Carleton East

Carleton East was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 1967 election and was abolished in 1999 into Carleton—Gloucester and Ottawa—Vanier.

Carleton East

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1967
District abolished	1999
First contested	1967
Last contested	1995
Demographics
Census divisions	Carleton County (1967-1968) Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (1968-1999)
Census subdivisions	Gloucester, Osgoode (1967-1975), Ottawa, Rockcliffe Park

From 1986 until its abolition in 1998, the riding included most of the (now former) City of Gloucester, except the area north of Leitrim Road between Limebank Road and Conroy Road and the area north of the Queensway and west of Blair Road. Carleton East also included the (now former) Village of Rockcliffe Park and the City of Ottawa north of Montreal Road and east of Rockcliffe Park.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Carleton East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Created from Russell before the 1967 election
28th	1967–1971		Bert Lawrence	Progressive Conservative
29th	1971–1974
	1974–1975		Paul Frederick Taylor	Liberal
30th	1975–1977		Evelyn Gigantes	New Democratic
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985		Bob MacQuarrie	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1985–1987		Gilles Morin	Liberal
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]
Merged into Carleton—Gloucester and Ottawa—Vanier before the 1999 election

Election results

1995 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gilles Morin	17,780	48.19	-5.68
	Progressive Conservative	Jeff Slater	13,571	36.79	+22.32
	New Democratic	Fiona Faucher	4,783	12.96	-15.24
	Natural Law	Ian A. G. Campbell	758	2.05
Total valid votes			36,892	99.19
Total rejected ballots			302	0.81	-0.23
Turnout			37,194	60.34	-3.18
Eligible voters			61,643
	Liberal hold		Swing		-14.00
Source: Elections Ontario[2]

1990 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gilles Morin	19,059	53.88	-10.21
	New Democratic	Joan Gullen	9,976	28.20	+9.30
	Progressive Conservative	Judy Corbishley	5,117	14.46	+0.31
	Family Coalition	Andre Lafrance	1,224	3.46	+0.59
Total valid votes			35,376	98.96
Total rejected ballots			371	1.04
Turnout			35,747	63.52
Eligible voters			56,279
	Liberal hold		Swing		-9.76
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

1987 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gilles Morin	20,706	64.09	+15.95
	New Democratic	Joan Gullen	6,105	18.90	+0.59
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Saumure	4,572	14.15	-19.41
	Family Coalition	Andre Lafrance	926	2.87
Total valid votes			32,309
	Liberal hold		Swing		+7.68

1985 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gilles Morin	23,221	48.14	+14.19
	Progressive Conservative	Bob MacQuarrie	16,188	33.56	-4.47
	New Democratic	Joan Gullen	8,829	18.30	-9.72
Total valid votes			48,238
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+9.33

1981 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bob MacQuarrie	15,714	38.03	+5.12
	Liberal	Bernard Grandmaitre	14,028	33.95	+1.63
	New Democratic	Evelyn Gigantes	11,579	28.02	-6.75
Total valid votes			41,321
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+5.93

1977 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Evelyn Gigantes	12,733	34.77	-1.25
	Progressive Conservative	Darwin Kealey	12,052	32.91	+4.11
	Liberal	Ed Ryan	11,837	32.32	-2.86
Total valid votes			36,622
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-2.68

1975 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Evelyn Gigantes	11,982	36.02	+0.31
	Liberal	Paul F. Taylor	11,701	35.18	-1.41
	Progressive Conservative	Darwin Kealey	9,579	28.20	+1.10
Total valid votes			33,262
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+0.86

Ontario provincial by-election, September 30, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul F. Taylor	9,989	36.59	+4.58
	New Democratic	Evelyn Gigantes	9,749	35.71	+14.29
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Benoit	7,562	27.70	-18.87
Total valid votes			27,300
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+11.72

1971 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Lawrence	13,190	46.56	-13.67
	Liberal	Fred Barrett	9,067	32.01	-0.65
	New Democratic	Jean Usher	6,069	21.43	+14.32
Total valid votes			28,326
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-6.51

1967 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Lawrence	9,111	60.24
	Liberal	Eugene Bellemare	4,939	32.65
	New Democratic	Elaine Lund	1,075	7.11
Total valid votes			15,125

References

1. For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
   • For Bert Lawrence's Legislative Assembly information see "Bert Lawrence, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
   • For Paul Frederick Taylor's Legislative Assembly information see "Paul Frederick Taylor, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
   • For Evelyn Gigantes's Legislative Assembly information see "Evelyn Gigantes, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
   • For Bob McQuarrie's Legislative Assembly information see "Bob McQuarrie, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
   • For Gilles Morin's Legislative Assembly information see "Gilles Morin, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
2. "Official Return from the Records". Elections Ontario. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
3. "Official Return from the Records". Elections Ontario. Retrieved 23 December 2019.