Oakwood (provincial electoral district)
Oakwood was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 1975 provincial election, and was retained until redistribution in 1999. It was abolished into Davenport, Eglinton—Lawrence, York South—Weston and St. Paul's. Oakwood was located in York, which was previously part of Metropolitan Toronto and is now part of the City of Toronto.
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|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| District created | 1975 |
| District abolished | 1997 |
| First contested | 1975 |
| Last contested | 1999 |
| Demographics | |
| Census divisions | Toronto |
| Census subdivisions | Toronto |
Oakwood was a fairly safe seat for the New Democratic Party for most of its existence, although the Liberals won in 1987 and 1995. Both Liberal MPPs, Chaviva Hošek and Mike Colle, served in the Ontario cabinet at one time or another.
The longest-serving member for Oakwood was Tony Grande, who held the seat from 1975 to 1987. Tony Rizzo, elected in 1990, was forced to sit as an Independent MP for twenty months after it was disclosed that his construction firm had been charged with violating Ontario's labour code in 1989. He returned to caucus in 1992.[1]
The riding had large Italian and Portuguese communities, and there was a significant increase in Caribbean immigrants during the 1980s.[2]
Members of Provincial Parliament
| Oakwood | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Created from parts of York South and York-Forest Hill ridings in 1975 | ||||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | Tony Grande | New Democratic | |
| 31st | 1977–1981 | |||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | |||
| 34th | 1987–1990 | Chaviva Hosek | Liberal | |
| 35th | 1990–1995 | Tony Rizzo[nb 1] | New Democratic | |
| 36th | 1995–1999 | Michael Colle | Liberal | |
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[3] | ||||
| Merged into Davenport, Eglinton—Lawrence, York South—Weston and St. Paul's (1999) | ||||
Electoral results
1975 boundaries
| Party | Candidate | Votes[4][nb 2] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 7,302 | 40.3 | |
| Liberal | Richard Meagher | 5,939 | 32.8 | |
| Conservative | J.A. Marrese | 4,619 | 25.5 | |
| Communist | Val Bjarnason | 267 | 1.5 | |
| Total | 18,127 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes[5][nb 3] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 9,390 | 43.3 | |
| Conservative | Fergy Brown | 6,550 | 30.2 | |
| Liberal | Richard Meagher | 5,128 | 23.6 | |
| Independent | Willis Cummins | 238 | 1.7 | |
| Communist | Val Bjarnason | 232 | 1.7 | |
| Libertarian | Alex Eaglesham | 153 | 0.7 | |
| Total | 21,691 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes[6] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 9,235 | 45.0 | |
| Conservative | Harriet Wolman | 6,241 | 30.4 | |
| Liberal | Jean Gammage | 4,401 | 21.4 | |
| Communist | Nan McDonald | 654 | 3.2 | |
| Total | 20,531 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes[7] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 11,076 | 42.3 | |
| Liberal | Joe Ricciuti | 10,093 | 38.5 | |
| Conservative | Harriet Wolman | 4,663 | 17.8 | |
| Communist | Mike Sterling | 366 | 1.4 | |
| Total | 26,198 |
1987 boundaries
| Party | Candidate | Votes[8][nb 4] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Chaviva Hošek | 12,586 | 48.5 | |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 10,938 | 42.1 | |
| Conservative | Irene Paparo-Stein | 1,741 | 6.7 | |
| Communist | Geoff da Silva | 689 | 2.7 | |
| Total | 25,954 |
| 1990 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Tony Rizzo | 10,572 | 48.9 | |||||
| Liberal | Chaviva Hošek | 8,196 | 37.9 | |||||
| Conservative | Claudio Lewis | 1,712 | 7.9 | |||||
| Green | Steven Peck | 589 | 2.7 | |||||
| Libertarian | John Primerano | 359 | 1.7 | |||||
| Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 206 | 1.0 | |||||
| Total | 21,634 | |||||||
| 123 out of 134 polls reporting. | ||||||||
| "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1990-09-07. p. A10. | ||||||||
| 1995 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Mike Colle | 8,599 | 42.3 | |||||
| New Democratic | Tony Rizzo | 7,624 | 37.5 | |||||
| Conservative | Courtney Doldron | 3,298 | 16.2 | |||||
| Independent | Joseph Flexer | 301 | 1.7 | |||||
| Green | Constantine Kritsonis | 269 | 1.3 | |||||
| Natural Law | Doug Storey | 136 | 0.7 | |||||
| Libertarian | Nunzio Venuto | 100 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total | 20,327 | |||||||
| "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 1995-06-08. Retrieved 2012-09-04. | ||||||||
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References
Notes
- Sat as an Independent from October 10, 1990 to June 09, 1992.
- 136 out of 137 polls reporting.
- 140 out of 144 polls reporting.
- 110 out of 118 polls reporting.
Citations
- "New no-fault insurance plan to be ready by January", Toronto Star, 10 September 1992, A14; Catherine Thompson, "Ferguson not a priority with NDP colleagues", Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 17 March 1993, A1.
- John Ferri, "Oakwood issues are sewers, roads not the leaders", Toronto Star, 9 August 1987, A6.
- For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Tony Grande's Legislative Assembly information see "Anthony William Grande, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- For Chaviva Hošek's Legislative Assembly information see "Chaviva Milada Hošek, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- For Tony Rizzo's Legislative Assembly information see "Tony Rizzo, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- For Mike Colle's Legislative Assembly information see "Mike Colle, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- Canadian Press (1975-09-19). "Results from the 29 ridings in Metro". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. A18.
- Canadian Press (1977-06-10). "How they voted in Metro area". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. A10.
- Canadian Press (1981-03-20). "Election results for Metro Toronto ridings". The Windsor Star. Windsor, Ontario. p. 22. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- Canadian Press (1985-05-03). "The night the Tories tumbled; riding by riding results". Ottawa Citizen. Toronto. p. 43. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1987-09-11. p. A12.
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