PARKDALE—HIGH PARK

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'Parkdale—High Park' is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
It is located in the central-west part of Toronto on the lakefront. It has 106,559 residents. It is centred on Roncesvalles Village, and includes several kilometres of the city on either side of Roncesvalles Avenue. The street also serves as a boundary between the two namesake neighbourhoods of the riding. To the east of Roncesvalles is Parkdale; High Park is to the west.
It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by the Humber River, and on the north and east by a line drawn from the Humber River east along the Canadian Pacific Railway, southeast along the Canadian National/Canadian Pacific Railway, west along Queen Street West, south along Dufferin Street, west along Dufferin Street, and south along the southerly production of Spencer Avenue.
The current federal Member of Parliament (MP) as of January 23rd, 2006 is Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Cheri DiNovo, also of the NDP, is the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) as of September 14th, 2006.

Contents

Federal electoral district

Members of Parliament

Former boundaries

Federal election results

Provincial electoral district

Members of Provincial Parliament

Provincial election results

See also

External links

Federal electoral district

The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Parkdale, High Park—Humber Valley, Davenport and Spadina ridings.
In 1976, it was defined to consist of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by the shore of Lake Ontario,
on the north and west by the city limits, on the east by a line drawn from north to south along Runnymede Road, east along Annette Street, south along Keele Street, east along Humberside Avenue, southeast along the Canadian National Railway, south along Bathurst Street; thence southerly along Bathurst Street to the Western Channel of Toronto Harbour.
In 1987, it was defined to consist of the parts of the cities of Toronto and York bounded on the west by the city limits of Toronto and York, and on the north, east and south by a line drawn east along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, south along Runnymede Road, east along Annette Street, southeast along Dundas Street West, east along Dupont Street, southwest along the Canadian National Railway line immediately east of Dundas Street West, south along Atlantic Avenue, west along the Gardiner Expressway, south along the southerly production of Spencer Avenue.
In 1996, it was defined to consist of the parts of the cities of Toronto and York bounded on the west by the city limits of Toronto and York, and on the north, east and south by a line drawn east along the Canadian Pacific Railway, southeast along the Canadian National Railway, south along Atlantic Avenue, west along the Gardiner Expressway, and south along the southerly production of Spencer Avenue.
In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
#Jesse Flis, Liberal Party of Canada (1979-1984)
#Andrew Witer, Progressive Conservative (1984-1988)
#Jesse Flis, Liberal Party of Canada (1988-1997)
#Sarmite Bulte, Liberal Party of Canada (1997-2006)
#Peggy Nash, New Democratic Party (2006-present)

Former boundaries

Federal election results

|-
|Peggy Nash
|align=right|20,690
|-
|Sarmite Bulte
|align=right|18,489
|-
|Jurij Klufas
|align=right|8,767
|-
|Robert L. Rishchynski
|align=right|2,820
|-
|Terry Parker
|align=right|311
|-
|Lorne Gershuny
|align=right|133
|-
|Sarmite Bulte
|align=right|19,727
|-
|Peggy Nash
|align=right|16,201
|-
|Jurij Klufas
|align=right|7,221
|-
|Neil Spiegel
|align=right|3,249
|-
|Terry Parker
|align=right|384
|-
|Lorne Gershuny
|align=right|130
|-
|Sarmite Bulte
|align=right|20,676
|-
|Paul Schmidt
|align=right|7,947
|-
|David Strycharz
|align=right|5,681
|-
|Vicki Vancas
|align=right|4,882
|-
|Neil Spiegel
|align=right|1,161
|-
|Terry Parker
|align=right|775
|-
|Greg Robertson
|align=right|317
|-
|Wilfred Szczesny
|align=right|155
|-
|Michel Dugré
|align=right|132
|-
|Lorne Gershuny
|align=right|122
|-
|Sarmite Bulte
|align=right|20,692
|-
|Paul Schmidt
|align=right|8,762
|-
|Jilian Saweczko
|align=right|5,926
|-
|Michael Jakubcak
|align=right|5,881
|-
|Laura Weinberg
|align=right|696
|-
|Miriam Hawkins
|align=right|324
|-
|Pierre Chénier
|align=right|311
|-
|Gregory Wayne Roberts
|align=right|267
|-
|Jesse Flis
|align=right|22,068
|-
|Lee Primeau
|align=right|6,520
|-
|Don Baker
|align=right|5,519
|-
|David Miller
|align=right|3,775
|-
|Stephen A. Biega
|align=right|1,308
|-
|Richard Roy
|align=right|461
|-
|Wanda Beaver
|align=right|369
|-
|Haig Baronikian
|align=right|314
|-
|Miguel Figueroa
|align=right|105
|-
|Thomas Earl Pennington
|align=right|60
|-
|André Vachon
|align=right|53
|-
|Jesse Flis
|align=right|19,614
|-
|Andrew Witer
|align=right|16,418
|-
|Anna Pollonetsky
|align=right|8,002
|-
|Penny Hoar
|align=right|267
|-
|Matthew Hall (politician)
|align=right|227
|-
|Anna Larsen
|align=right|130
|-
|Andrew Witer
|align=right|15,879
|-
|Jesse Flis
|align=right|14,419
|-
|John Friesen
|align=right|8,232
|-
|Dieter Heinrich
|align=right|592
|-
|Wilf Olin
|align=right|223
|-
|Anna Larsen
|align=right|130
|-
|Jesse Flis
|align=right|17,213
|-
|Andrew Witer
|align=right|12,116
|-
|Doug Little
|align=right|8,094
|-
|Wilfred Szczesny
|align=right|160
|-
|Shirley Yamada
|align=right|146
|-
|Christine Nugent
|align=right|55
|-
|Jesse Flis
|align=right|15,281
|-
|Yuri Shymko
|align=right|15,207
|-
|Doug Little
|align=right|9,539
|-
|Vincent H. Miller
|align=right|250
|-
|Kerry McQuaig
|align=right|168
|-
|Armand Siksna
|align=right|61
|-
|Christine Nugent
|align=right|52

