St. Andrew was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was established to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and then Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
It was located in downtown Toronto, and was made up of the area to the east of Bathurst Street and west of Yonge Street, including Spadina Avenue and Kensington Market. The population of St. Andrew was largely immigrant, working class and Jewish. For many years it was one of the few electoral districts in North America to elect a Communist. J.B. Salsberg of the Labor-Progressive Party represented the riding from the 1943 election until his defeat in the 1955 election.
The riding was created in 1926, and existed until the 1967, when redistribution resulted in St. Andrew being merged with a neighbouring riding to form St. Andrew—St. Patrick.
St. Andrew riding took its name from the former "St. Andrew's ward" of the City of Toronto.
Members of Provincial Parliament
Election results
1926 boundaries
1934 boundaries
Ontario general election, 1934
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[5] |
Vote % |
|
Liberal |
J.J. Glass |
5,841 |
42.4 |
|
Conservative |
Fred Singer |
4,441 |
32.3 |
|
Communist |
Meyer Klig |
1,959 |
14.2 |
|
Independent-Liberal |
Claude Pierce |
1,338 |
9.7 |
|
Independent-Conservative |
J.N. Day |
186 |
1.4 |
|
|
Total |
13,765 |
|
Ontario general election, 1955
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[11] |
Vote % |
|
Conservative |
Allan Grossman |
5,060 |
41.2 |
|
Labor–Progressive |
J. B. Salsberg |
4,380 |
35.7 |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth |
Boris Mather |
1,446 |
11.8 |
|
Liberal |
L.S. Lockhart |
1,231 |
10.0 |
|
Independent |
Elizabeth Langfield |
150 |
1.2 |
|
|
Total |
12,267 |
|
Ontario general election, 1963
|
Party |
Candidate |
Votes[13] |
Vote % |
|
Conservative |
Allan Grossman |
4,309 |
43.9 |
|
Liberal |
Donald Catalano |
3,476 |
35.4 |
|
New Democrat |
Ellen Adams |
1,638 |
16.7 |
|
Independent |
Sam Sherman |
194 |
2.0 |
|
Independent |
Dorothy Cureatz |
103 |
1.0 |
|
Social Credit |
Ross Taylor |
102 |
1.0 |
|
|
Total |
9,822 |
|
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
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- For Ephraim Frederick Singer's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For John Judah Glass's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For J.B. Salsberg's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- For Allan Grossman's Legislative Assembly information see Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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