York South—Weston (provincial electoral district)

It is in the west-end of Toronto. The riding has a largely working class and immigrant population. The riding is made up largely of the old City of York, a southwestern portion of the old city of North York, and parts of the old city of Toronto north of High Park.^[1]

It consists of 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.^[1]

History

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings. Prior to that redistribution, the area included York South and parts of what are now Parkdale-High Park, Davenport, and Eglinton-Lawrence. They became law after Bill 214 (2005), otherwise known as the "Representations Act, 2005",was passed in the Ontario Legislature.^[2] The October 10, 2007 provincial election was conducted using the new boundaries, with only minor changes to the boundaries in the south-east corner of the riding, along the border with the Davenport riding.^[3]

1999 electoral district description

York South—Weston consisting of those parts of the cities of North York, Toronto and York described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of the City of North York with the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (Highway No. 401); thence easterly along the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway to the Canadian National Railway situated immediately west of Caledonia Road; thence southerly along said railway to Rogers Road; thence westerly along Rogers Road to Old Weston Road; thence southerly along Old Weston Road to the northerly limit of the City of Toronto; thence westerly along the northerly limit of the City of Toronto to the Canadian National Railway; thence southeasterly along said railway to the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence westerly along the Canadian Pacific Railway to the westerly limit of the City of York; thence generally northerly along the westerly limit of the cities of York and North York to the point of commencement.^[4]

Members of Provincial Parliament

York South—Weston
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created
37th	1999 − 2003		Joe Cordiano	Liberal
38th	2003 − 2007		Joe Cordiano	Liberal
38th	2007 − 2007		Paul Ferreira	New Democratic
39th	2007 − 2011		Laura Albanese	Liberal
40th	2011 − 2014
41st	2014 − Present
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[5]

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Preliminary results — Not yet official
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Laura Albanese	15,719	47.99	+3.44
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	12,147	37.08	-5.40
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Ffrench	3,672	11.21	+0.11
	Green	Jessica Higgins	826	2.52	+0.99
	Freedom	Eric Compton	250	0.76	+0.27
	Independent	Abi Issa	144	0.44
Total valid votes			32,758	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+4.42
Source: Elections Ontario^[6]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Laura Albanese	13,805	44.55	+1.61
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	13,071	42.18	+0.64
	Progressive Conservative	Lan Daniel	3,441	11.10	+1.26
	Green	Keith Jarrett	474	1.53	-2.27
	Freedom	Eric Compton	151	0.49
	Independent	Michael Radejewski	45	0.15
Total valid votes			30,987	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			227	0.73
Turnout			31,214	44.86
Eligible voters			69,580
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.49
Source: Elections Ontario^[7]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Laura Albanese	13,846	42.94	+1.5
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	13,394	41.54	-1.79
	Progressive Conservative	Karen McMillan-Aver	3,173	9.84	-0.43
	Green	Anthony Gratl	1,226	3.80	+2.41
	Libertarian	Marco Dias	385	1.19	+0.67
	Family Coalition	Mariangela Sanabria	218	0.68	-0.06
Total valid votes			32,242	100.0

Ontario provincial by-election, February 8, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Paul Ferreira	8,188	43.33	+24.04
	Liberal	Laura Albanese	7,830	41.44	-20.12
	Progressive Conservative	Pina Martino	1,941	10.27	-4.96
	Green	Mir Kamal	262	1.39	-1.06
	Independent	Kevin Clarke	220	1.16
	Independent	Mohammed Choudhary	142	0.75
	Family Coalition	Mariangela Sanabria	139	0.74	-0.73
	Libertarian	Nunzio Venuto	98	0.52
	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	77	0.41
Total valid votes			18,897	100.0

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Joseph Cordiano	19,932	61.56	+8.17
	New Democratic	Brian Donlevy	6,247	19.29	-0.8
	Progressive Conservative	Stephen Halicki	4,930	15.23	-6.68
	Green	Enrique Palad	794	2.45	+2.02
	Family Coalition	Mariangela Sanabria	475	1.47	-0.12
Total valid votes			32,378	100.0

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Joseph Cordiano	18,205	53.39
	Progressive Conservative	Alan Hofmeister	7,471	21.91
	New Democratic	Rosana Pellizzari	6,850	20.09
	Family Coalition	Enzo Granzotto	542	1.59
	Independent	David Gershuny	486	1.43
	Communist	Hassan Husseini	261	0.77
	Green	Alma Subasic	147	0.43
	Natural Law	Erica Kindl	139	0.41
Total valid votes			34,101	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	16,842	56.4
	Mixed member proportional	12,998	43.6
	Total valid votes	29,840	100.0

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "York South Weston electoral boundaries". Elections Canada, Government of Canada. 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
↑ "Bill 214 2005 An Act to amend the Election Act,the Election Finances Act and the Legislative Assembly Act, to repeal the Representation Act, 1996 and to enact the Representation Act, 2005". Journals and Procedural Research Branch Office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-12-14. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
↑ "New electoral boundaries". Elections Ontario, Government of Ontario. 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2007-01-19.
↑ "York South Weston electoral boundaries". Elections Canada, Government of Canada. 1996. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
↑
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Joe Cordiano's Legislative Assembly information see "Joseph Cordiano, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Paul Ferreira's Legislative Assembly information see "Paul Ferreira, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- For Laura Albanese's Legislative Assembly information see "Laura Albanese, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
↑ "General Election Results by District, 106 Welland". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiel - York South—Weston" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

Sources

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

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