Toronto Southwest


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. 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. 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.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Election results

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

Seat A

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
ConservativeJ.J. Foy3,63158.1
LiberalMaybee2,22835.7
IndependentColumbo3896.2
Total6,248

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
LiberalHubert Hartley Dewart2,70550.6
ConservativeJ.A. Norris2,06238.6
SocialistJ.M. Conner4458.3
Independent-LiberalGordon Waldron1312.5
Total5,343

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
LiberalHubert Hartley Dewart15,47163.8
ConservativeGeorge Horace Gooderham8,76036.2
Total24,231

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
ConservativeJames Arthur McCausland7,96758.0
LiberalHubert Hartley Dewart3,21123.4
LabourMalcolm L. Bruce2,56218.6
Total13,740

Seat B

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
LiberalJohn Carman Ramsden11,64546.9
ConservativeWilliam C. McBrien7,22829.1
LabourJohn McDonald5,96024.0
Total24,833

PartyCandidateVotesVote %
ConservativeFrederick George McBrien7,41552.8
Independent-LiberalJoseph Singer2,30616.4
LiberalJohn MacDonald2,20915.7
LiberalJohn Carman Ramsden2,11515.1
Total14,045-

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