Provincial electoral district

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

Members of Provincial Parliament

#Gerard Kennedy, Liberal (1999-2006)
#Cheri DiNovo, New Democratic Party (2006-present)

Provincial election results

|-
|Cheri DiNovo
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|-
|Sylvia Watson
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|-
|David Hutcheon
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|-
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
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|}
'September 14, 2006 by-election'
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="7"|September 14, 2006 by-election
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
! style="width: 40px"|Campaign website
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Cheri DiNovo
|align=right| 11,675
|align=right| 41.0
|align=right| +25.2
|[1]
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
|Sylvia Watson
|align=right| 9,387
|align=right| 33.0
|align=right| -24.8
|[2]
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|David Hutcheon
|align=right| 4,921
|align=right| 17.3
|align=right| +1.1
|[3]
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Frank De Jong
|align=right| 1,758
|align=right| 6.2
|align=right| -0.7
|[4]
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Family Coalition
| Stan Grzywna
|align=right| 366
|align=right| 1.3
|align=right| -0.2
|align=right|
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Libertarian
| Jim McIntosh
|align=right| 162
|align=right| 0.6
|align=right| -
|align=right|
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Freedom
|Silvio Ursomarzo
|align=right| 111
|align=right| 0.4
|align=right| 0.0
|[5]
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Independent
|John C. Turmel
|align=right| 77
|align=right| 0.3
|align=right| -
|
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 2003
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
|Gerard Kennedy
|align=right|23,008
|align=right|57.8
|align=right| +2.9
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Stephen Snell
|align=right|6,436
|align=right|16.2
|align=right| -14.0
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Margo Duncan
|align=right|6,275
|align=right|15.8
|align=right| +4.0
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Neil Spiegel
|align=right|2,758
|align=right|6.9
|align=right| +5.7
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Family Coalition
|Stan Grzywna
|align=right|591
|align=right|1.5
|align=right| +0.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Communist
|Karin Larsen
|align=right|349
|align=right|0.9
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Independent
|John Steele
|align=right|204
|align=right|0.5
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Freedom
|Dick Field
|align=right|165
|align=right|0.4
|align=right| -
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 1999
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
|Gerard Kennedy
|align=right|23,022
|align=right|54.9
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Annamarie Castrilli
|align=right|12,647
|align=right|30.2
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Irene Atkinson
|align=right|4,937
|align=right|11.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Frank de Jong
|align=right|500
|align=right|1.2
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Libertarian
|Doug Burn
|align=right|325
|align=right|0.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Family Coalition
|Stan Grzywna
|align=right|289
|align=right|0.7
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Independent
|Jorge Van Schouwen
|align=right|99
|align=right|0.2
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Natural Law
|Lynne Hea
|align=right|99
|align=right|0.2

See also

★ List of Canadian federal electoral districts

★ Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

★ Riding history from the Library of Parliament

★ Elections Ontario 1999 results and 2003 results

★ Parkdale--High Park section of the Digital Copyright Canada forum

★ Parkdale-High Park Green Party

★ Parkdale-High Park Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Riding Association

★ Parkdale-High Park NDP Riding Association

★ DemocraticSPACE Parkdale-High Park By-Election Page