Rosedale_(electoral_district)

Toronto Centre
Ontario electoral district
	Toronto Centre in relation to other Toronto ridings (2015 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Marci Ien; Liberal
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District created	1933
First contested	1935
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)	119,901
Electors (2020)	81,861
Area (km²)	5.84
Pop. density (per km²)	20,531
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

Toronto Centre (federal electoral district)

Federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada

Toronto Centre (French: Toronto-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1925, and since 1935, under the names Centre Toronto (1872–1903), Toronto Centre (1903–1925, and since 2004), Rosedale (1935–1997), and Toronto Centre—Rosedale (1997–2004).

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Toronto Centre contains a large part of Downtown Toronto. The riding contains areas such as Regent Park (Canada's first social housing development), St. James Town (a largely immigrant area and the most densely populated neighbourhood in Canada), Cabbagetown, Church and Wellesley (a historic LGBTQ2 neighbourhood), Toronto Metropolitan University, the Toronto Eaton Centre and part of the city's financial district (the east side of Bay Street). At just under 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi), it is the smallest riding in Canada by area.

History

Centre Toronto riding was first created in 1872 from portions of West Toronto and East Toronto. In 1903, the name was changed to Toronto Centre. In 1924, the riding was broken into Toronto East Centre, Toronto West Centre and Toronto South.

A riding covering much the same area was created in 1933 named "Rosedale" after the wealthy neighbourhood of Rosedale. This riding was replaced with "Toronto Centre—Rosedale" in 1996, but the quickly growing population resulted in large areas being shaved off on all sides. In 2003, Toronto Centre—Rosedale was abolished, and a new riding somewhat to the east was created named "Toronto Centre".

Each of the four major national political parties (the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Green Party, and the NDP), have active federal and provincial riding associations which act as the local party organizations in the riding. Since the early 1990s, however, most contests have been between the Liberals and NDP.

This riding lost territory to University—Rosedale and Spadina—Fort York, and gained a small fraction of territory from Trinity—Spadina during the 2012 electoral redistribution. This made Toronto Centre the smallest size riding in the country, beating Papineau in Montreal by 4 km².^[2]

Historically, the riding was one of the few in central Toronto where the Progressive Conservatives usually did well. The PCs held the riding for 34 of the 58 years from 1935 to 1993. However, it has been in Liberal hands without interruption since 1993. The 2012 federal electoral redistribution shifted much of the wealthier northern part of the riding, which included Rosedale, to the new riding of University—Rosedale.^[3]

The riding was represented by former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae after the federal by-elections of March 17, 2008. Rae resigned from Parliament on July 31, 2013.^[4]^[5] Liberal Chrystia Freeland picked up the riding in the subsequent by-election, and held it until the 2015 Canadian federal election, when she chose to run for re-election in the new riding of University—Rosedale.

From 2015 to 2020, the riding was represented by Bill Morneau.^[6] On August 17, 2020, Morneau resigned as MP.^[6] Following a by-election on October 26, 2020, the riding has been represented by Marci Ien.^[7]

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Parliament	Years		Party
Centre Toronto Riding created from West Toronto and East Toronto
2nd	1872–1874	Robert Wilkes	Liberal
3rd	1874–1875	Robert Wilkes	Liberal
3rd	1875–1878	John Macdonald	Independent Liberal
4th	1878–1882	Robert Hay	Liberal
5th	1882–1887	Robert Hay	Liberal
6th	1887–1891	George Ralph Richardson Cockburn	Conservative
7th	1891–1896	George Ralph Richardson Cockburn	Conservative
8th	1896–1897	William Lount	Liberal
8th	1897–1900	George Hope Bertram	Liberal
9th	1900–1904	William Rees Brock	Conservative
Toronto Centre
10th	1904–1905	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative
10th	1905–1908	Edmund James Bristol
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Conservative
Riding dissolved into Toronto East Centre, Toronto West Centre and Toronto South
Rosedale Riding re-created from Toronto East Centre, Toronto West Centre and Toronto South
18th	1935–1940	Harry Gladstone Clarke	Conservative
19th	1940–1945	Harry Jackman	National Government
20th	1945–1949	Harry Jackman	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953	Charles Henry	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Charles Henry	Liberal
23rd	1957–1958	David James Walker	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962	David James Walker	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Donald Stovel Macdonald	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1978
30th	1978–1979	David Crombie	Progressive Conservative
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993	David MacDonald
35th	1993–1997	Bill Graham	Liberal
Toronto Centre—Rosedale
36th	1997–2000	Bill Graham	Liberal
37th	2000–2004	Bill Graham	Liberal
Toronto Centre
38th	2004–2006	Bill Graham	Liberal
39th	2006–2007	Bill Graham
39th	2008–2008	Bob Rae
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2013
41st	2013–2015	Chrystia Freeland
42nd	2015–2019	Bill Morneau
43rd	2019–2020	Bill Morneau
43rd	2020–2021	Marci Ien
44th	2021–present	Marci Ien

