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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

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

Hamilton Centre
Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Hamilton
8th  1894–1898     James Taylor Middleton Liberal
9th  1898–1902     Henry Carscallen Conservative
10th  1902–1905
11th  1905–1906
 1906–1908     Allan Studholme Labour
12th  1908–1911
13th  1911–1914
14th  1914–1919
15th  1919–1923 George Grant Halcrow
16th  1923–1926     Leeming Carr Conservative
17th  1926–1928
 1928–1929 William Morrison
18th  1929–1934
19th  1934–1937     Samuel Lawrence Co-operative Commonwealth
20th  1937–1943     John P. MacKay Liberal
21st  1943–1945     William Herbert Connor Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd  1945–1948     Robert Ellsworth Elliott Progressive Conservative
23rd  1948–1951     John Lawrence Dowling Co-operative Commonwealth
24th  1951–1955     Robert Ellsworth Elliott Progressive Conservative
25th  1955–1959
26th  1959–1963     Norman Davison Co-operative Commonwealth
27th  1963–1967     New Democratic
28th  1967–1971 Reg Gisborn
29th  1971–1975
30th  1975–1977 Bob Mackenzie
31st  1977–1981
32nd  1981–1985
33rd  1985–1987
34th  1987–1990
35th  1990–1995
36th  1995–1999     Dominic Agostino Liberal
37th  1999–2003
38th  2003–2004
 2004–2007     Andrea Horwath New Democratic
Riding dissolved into Hamilton Centre and
Hamilton East—Stoney Creek

Election results

Hamilton East by-election, 2004
(Death of Dominic Agostino)
Party Candidate Votes % ±
New DemocraticAndrea Horwath 15,185 63.6
LiberalRalph Agostino 6,362 26.6
Progressive ConservativeTara Crugnale 1,772 7.4
GreenRaymond Dartsch 448 1.9 –
IndependentJohn Turmel 120 0.5
Ontario general election, 2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LiberalDominic Agostino 16,015 52.15 -1.58
New DemocraticBob Sutton 9,035 29.42 10.49
Progressive ConservativeSohail Bhatti 4,033 13.13 -9.13
GreenRaymond Dartsch 563 1.83 +0.34
CommunistBob Mann 380 1.24 +0.38
IndependentKelly Greenaway 378 1.23
Family CoalitionMichael Izzotti 304 0.99 -0.17
Ontario general election, 1999
Party Candidate Votes%
LiberalDominic Agostino 17,891 53.73
Progressive ConservativePete Preston 7,414 22.26
New DemocraticBob Sutton 6,304 18.93
GreenJim Howlett 496 1.49
Family CoalitionEdgar Breau 386 1.16
CommunistBob Mann 288 0.86
IndependentJulie Gordon 263 0.79
Natural LawLaureen Amos 258 0.77
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