close but certain victory.

The results surprised many. Chow captured Little Italy, long Ianno's main bedrock of support and an area that polling and sign numbers showed as going strongly for Ianno. The reverse was true of the Annex which was expected to solidly vote for Chow but did so by a fairly small margin.

Ianno won on strong turnout from the waterfront condominiums that voted overwhelmingly in favour of him.

v t e Canadian federal election, 2004: Trinity—Spadina
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	23,202	43.55	-3.86	$68,821
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	22,397	42.04	+3.87	$77,070
	Conservative	David Watters	4,605	8.64	-2.15	$34,598
	Green	Mark Viitala	2,259	4.24	+2.91	$1,330
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	531	1.00	–	$24
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	102	0.19	-0.06	$164
	Canadian Action	Tristan Alexander Downe-Dewdney	91	0.17	–	N/A
	Independent	Daniel Knezetic	89	0.17	–	$3,103
Total valid votes			53,276	100.00
Total rejected ballots			329	0.61
Turnout			53,605	63.7
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Prior elections

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,041	47.41	+2.11
	New Democratic	Michael Valpy	15,332	38.17	-2.64
	Progressive Conservative	John E. Polko	2,199	5.47	-1.48
	Alliance	Lee Monaco	2,135	5.32	+1.22
	Marijuana	Paul Lewin	640	1.59
	Green	Matthew Hammond	533	1.33	+0.36
	Marxist–Leninist	Nick Lin	101	0.25	-0.10
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	96	0.24	-0.24
	Communist	Jesse Benjamin	88	0.22
Total valid votes			40,165	100.00

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

v t e Canadian federal election, 1997: Trinity—Spadina
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	18,215	45.30	-5.84
	New Democratic	Olivia Chow	16,413	40.81	+13.83
	Progressive Conservative	Danielle Wai Mascall	2,793	6.95	-1.15
	Reform	Nolan Young	1,649	4.10	-3.73
	Green	Sat Singh Khalsa	392	0.97	-0.64
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	194	0.48	-0.53
	Independent	John Roderick Wilson	159	0.40	–
	Marxist–Leninist	J.-P. Bedard	140	0.35	+0.16
	Canadian Action	Thomas P. Beckerle	130	0.32	–
	Independent	Roberto Verdecchia	129	0.32	–
Total valid votes			40,214	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,769	51.14	+13.79
	New Democratic	Winnie Ng	10,430	26.98	-11.57
	Progressive Conservative	Lee Monaco	3,129	8.09	-13.25
	Reform	Peter Loftus	3,027	7.83
	National	Patrick Kutney	881	2.28
	Green	Chris Lea	623	1.61
	Natural Law	Ashley James Deans	391	1.01
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	283	0.73	-0.49
	Marxist–Leninist	Fernand Deschamps	74	0.19
	Abolitionist	Robert Martin	52	0.13
Total valid votes			38,659	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Dan Heap	15,565	38.55
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	15,082	37.35
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Pimentel	8,618	21.34
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	494	1.22
	Rhinoceros	John Douglas	444	1.10
	Independent	Sukhdev S. Grewal	127	0.31
	Independent	Charles Shrybman	49	0.12
Total valid votes			40,379	100.00

See also

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

References

• "(Code 35095) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03. 

Notes

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• 2008 results from Elections Canada
• 2011 results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

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