Beaches—East York (provincial electoral district)

For the federal riding, see Beaches—East York. For the defunct provincial riding, see Beaches—Woodbine (provincial electoral district).

Beaches—East York is a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was created in 1996 from parts of Beaches—Woodbine (95%), Don Mills (40%), and York East (20%).^[1]

Beaches—East York

Ontario electoral district
Location in Toronto
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Mary-Margaret McMahon Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1999
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2016)	109,465
Electors (2018)	82,386
Area (km²)	19
Pop. density (per km²)	5,761.3
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

When the riding was created, it included the former borough of East York east of Coxwell Avenue and that part of Old Toronto east of a line following Coxwell to Gerrard Street to Greenwood Avenue to Queen Street to Leslie Street. In 2007, the boundaries were altered so that everything west of Coxwell Avenue was transferred to Toronto—Danforth.

Boundaries

In 1996, much of the province's old boundaries were redrawn due to the Fewer Politicians Act which reduced the number of seats in the legislature from 130 to 103 to match the number of federal seats.^[2]

The boundary of the new riding of Beaches-East York, beginning at the southwest corner starts where the southern extension of Leslie Street intersects with Lake Ontario, proceeds north along Leslie Street, then east along Queen Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, east along Gerrard Street East, and north along Coxwell Avenue until it turns into Coxwell Blvd. at O'Connor Drive. It continues a short distance along this street where the boundary extends until it meets Taylor-Massey Creek. It follows the creek west (downstream) until it meets the Don River East Branch. The boundary follows the river northeast (upstream) until it meets the point where a westerly extension of Sunrise Avenue intersects with the river course. The boundary continues east along Sunrise Avenue until it meets Victoria Park Avenue. The boundary turns south and follows the street south until it ends at Lake Ontario. The boundary follows the lake coast back west until it meets the beginning point.^[3]

In 2003, the western boundary was altered so that the portion west of Coxwell Avenue was transferred to the neighbouring riding of Toronto—Danforth.^[4]

Members of Provincial Parliament

Beaches—East York
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Beaches—Woodbine, Don Mills and York East
37th	1999–2001		Frances Lankin	New Democratic
	2001–2003		Michael Prue
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018		Arthur Potts	Liberal
42nd	2018–2022		Rima Berns-McGown	New Democratic
43rd	2022–2025		Mary-Margaret McMahon	Liberal
44th	2025–present
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[5]

Election results

Winning party in each polling division of Beaches—East York at the 2025 Ontario general election

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mary-Margaret McMahon	21,545	51.17	+15.75	$63,307
	New Democratic	Kate Dupuis	9,660	22.94	–10.27
	Progressive Conservative	Anna Michaelidis	9,001	21.38	+2.84
	Green	Jack Pennings	1,298	3.08	–7.14
	New Blue	Thomas Gregory	246	0.58	–0.50	$0
	Independent	Dragan Cimesa	122	0.29	N/A
	Ontario Party	Paul Stark	125	0.30	–0.46	$0
	Canadians' Choice	Bahman Yazdanfar	107	0.25	+0.06	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,104	99.58	–0.07	$136,230
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			178	0.42	+0.07
Turnout			42,282	50.26	+0.68
Eligible voters			84,123
	Liberal hold		Swing		+13.01
Source: Elections Ontario[6]

Winning party in each polling division of Beaches—East York at the 2022 Ontario general election

