Toronto—Danforth

Toronto—Danforth

Ontario electoral district
Toronto—Danforth in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Vacant ()
District created	1976
First contested	1979
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	103,655
Electors (2011)	74,826
Area (km²)	26
Pop. density (per km²)	3,986.7
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

For the provincial electoral district, see Toronto—Danforth (provincial electoral district).

Map of Toronto-Danforth

Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto.

New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton was the Member of Parliament of the riding until his death on August 22, 2011. It left the seat vacant pending a by-election which must be called within six months. The southern part of the riding (Ward 30) is represented on Toronto City Council by councillor Paula Fletcher. The northern part of the riding (Ward 29) is represented by Mary Fragedakis.

Toronto—Danforth includes a vibrant array of ethnicities, including large Greek, Chinese, Muslim and South Asian communities.

It has long been one of the more left-leaning ridings in Toronto. Most election contests take place between the New Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. The NDP held the riding for the first nine years of its existence before Liberal Dennis Mills won the seat in 1988 and held it during the long period of Liberal dominance of the federal scene. He was unseated in 2004 by Layton, who had previously run against Mills in 1997.

The northern portion of the riding, East York, tends to lean right-of-centre, while the southern half, including Riverdale, Leslieville and Queen–Broadview Village, usually swings to the left.

Layton sought neighbourhood input for another name change to the riding. Layton's supposed choice was "East York—Danforth—Riverdale", but the name was not changed.

History

The riding was created in 1976 as "Broadview—Greenwood" from parts of Broadview and York East.

It consisted initially of the part of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto bounded on the south by Queen Street East, on the west by the Don River, and on the east and north by a line drawn north from Queen Street along Jones Avenue, east along Gerrard Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, west along O'Connor Drive, north along Don Mills Road to the Don River.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of Toronto and the Borough of East York bounded on the west by the Don River, on the south by Queen Street, and on the east and north by a line drawn from the lake north along Leslie Street, east along Queen Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, east along Danforth Avenue, north along Coxwell Avenue and Coxwell Boulevard, and west along Taylor Creek and the Don River East Branch to the Don River.

In 1996, it was defined to consist of the parts of the City of Toronto and the Borough of East York north along Leslie Street, east along Queen Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, east along Gerrard Street East, north along Coxwell Avenue and Coxwell Boulevard, west along Taylor Creek, the Don River East Branch and the Don River, northwest along Millwood Road, southwest along the Canadian Pacific Railway and the eastern limit of the City of Toronto, south along the Don River to Toronto Harbour.

The name of the electoral district was changed in 2000 to "Toronto—Danforth" on the suggestion of Dennis Mills, the riding's Member of Parliament. Many local citizens were upset at the name change, particularly due to the lack of public say in the matter.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries, which consist of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Lake Ontario and Toronto Harbour, on the east by Coxwell Avenue and Coxwell Boulevard, on the north by Taylor Creek and the Don River East Branch, and on the west by the Don River.

Former boundaries

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  1976 to 1987

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  1987 to 1996

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  1996 to 2003

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Broadview and York East prior to 1976
Broadview—Greenwood
31st	1979–1980		Bob Rae	New Democratic
32nd	1980–1982
	1982–1984		Lynn McDonald	New Democratic
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Dennis Mills	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
Toronto—Danforth
37th	2000–2004		Dennis Mills	Liberal
38th	2004–2006		Jack Layton	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011
	2011-present	Vacant - To Be Determined

Election results

Forthcoming by-election

Main article: By-elections to the 41st Canadian Parliament

By-election on date to be determined due to the death of Jack Layton on August 22, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Craig Scott
	Liberal
	Conservative
	Green	TBA Feb. 5
	Libertarian	John Christopher Recker
	Canadian Action	Christopher Porter
Total valid votes/Expense limit				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Turnout

2011 general election

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Jack Layton	29,235	60.80	+16.02	$71,037.96
	Liberal	Andrew Lang	8,472	17.62	-11.76
	Conservative	Katarina Von Koenig	6,885	14.32	+2.67	$4,113.58
	Green	Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu	3,107	6.46	-6.75
	Animal Alliance	Marie Crawford	387	0.80	+0.41
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,086	100.00		$84,621.69
Total rejected ballots			284	0.59	+0.17
Turnout			48,370	64.90	+3.99

2008 general election

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Jack Layton	20,323	44.78	-3.64	$79,281
	Liberal	Andrew Lang	13,336	29.38	-4.85	$65,423
	Green	Sharon Howarth	5,995	13.21	+6.10	$37,794
	Conservative	Christina Perreault	5,287	11.65	+1.75	$16,515
	Animal Alliance	Marie Crawford	175	0.39		$1,230
	Independent	John Richardson	130	0.29		$39
	Marxist–Leninist	Marcell Rodden	87	0.19	-0.15
	Canadian Action	Bahman Yazdanfar	54	0.12		$125
Total valid votes/Expense limit			45,387	100.00		$82,497
Total rejected ballots			191	0.42	-0.06
Turnout			45,578	60.91	-6.76

2006 general election

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Jack Layton	24,412	48.42	+2.08	$74,966
	Liberal	Deborah Coyne	17,256	34.23	-7.11	$74,304
	Conservative	Kren Clausen	4,992	9.90	+3.69	$32,139
	Green	Al Hart	3,583	7.11	+1.73	$6,771
	Marxist–Leninist	Marcell Rodden	172	0.34	+0.16	$0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,415	100.00
Total rejected ballots			242	0.48	-0.08
Turnout			50,657	67.67	+3.57

