Toronto—St. Paul's (provincial electoral district)

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Toronto—St. Paul's

Ontario electoral district
Toronto-St. Paul's in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Jill Andrew New Democratic
District created	1996
First contested	1999
Last contested	2018
Demographics
Population (2011)	116,463
Electors (2007)	78,575
Area (km²)	15.2
Pop. density (per km²)	7,662
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Map of Toronto-St. Paul's

Toronto—St. Paul's is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Before the 2018 election, it was known simply as St. Paul's.

The small but densely populated riding covers the area to the north of Downtown Toronto. The riding was represented by Liberal Eric Hoskins before his abrupt resignation on February 26, 2018.

The riding was created for the 1999 election, to match the borders of the federal riding of the same name. It was carved out of the former districts of St. Andrew—St. Patrick, Eglinton, Oakwood, Dovercourt and St. George—St. David.

The riding consists of part of the Fairbank, Humewood-Cedarvale, Hillcrest-Bracondale, Wychwood Park, part of Davenport, Casa Loma, Forest Hill, Tarragon Village, Rathnelly, South Hill, Summerhill, Rosehill, Chaplin Estates, Deer Park and Davisville and part of North Toronto neighbourhoods.

Political geography

In the 2007 provincial election, the Liberals dominated most of the riding, performing the best in Fairbank in the northwest corner of the riding and in Davisville, in the east end of the riding. The Tories won most of their polls in the Forest Hill neighbourhood, and in Cedarvale. The NDP won a few polls, mostly in the south, where the riding borders the NDP riding of Trinity—Spadina. [1]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
St. Paul's Riding created from St. Andrew—St. Patrick, St. George—St. David, Eglinton, Oakwood and Dovercourt
37th	1999–2003		Michael Bryant	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2009
	2009–2011		Eric Hoskins
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
Toronto—St. Paul's
42nd	2018–Present		Jill Andrew	New Democratic
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly

Election results

Ontario general election, 2018
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Jill Andrew	18,843	35.96	+25.75
	Liberal	Jess Spindler	17,495	33.39	-26.26
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Kirsch	13,780	26.30	+2.41
	Green	Teresa Pun	1,690	3.23	-1.85
	Libertarian	Jekiah U. Dunavant	448	0.85	-0.03
	Ontario Moderate Party	Marina Doshchitsina	143	0.27	+0.27
Eligible voters			83,206
Turnout			52,399	62.98	+3.12
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+26.00
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Eric Hoskins	30,036	59.65	+1.26
	Progressive Conservative	Justine Deluce	12,032	23.89	+2.97
	New Democratic	Luke Savage	5,142	10.21	-6.40
	Green	Josh Rachlis	2,556	5.08	+2.33
	Libertarian	John Kittredge	413	0.82	+0.04
	Freedom	Mike Rita	176	0.35	+0.15
Turnout			50,355	59.86
Source: Elections Ontario

Ontario general election, 2011: St. Paul's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Eric Hoskins	25,052	58.41
	Progressive Conservative	Christine McGirr	8,971	20.92
	New Democratic	David Hynes	7,121	16.60
	Green	Judith Van Veldhuysen	1,172	2.73
	Libertarian	John Kittredge	332	0.77
	Freedom	Mike Rita	88	0.21
	Socialist	Keith Pinto	83	0.19
	Northern Ontario Heritage	David Vallance	73	0.17

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Michael Bryant	21,280	47.43	-7.33
	Progressive Conservative	Lillyann Goldstein	11,910	26.54	+1.89
	New Democratic	Julian Heller	7,061	15.74	+0.91
	Green	Steven D'Sa	3,744	8.34	+3.35
	Independent	Charles de Kerckhove	328	0.73
	Libertarian	John Kittredge	240	0.53
	Family Coalition	Blaise Thompson	190	0.42
	Freedom	Carol Leborg	115	0.26	-0.52
Total valid votes			44,868	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Michael Bryant	24,887	54.76	+4.19
	Progressive Conservative	Charis Kelso	11,203	24.65	-15.74
	New Democratic	Julian Heller	6,740	14.83	+7.70
	Green	Peter Elgie	2,266	4.99	+4.30
	Freedom	Carol Leborg	354	0.78
Total valid votes			45,450	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Michael Bryant	23,755	50.57
	Progressive Conservative	Isabel Bassett	18,973	40.39
	New Democratic	Larry Solway	3,350	7.13
	Green	Don Roebuck	326	0.69
	Independent	Philip Fernandez	194	0.41
	Natural Law	Linda Martin	188	0.40
	Independent	Antonio Maristanes	184	0.39
Total valid votes			46,970	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	24,009	55.0
	Mixed member proportional	19,630	45.0
	Total valid votes	43,639	100.0

Sources

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results
• Map of riding for 2018 election