Toronto Southwest
Ontario electoral district
Toronto Southwest in relation to other Toronto ridings in 1914
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Ontario
District created1914
District abolished1926
First contested1914
Last contested1923

Toronto Southwest was an Ontario provincial electoral district in the old City of Toronto's west-end. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 until 1926, when it was abolished and redistributed into the Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick districts.[1] It had two seats in the Legislature: Seat A and Seat B.

Boundaries

Toronto Southwest's boundaries remained the same for the three elections that it was contested; and gaining a significant boost in eligible voters in 1919, when women and underage soldiers were given the right to vote for the first time.[2] The northern boundary was College Street, starting at Lansdowne Avenue, across. It then went southwards along its eastern border on the western edge of University Avenue to Simcoe Street and then to Lake Ontario. It also included the Toronto Islands. The western border picked up on land on Dunn Avenue and then jogged west on the north side of Queen Street West to the east side of Lansdowne Avenue. It continued north on Lansdowne to the south side of College Street.[3]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Parliament Years Member Party
prior to 1914 part of Toronto South and Toronto West ridings
Seat A
14th 1914–1916     J.J. Foy[nb 1] Conservative
1916–1919     Hartley Dewart Liberal
15th 1919–1923
16th 1923–1926     James Arthur McCausland Conservative
Seat B
14th 1914–1919     George Horace Gooderham Conservative
15th 1919–1923     John Carman Ramsden Liberal
16th 1923–1926     Frederick George McBrien Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[4]
merged into
Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, St. Patrick
after 1926

Election results

Elections were run as separate races for Seat A and Seat B rather than a combined race.

Seat A

1914 Ontario general election
Party Candidate Votes[5] Vote %
    Conservative J.J. Foy 3,631 58.1
    Liberal Maybee[nb 2] 2,228 35.7
    Independent Columbo[nb 2] 389 6.2
Total 6,248
By-election 21 August 1916
Party Candidate Votes[6] Vote %
    Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 2,705 50.6
    Conservative J.A. Norris 2,062 38.6
    Socialist J.M. Conner 445 8.3
    Independent-Liberal Gordon Waldron 131 2.5
Total 5,343
1919 Ontario general election[nb 3]
Party Candidate Votes[7][8][nb 4] Vote %
    Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 15,471 63.8
    Conservative George Horace Gooderham 8,760 36.2
Total 24,231
1923 Ontario general election
Party Candidate Votes[9][nb 5] Vote %
    Conservative James Arthur McCausland 7,967 58.0
    Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 3,211 23.4
    Labour Malcolm L. Bruce 2,562 18.6
Total 13,740

Seat B

1914 Ontario general election
Party Candidate Votes[5] Vote %
    Conservative George Horace Gooderham 5,695 71.2
    Liberal William Raney 2,301 28.8
Total
1919 Ontario general election[nb 3]
Party Candidate Votes[7][8][nb 4] Vote %
    Liberal John Carman Ramsden 11,645 46.9
    Conservative William C. McBrien 7,228 29.1
    Labour John McDonald 5,960 24.0
Total 24,833
1923 Ontario general election
Party Candidate Votes[9] Vote %
    Conservative Frederick George McBrien 7,415 52.8
    Independent-Liberal Joseph Singer 2,306 16.4
    Liberal John MacDonald 2,209 15.7
    Liberal John Carman Ramsden 2,115 15.1
Total 14,045

References

Notes

  1. ^ Foy died in office 13 June 1916
  2. ^ a b Only last name of candidate given.
  3. ^ a b This was the first election to allow women to vote, more than doubling the vote counts in each riding.
  4. ^ a b 13 polls unreported.
  5. ^ 138 out of 146 polls reporting.

Citations

  1. ^ "Map of Toronto showing Provincial election ridings and City Limits". The Toronto Daily Star. 1926-11-06. p. 26. For a map based on this citation, look at this file [1] ((cite news)): External link in |quote= (help)
  2. ^ "The Voters' Lists of Ontario Have Doubled". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1919-09-20. p. 5.
  3. ^ "Toronto Ridings As They Are Now–How Ten Seats Are Distributed". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1914-06-12. p. 5.
  4. ^ For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
    • For James Foy's Legislative Assembly information see "James Joseph Foy, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
    • For Hubert Dewart's Legislative Assembly information see "Hubert Hartley Dewart, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
    • For James McCausland's Legislative Assembly information see "James Arthur McCausland, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
    • For George Gooderham's Legislative Assembly information see "George Horace Gooderham, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
    • For John Ramsden's Legislative Assembly information see "John Carman Ramsden, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
    • For Frederick McBrien's Legislative Assembly information see "Frederick George McBrien, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
  5. ^ a b "Large Majorities in all Toronto Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star (3rd extra edition). Toronto. 1914-06-29. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Tory Toronto deals heavy blow at sleepers in Queen's Park". The Globe. Toronto. 1916-08-22. p. 1.
  7. ^ a b "Votes figures for city ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1919-10-21. p. 3.
  8. ^ a b "Tory stronghold routed, five Liberals in Toronto". The Globe. Toronto. 1919-10-21. p. 8.
  9. ^ a b "The Vote in Toronto and the York ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1923-06-26. p. 5.
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