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Toronto Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marci Ien	23,071	50.35	+8.35	$108,727.70
	New Democratic	Brian Chang	11,909	25.99	+8.99	$58,981.25
	Conservative	Ryan Lester	5,571	12.16	+6.46	$10,494.07
	Green	Annamie Paul	3,921	8.56	–24.14	$93,340.55
	People's	Syed Jaffrey	1,047	2.29	–1.19	$0.00
	Communist	Ivan Byard	181	0.40	–	$0.00
	Animal Protection	Peter Stubbins	117	0.25	–	$4,744.99
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,817	100.00	–	$110,776.83
Total rejected ballots			366	0.79	+0.29
Turnout			46,183	57.42	+26.52
Eligible voters			80,430
	Liberal hold		Swing		–0.32
Source: Elections Canada^[9]

v t e Canadian federal by-election, October 26, 2020: Toronto Centre Resignation of Bill Morneau
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Marci Ien	10,581	42.0	-15.4	$116,839^{[citation needed]}
	Green	Annamie Paul	8,250	32.7	+25.6	$100,008^{[citation needed]}
	New Democratic	Brian Chang	4,280	17.0	-5.3	$71,222^{[citation needed]}
	Conservative	Benjamin Gauri Sharma	1,435	5.7	-6.4	$0^{[citation needed]}
	People's	Baljit Bawa	269	1.1	–	$22,752^{[citation needed]}
	Libertarian	Keith Komar	135	0.5	–
	Independent	Kevin Clarke	123	0.5	–
	Free	Dwayne Cappelletti	76	0.3	–	$1,570^{[citation needed]}
	No affiliation	Above Znoneofthe	56	0.2	–	$0^{[citation needed]}
Total valid votes			25,205	100.0	–
Total rejected ballots			118	0.5	-0.2
Turnout			25,323	30.9	-35.2
Electors on lists			81,861
	Liberal hold		Swing		-20.5
Elections Canada^[10]^[11]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Toronto Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bill Morneau	31,271	57.37	−0.53	$95,538.84
	New Democratic	Brian Chang	12,142	22.27	−4.34	$58,656.81
	Conservative	Ryan Lester	6,613	12.13	−0.06	$39,309.94
	Green	Annamie Paul	3,852	7.07	+4.47	$34,903.20
	Animal Protection	Rob Lewin	182	0.33	–	$2,171.71
	Rhinoceros	Sean Carson	147	0.27	–	–
	Independent	Jason Tavares	126	0.23	–	–
	Communist	Bronwyn Cragg	125	0.23	−0.03	$626.58
	Marxist–Leninist	Philip Fernandez	54	0.10	−0.05	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,512	99.30	–	$107,308.65
Total rejected ballots			384	0.70	+0.18
Turnout			54,896	66.08	−3.27
Eligible voters			83,076
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.90
Source: Elections Canada^[12]^[13]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bill Morneau	29,297	57.90	+18.48	$170,325.26
	New Democratic	Linda McQuaig	13,467	26.61	-9.58	$198,294.34
	Conservative	Julian Di Battista	6,167	12.19	-5.74	$22,625.73
	Green	Colin Biggin	1,315	2.60	-2.56	$3,964.97
	Independent	Jordan Stone	147	0.29	–	–
	Communist	Mariam Ahmad	133	0.26	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Philip Fernandez	76	0.15	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,602	99.48		$203,952.21
Total rejected ballots			266	0.52	–
Turnout			50,868	69.35	–
Eligible voters			73,351
Source: Elections Canada^[14]^[15]
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+14.03

Rosedale_(electoral_district)

Toronto Centre (federal electoral district)

History

Former boundaries

Demographics

Members of Parliament

Election results

Toronto Centre, 2004–present

2008

General election

By-election

Toronto Centre—Rosedale, 1996–2003

Rosedale, 1933–1996

1933–1965

Toronto Centre, 1903–1924

Centre Toronto, 1872–1903

See also

References

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2011 federal election redistributed results^[16]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	14,828	39.42
	New Democratic	13,617	36.20
	Conservative	6,746	17.93
	Green	1,942	5.16
	Others	487	1.29

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on March 17, 2008 On Bill Graham's resignation, July 2, 2007
	Liberal	Bob Rae	14,187	59.47	+7.24
	New Democratic	El-Farouk Khaki	3,312	13.88	-9.86
	Green	Chris Tindal	3,199	13.41	+8.20
	Conservative	Donald Meredith	2,939	12.32	-5.89
	Animal Alliance	Liz White	123	0.52	+0.40
	Canadian Action	Doug Plumb	97	0.41
Total valid votes			23,857	99.60
Total rejected ballots			96	0.40
Turnout			23,953	27.86
	Liberal hold		Swing	+8.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on October 16, 1978
	Progressive Conservative	David Crombie	18,732	57.95	+17.68
	Liberal	John Robert Evans	10,114	31.29	-17.84
	New Democratic	Ron B. Thomson	3,008	9.31	-0.06
	Independent	Donald M. Campbell	196	0.61
	Independent	Linda Cain	155	0.48
	Communist	Dan Goldstick	120	0.37	-0.02
Total valid votes			32,325	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on April 11, 1905
	Conservative	Edmund Bristol	acc.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on September 30, 1897
	Liberal	G.H. Bertram	2,212	52.99	+0.36
	Conservative	O.A. Howland	1,962	47.01	-0.36
Total valid votes			4,174	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on December 4, 1875
	Liberal	John MacDonald	acc.

v t e Canadian federal by-election, November 25, 2013: Toronto Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Chrystia Freeland	17,194	49.38	+8.37	$ 97,609.64
	New Democratic	Linda McQuaig	12,640	36.30	+6.09	99,230.30
	Conservative	Geoff Pollock	3,004	8.63	−14.01	75,557.39
	Green	John Deverell	1,034	2.97	−2.05	21,521.10
	Progressive Canadian	Dorian Baxter	453	1.30		–
	Libertarian	Judi Falardeau	236	0.68	+0.18	–
	Independent	Kevin Clarke	84	0.24		560.00
	Independent	John "The Engineer" Turmel	56	0.16		–
	Independent	Leslie Bory	51	0.15		633.30
	Online	Michael Nicula	43	0.12		200.00
	Independent	Bahman Yazdanfar	26	0.07	−0.12	1,134.60
Total valid votes/expense limit			34,821	99.49	–	$ 101,793.06
Total rejected ballots			177	0.51	+0.12
Turnout			34,998	37.72	−25.21
Eligible voters			92,780
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.14
By-election due to the resignation of Bob Rae.
Source(s) "November 25, 2013 By-elections Poll-by-poll results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 20, 2020. "November 25, 2013 By-election – Financial Reports". Retrieved May 9, 2014.

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bob Rae	22,832	41.01	-12.51	$ 51,672.12
	New Democratic	Susan Wallace	16,818	30.21	+15.12	18,904.44
	Conservative	Kevin Moore	12,604	22.64	+4.32	63,141.66
	Green	Ellen Michelson	2,796	5.02	-6.83	44,006.84
	Libertarian	Judi Falardeau	277	0.50		–
	Communist	Cathy Holliday	159	0.29	-0.09	502.10
	Independent	Bahman Yazdanfar	108	0.19		653.91
	Marxist–Leninist	Philip Fernandez	76	0.14	-0.04	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit/Total expenditures			55,670	99.61	$ 92,663.68	$ 178,881.07
Total rejected ballots			220	0.39	-0.10
Turnout			55,890	62.93	+5.54
Eligible voters			88,810
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.82

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bob Rae	27,462	53.53	-5.94	$ 48,353.21
	Conservative	David Gentili	9,402	18.33	+6.01	39,290.89
	New Democratic	El-Farouk Khaki	7,743	15.09	+1.21	21,305.27
	Green	Ellen Michelson	6,081	11.85	-1.56	23,041.16
	Communist	Johan Boyden	193	0.38		432.31
	Animal Alliance	Liz White	187	0.36	-0.15	685.91
	Independent	Gerald Derome	146	0.28		2,063.60
	Marxist–Leninist	Philip Fernandez	92	0.18		–
Total valid votes/Expense limit/Total Expenditures			51,306	99.50	$ 92,067.97	$ 135,172.35
Total rejected ballots			257	0.50	+0.10
Turnout			51,563	57.39	+29.52
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.97

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election: Toronto Centre
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Graham	30,336	56.53	+1.26
	New Democratic	Michael Shapcott	12,747	23.75	+12.39
	Conservative	Megan Harris	7,936	14.79	−13.00
	Green	Gabriel Draven	2,097	3.91
	Marijuana	Jay Wagner	313	0.58	−0.94
	Communist	Dan Goldstick	106	0.20	−0.05
	Marxist–Leninist	Philip Fernandez	65	0.12	−0.12
	Canadian Action	Kevin Peck	63	0.12	−2.97
Total valid votes			53,663	100.00
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.