2004 general election

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Jack Layton	22,198	46.34	+18.69
	Liberal	Dennis Mills	19,803	41.34	-10.56
	Conservative	Loftus Cuddy	2,975	6.21	-9.51
	Green	Jim Harris	2,575	5.38	+3.42
	Marijuana	Scott Yee	265	0.55	-0.76
	Marxist–Leninist	Marcell Rodden	84	0.18	-0.03
Total valid votes			47,900	100.00
Total rejected ballots			269	0.56
Turnout			48,169	64.10

Change from 2000 for top three parties is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party votes.

Broadview—Greenwood, 1976–2000

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dennis Mills	20,330	51.90	+2.14
	New Democrat	Paula Turtle	10,830	27.65	-5.12
	Progressive Conservative	Rose A. Dyson	3,138	8.01	+0.38
	Canadian Alliance	Chris Butryn	3,021	7.71	+0.06
	Green	Robert Nevin	769	1.96	+0.96
	Marijuana	Sean Keir	513	1.31
	Canadian Action	William Angus Millar	202	0.52
	Natural Law	Linda Martin	154	0.39	-0.09
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	129	0.33
	Marxist–Leninist	Melanie Cishecki	82	0.21	+0.01
Total valid votes			39,168	100.00

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dennis Mills	21,108	49.76	-11.31
	New Democrat	Jack Layton	13,903	32.77	+18.82
	Reform	Brian Higgins	3,247	7.65	-3.64
	Progressive Conservative	Dianne Garrels	3,238	7.63	-1.71
	Green	Karen McCarthy	426	1.00
	Independent	Kevin Mark Clarke	211	0.50
	Natural Law	Bob Hyman	205	0.48	-0.53
	Marxist–Leninist	Gurdev Singh	85	0.20	-0.04
Total valid votes			42,423	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dennis Mills	23,558	61.07	+22.18
	New Democrat	Lynn McDonald	5,381	13.95	-22.01
	Reform	Frank Meyers	4,356	11.29
	Progressive Conservative	John Papadakis	3,601	9.34	-13.08
	National	Barbara A. Sim	976	2.53
	Natural Law	Bob Hyman	389	1.01
	Not affiliated	Elizabeth Rowley	148	0.38
	Marxist–Leninist	Manuel Gitterman	92	0.24
	Abolitionist	Brian Blonski	74	0.19
Total valid votes			38,575	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dennis Mills	15,808	38.89	+20.55
	New Democrat	Lynn McDonald	14,616	35.96	-9.63
	Progressive Conservative	Wayne Allan Shillinglaw	9,112	22.42	-12.25
	Libertarian	Byron J. Garby	431	1.06
	Green	Elizabeth Rhodes	296	0.73	+0.01
	Rhino	Hank Wright Snell	243	0.60	-0.08
	Commonwealth	David S. Moyer	137	0.34
Total valid votes			40,643	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Lynn McDonald	15,066	45.59	+6.48
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Worthington	11,455	34.67	-15.26
	Liberal	Ken Paige	6,060	18.34	+8.61
	Green	Rolf Tegtmeyer	239	0.72
	Rhino	Nora Rodden	224	0.68	+0.36
Total valid votes			33,044	100.00

Note: the popular vote of Progressive Conservative candidate Peter Worthington is compared to the total popular vote in the 1982 by-election earned by the PC candidate Bill Fatsis and by Mr. Worthington running without affiliation.

By-election on October 12, 1982 On the resignation of Bob Rae, March 2, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Lynn McDonald	10,967	39.11	-1.26
	Not affiliated	Peter Worthington	9,004	32.11
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Fatsis	4,999	17.82	-6.10
	Liberal	Dave O'Connor	2,728	9.73	-23.31
	Independent	Donald Y. Hsu	159	0.57
	Rhino	Terry The Pirate Roche	90	0.32	-0.29
	Independent	Christopher R.C. Boddy	41	0.15%
	Independent	Sydney Thompson	38	0.14
	Not affiliated	John Turmel	19	0.07
Total valid votes			28,045	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	12,953	40.37	+0.65
	Liberal	Philip Deane Gigantes	10,601	33.04	+5.06
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Clarke	7,677	23.92	-6.16
	Libertarian	Walter Belej	352	1.10	-0.33
	Rhino	Vicki Butterfield	196	0.61
	Communist	Ed McDonald	164	0.51	+0.07
	Not affiliated	Don Hayward	53	0.17
	Marxist–Leninist	Dorothy J. O'Donnell	53	0.17	0.00
	Independent	Milorad Novich	40	0.12	-0.07
Total valid votes			32,089	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	13,187	39.72
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Clarke	9,987	30.08
	Liberal	Philipp Varelis	9,290	27.98
	Libertarian	Walter Belej	474	1.43
	Communist	John Bizzell	145	0.44
	Independent	Milorad Novich	64	0.19
	Marxist–Leninist	Dorothy J. O'Donnell	57	0.17
Total valid votes			33,204	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Sources

• Broadview—Greenwood federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Toronto—Danforth federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada