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York South - Weston

2008 Results

York South-Weston
Party Candidate Votes Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST 196/196 polls
LIB Alan Tonks 16,004 Elected
NDP Mike Sullivan 9,634
CON Aydin Cocelli 7,015
GRN Andre Papadimitriou 1,759

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This north Toronto riding runs from Highway 401 in the north to the CP Rail line in the south, between the Humber River in the west and the CN Rail line, Rogers Road, Old Weston Road, Lavender Road and the CN line in the east.

The immigrant population is 54 per cent in this multicultural riding. It includes people of Italian, Portuguese, Jamaican, Indian and Chinese backgrounds.

The main employers are manufacturing and the service sector. According to the 2006 census, the average family income is $62,218 – the second-lowest in the province – and unemployment is 8.6 per cent.

The riding was created in 1976 from 44 per cent of York South, 36 per cent of High Park-Humber Valley and eight per cent of Etobicoke ridings. The 1996 redistribution kept 92 per cent of the riding and added part of Eglinton-Lawrence. In 2004, a small area of Davenport was added in the south.

Population: 114,458 (2006 census; a decrease of 0.1% since 2001)

Political History

Liberal Alan Tonks won this riding in 2006 when he defeated New Democrat Paul Ferreira for the second time. Tonks received 57 per cent of the vote and beat Ferreira by 14,346 votes.

In 2000, Tonks defeated Liberal John Nunziata to win York South-Weston.

John Nunziata won this riding for the Liberals in 1984, 1988 and 1993. In November 1992, he was stripped of his critic status after speaking out against leader Jean Chrètien's appointment of Art Eggleton as a candidate. Nunziata was ejected from caucus in April 1996 after voting against the government's budget because it didn't scrap the GST as promised. He won as an Independent in 1997, defeating Liberal Judy Sgro. She went on to win a 1999 byelection in York West, then again in 2000 and 2004.

The former riding of York South voted Conservative from 1904 to 1945, except for a CCF win in a 1942 byelection. It voted CCF in 1949 and 1953 and PC in 1957 and 1958. New Democrat David Lewis won in York South in 1962, was defeated in 1963 and won again in 1965, 1968 and 1972. Lewis became leader of the NDP in 1971. In 1974, Liberal Ursula Appoloni defeated Lewis by 1,863 votes. She went on to win in the new riding of York South-Weston in 1979 and 1980.

  • 1979-1993 - LIB
  • 1997 - Independent
  • 2000, 2004, 2006 - LIB