Hamilton East (provincial 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.

For information on the Hamilton East federal electoral district, see Hamilton East (electoral district).

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 Provincial Parliament

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 Democratic	Andrea Horwath	15,185	63.6
	Liberal	Ralph Agostino	6,362	26.6
	Progressive Conservative	Tara Crugnale	1,772	7.4
	Green	Raymond Dartsch	448	1.9	–
	Independent	John Turmel	120	0.5

2003 Ontario general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Dominic Agostino	16,015	52.15	-1.58
	New Democratic	Bob Sutton	9,035	29.42	10.49
	Progressive Conservative	Sohail Bhatti	4,033	13.13	-9.13
	Green	Raymond Dartsch	563	1.83	+0.34
	Communist	Bob Mann	380	1.24	+0.38
	Independent	Kelly Greenaway	378	1.23
	Family Coalition	Michael Izzotti	304	0.99	-0.17

1999 Ontario general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Dominic Agostino	17,891	53.73
	Progressive Conservative	Pete Preston	7,414	22.26
	New Democratic	Bob Sutton	6,304	18.93
	Green	Jim Howlett	496	1.49
	Family Coalition	Edgar Breau	386	1.16
	Communist	Bob Mann	288	0.86
	Independent	Julie Gordon	263	0.79
	Natural Law	Laureen Amos	258	0.77

External links

• Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results
• Elections Ontario information for Hamilton East (provincial)