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mary-Margaret McMahon	14,398	35.42	+8.41	$91,050
	New Democratic	Kate Dupuis	13,500	33.21	−15.00	$90,885
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Kennedy	7,536	18.54	+0.10	$21,977
	Green	Abhijeet Manay	4,154	10.22	+5.96	$43,979
	New Blue	Stephen Roney	441	1.08		$0
	Ontario Party	John Ferguson	310	0.76		$0
	Communist	Drew Garvie	120	0.30		$0
	None of the Above	Joe Ring	111	0.27	+0.06	$0
	Canadians' Choice	Bahman Yazdanfar	78	0.19	+0.04	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,648	99.65	+0.58	$116,071
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			143	0.35	−0.58
Turnout			40,791	49.58	+11.58
Eligible voters			82,912
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+11.71
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Rima Berns-McGown	24,064	48.21	+9.24
	Liberal	Arthur Potts	13,480	27.01	–13.08
	Progressive Conservative	Sarah Mallo	9,202	18.44	+4.51
	Green	Debra Scott	2,128	4.26	–1.16
	Libertarian	Thomas Armstrong	458	0.92	–0.30
	Independent	Andrew Balodis	161	0.32
	Special Needs	Regina Mundrugo	117	0.23
	None of the Above	Joe Ring	104	0.21
	Canadians' Choice	Bahman Yazdanfar	74	0.15
	Cultural Action	Eric Brazau	68	0.14
	People's Political Party	Tony Chipman	58	0.12
Total valid votes			49,914	99.07
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			470	0.93	-0.20
Turnout			50,384	61.16	+5.02
Eligible voters			82,386
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+11.16
Source: Elections Ontario[7]

Map of Beaches-East York

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Potts	17,218	40.09	+4.01
	New Democratic	Michael Prue	16,737	38.97	-7.85
	Progressive Conservative	Nicolas Johnson	5,982	13.93	±0
	Green	Debra Scott	2,329	5.42	+2.74
	Libertarian	Alex Lindsay	524	1.22	–
	Freedom	Naomi Poley-Fisher	158	0.37	-0.01
Total valid votes			42,948	98.86
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			493	1.14
Turnout			43,442	56.14	+4.50
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+5.93
Source: Elections Ontario[8]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Michael Prue	17,925	46.82	+2.78
	Liberal	Helen Burstyn	13,813	36.08	+10.48
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Menary	5,333	13.93	-1.52
	Green	Shawn Ali	1,025	2.68	-9.31
	Freedom	Naomi Poley-Fisher	144	0.38	+0.04
	Independent	Joe Ross	45	0.12
Total valid votes			38,285	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			162	0.42
Turnout			38,447	51.64
Eligible voters			74,450
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-3.85
Source: Elections Ontario[9]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Michael Prue	17,572	44.04	-6.86
	Liberal	Tom Teahen	10,215	25.60	+1.47
	Progressive Conservative	Don Duvall	6,166	15.45	-4.1
	Green	Caroline Law	4,785	11.99	+7.21
	Libertarian	Doug Patfield	515	1.29
	Family Coalition	Joel Kidd	201	0.50
	Freedom	James Whitaker	135	0.34
Total valid votes			39,900	100.0
Elections Ontario:[10]

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Michael Prue	21,239	50.90	+1.07
	Liberal	Monica Purdy	10,070	24.13	-12.43
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Kennedy	8,157	19.55	+9.53
	Green	Tom Mason	1,995	4.78	+2.31
Total valid votes			41,728	100.0
Elections Ontario:[11]

Ontario provincial by-election, September 20, 2001
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Michael Prue	14,024	49.83	+4.26
	Liberal	Robert Hunter	10,289	36.56	+14.98
	Progressive Conservative	Mac Penney	2,821	10.02	-19.53
	Green	Peter Elgie	694	2.47	+1.47
	Family Coalition	Ray Scott	206	0.73	+0.12
	Independent	Kevin Clarke	94	0.35
	Independent	Vince Corriere	59	0.21
	Independent	Don King	51	0.18
Total valid votes			28,144	100.0
Elections Ontario:[12]

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Frances Lankin	19,703	45.57	+3.5
	Progressive Conservative	Judy Burns	12,776	29.55	-1.2
	Liberal	Bill Buckingham	9,332	21.58	-2.3
	Green	Michael Schulman	431	1.00
	Family Coalition	Dan Largy	264	0.61
	Natural Law	Donalda Fredeen	230	0.53	-0.1
	Independent	Steve Rutchinski	164	0.38
Total valid votes			43,235	100.0
Elections Ontario:[13]

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	19,100	49.9%
	Mixed member proportional	19,180	50.1%
	Total valid votes	38,280	100.0

• This riding was one of five ridings where a majority of voters supported MMP.