York West (provincial electoral district)

For the federal electoral district, see York West.

York West

Ontario electoral district
File:York West, Toronto.png York West in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Mario Sergio Liberal
District created	1999
First contested	1999
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	108,198
Electors (2011)	59,674
Area (km²)	30.56
Pop. density (per km²)	3,540.5
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

File:York West (2003 federal riding map).png

Map of York West

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

Its population was 110,384 in 2001. The district includes the northwest corner of the former city of North York, including the extreme western part of Downsview.

It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit, and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Keele Street, west along Grandravine Drive, southeast along Black Creek, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Jane Street, west along Highway 401, and northwest along the Humber River to the northern city limit.

The riding is represented by Mario Sergio in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

History

The riding was founded at the time of Confederation in 1867. It consisted of the area of York Township west of the Humber River, an area now known as Etobicoke. This riding lasted unchanged until 1963 when the area was split into four ridings, York West, Etobicoke, Lakeshore and Humber. The riding was reduced to an area south of Richview Road (later Eglinton Avenue West) and north of Bloor Street West. The boundaries changed again in 1975, with Kipling Avenue becoming its eastern boundary and Highway 401 the northern boundary, while the eastern portion of the riding became part of the new Etobicoke-Humber riding. The riding was dissolved in 1987, with parts of it joining the ridings of Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber.

The riding was reestablished in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings. It consists of parts of the old North York ridings of Yorkview and Downsview.

Members of Provincial Parliament

York West
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created
1st	1867–1871		Thomas Grahame	Conservative
2nd	1871–1875		Peter Patterson	Liberal
3rd	1875–1879
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886		John Gray	Conservative
6th	1886–1890		John Gilmour	Liberal
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898		Joseph St. John	Conservative
9th	1898–1902		William Hill	Liberal
10th	1902–1905		Joseph St. John †	Conservative
11th	1905–1907
	1907–1908		Forbes Godfrey †	Conservative
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1932
	1932–1934		Henry Isaac Price	Conservative
19th	1934–1937		William Gardhouse	Liberal
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		John Allan	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		Elmer Brandon †	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1956
	1956–1959		Leslie Rowntree	Progressive Conservative
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		John MacBeth	Progressive Conservative
30th	1975–1977		Nick Leluk	Progressive Conservative
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
Riding dissolved into Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber
Riding re-created from Yorkview and Downsview
37th	1999–2003		Mario Sergio	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present
† denotes that the member died in office.
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,867	46.63	-3.86
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	10,007	39.32	+4.50
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,778	10.92	-1.13
	Green	Keith Jarrett	418	1.64	+0.38
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	267	1.05	+0.58
	Independent	Wally Schwauss	113	0.44
Total valid votes			25,450	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.18
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,455	50.49	-4.54
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	7,901	34.82	+7.17
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,735	12.05	+1.78
	Green	Joseph Rini	287	1.26	-3.68
	Independent	Leland W. Cornell	114	0.50
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	107	0.47
	Independent	Scott Aitchison	89	0.39
Total valid votes			22,688	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			170	0.74
Turnout			22,858	39.24
Eligible voters			58,255
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.86
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	13,180	55.03	-14.28
	New Democratic	Antoni Shelton	6,622	27.65	+10.63
	Progressive Conservative	Shane O'Toole	2,459	10.27	+0.24
	Green	Sergio Pagnotta	1,184	4.94	+3.06
	Family Coalition	Julia Carvalho	277	1.16
	Independent	Ram Narula	229	0.96
Total valid votes			23,951	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,102	69.31	+5.99
	New Democratic	Garth Bobb	3,954	17.02	+4.03
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Aver	2,330	10.03	-9.54
	Green	Richard von Fuchs	437	1.88	+0.24
	Communist	Christopher Black	408	1.76
Total valid votes			16,177	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,457	63.32
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Collier	5,086	19.57
	New Democratic	Stephnie Payne	3,377	12.99
	Green	Anthony Davison	427	1.64
	Natural Law	Mark Scrafford	299	1.15
	Independent	S. Nicholas C. Lin	194	0.75
	Independent	Rosemary Ann Ray	149	0.57
Total valid votes			25,989	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	12,010	54.4
	Mixed member proportional	10,054	45.6
	Total valid votes	22,064	100.0

External links

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results