Humber (provincial electoral district)

Humber was a provincial electoral district (riding) in Ontario, Canada. It was created prior to the 1955 provincial election from parts of the York West and York South ridings. It was eliminated in 1996, when most of its territory was incorporated into the ridings of Etobicoke Centre and Etobicoke—Lakeshore. Humber was located in the municipalities of York, Toronto, and Etobicoke.

York—Humber (1955–1963)
Humber (1963–1987)
Etobicoke—Humber (1987–1999)

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1955
District abolished	1996
First contested	1955
Last contested	1995
Demographics
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

The riding went through two name changes and several boundary changes during its lifetime. From 1955 to 1963 it was known as York—Humber and existed mostly on the east side of the Humber River. From 1963 to 1987 it was known as Humber, and in 1987 it was changed to Etobicoke-Humber. From 1963 onwards it was mostly on the west side of the river.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Created from York West and York South ridings in 1955
York—Humber
25th	1955–1959		Bev Lewis	Progressive Conservative
26th	1959–1963
Humber
27th	1963–1967		Bev Lewis	Progressive Conservative
28th	1967–1971		George Ben	Liberal
29th	1971–1975		Nick Leluk	Progressive Conservative
30th	1975–1977		John MacBeth
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985		Morley Kells
33rd	1985–1987		Jim Henderson	Liberal
Etobicoke—Humber
34th	1987–1990		Jim Henderson	Liberal
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999		Doug Ford Sr.	Progressive Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]
Merged into Etobicoke Centre and Etobicoke—Lakeshore ridings after 1996

Election results

York—Humber

1955 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[2]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	W. Beverley Lewis	11,814	44.3
	Liberal	Peter Slaght	7,684	28.8
	CCF	F. Stroud	6,284	23.5
	Labour-Progressive	Art Jenkyn	913	3.4
		Total	26,695

1959 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[3]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	W. Beverley Lewis	11,785	44.0
	Liberal	John Van Esterik	8,518	31.8
	CCF	Alex Maxwell	6,499	24.2
		Total	26,802

Humber

1963 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[4]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	Bev Lewis	10,119	45.7
	Liberal	Dante DeMonte	6,877	31.0
	New Democrat	John Whitehouse	5,164	23.3
		Total	22,160

1967 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[5]	Vote %
	Liberal	George Ben	8,036	34.5
	New Democrat	K. Cummings	7,888	33.9
	Progressive Conservative	Bev Lewis	7,369	31.6
		Total	23,293

1971 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[6]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	Nick Leluk	11,699	42.5
	New Democrat	K. Cummings	8,206	29.8
	Liberal	George Ben	7,637	27.7
		Total	27,542

1975 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[7]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	John MacBeth	17,576	44.4
	Liberal	Alex Marchetti	14,408	36.4
	New Democrat	Bob Curran	7,639	19.3
		Total	39,623

1977 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[8]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	John MacBeth	19,457	50.1
	Liberal	John M. Dods	10,651	27.4
	New Democrat	Bob Curran	7,828	20.1
	Libertarian	Sheldon M. Gold	516	1.3
	Communist	Kris Hansen	397	1.0
		Total	38,849

1981 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[9]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	Morley Kells	21,115	60.5
	Liberal	Jim Mills	10,177	29.1
	New Democrat	Jacquie Chic	3,634	10.4
		Total	34,926

1985 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[10]	Vote %
	Liberal	Jim Henderson	18,044	45.9
	Progressive Conservative	Morley Kells	16,141	41.0
	New Democrat	Peter Sutherland	5,148	13.1
		Total	39,333

Etobicoke—Humber

1987 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[11]	Vote %
	Liberal	Jim Henderson	21,527	60.8
	Progressive Conservative	Avie Flaherty	8,125	22.9
	New Democrat	Peter Sutherland	4,563	12.9
	Family Coalition	George Hartwell	1,209	3.4
		Total	35,424

1990 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[12]	Vote %
	Liberal	Jim Henderson	13,965	38.7
	New Democrat	Russ Springate	10,361	28.7
	Progressive Conservative	Aileen Anderson	9,487	26.3
	Family Coalition	Tony Dodds	1,324	3.7
	Green	David Moore	605	1.7
	Libertarian	Alan D'Orsay	388	1.1
		Total	36,130

1995 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[13]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Ford	18,128	51.3
	Liberal	Jim Henderson	13,634	38.6
	New Democrat	Osman Ali	3,100	8.8
	Independent	Omar Mohamed	257	0.7
	Natural Law	Lawrence Staranchuk	196	0.6
	Independent	Mohamoud Sheik-nor	51	0.1
		Total	35,366