Scarborough—Rouge River (provincial electoral district)

For the former federal electoral district, see Scarborough—Rouge River.

Scarborough—Rouge River was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1999 and 2018.

Scarborough—Rouge River

Ontario electoral district
Scarborough—Rouge River in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1999
District abolished	2018
First contested	1999
Last contested	2016
Demographics
Population (2011)	135,102
Electors (2011)	85,505
Area (km²)	51.17
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

Map of Scarborough-Rouge River

The riding covers the northeast part of the Scarborough part of Toronto. It stretches from Highway 401 in the south to Steeles Avenue in the north. In the east it ends at the border with Pickering and to just west of Midland in the west.

In 2018, the district was dissolved into Scarborough—Rouge Park and Scarborough North.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Canadian census^[1][2]

• Ethnic groups: 32.8% South Asian, 30.8% Chinese, 10.7% Black, 8.7% White, 8.2% Filipino, 1.6% Southeast Asian
• Languages: 40.0% English, 27.1% Chinese, 13.2% Tamil, 4.2% Tagalog, 3.0% Urdu, 2.4% Gujarati, 1.4% Punjabi
• Religion: 39.2% Christian (19.1% Catholic, 2.7% Pentecostal, 2.4% Anglican, 1.8% Baptist, 1.1% Christian Orthodox, 12.1% Other Christian), 20.7% Hindu, 8.9% Muslim, 4.7% Buddhist, 1.2% Sikh, 25.0% No religion.
• Average household income: $74,241
• Median household income: $61,786
• Average individual income: $28,328
• Median individual income: $21,187

In 2001, 13.6% of the population was Hindu, the highest in Canada.^[3]

Geography

Scarborough—Rouge River consisted of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north and east by the city limits, on the west by Midland Avenue, and on the south by a line drawn from the east city limit west along Finch Avenue East, south along Meadowvale Road, west along Sheppard Avenue East, south along Morningside Avenue, west along Highway 401, north along Brimley Road, and west along Finch Avenue East to Midland Avenue.

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

The riding contained the neighbourhoods of Agincourt (part), Armadale, Malvern, Milliken (part) and Morningside Heights.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Scarborough—Rouge River
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Scarborough North
37th	1999–2003		Alvin Curling	Liberal
38th	2003–2005
	2005–2007		Bas Balkissoon
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2016
	2016–2018		Raymond Cho	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Scarborough—Rouge Park and Scarborough North
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[4]

Election results

Ontario provincial by-election, September 1, 2016 Resignation of Bas Balkissoon
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond Cho	9,693	38.58	+10.92
	Liberal	Piragal Thiru	7,264	28.91	-9.79
	New Democratic	Neethan Shan	6,883	27.40	-3.91
	Independent	Queenie Yu	582	2.32
	Green	Priyan De Silva	217	0.86	-0.51
	Libertarian	Allen Small	146	0.58
	None of the Above	Above Znoneofthe	135	0.54	-0.42
	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	76	0.30
	People's Political Party	Dwight McLean	56	0.22
	Pauper	John Turmel	37	0.15
	Trillium	Ania Krosinska	36	0.14
Total valid votes			25,125	100.00
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+10.36

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bas Balkissoon	16,095	38.71	-3.17
	New Democratic	Neethan Shan	13,019	31.31	-4.66
	Progressive Conservative	Raymond Cho	11,500	27.66	+8.87
	Green	George B. Singh	571	1.37	+0.12
	None of the Above	Amir Khan	398	0.96
Total valid votes			41,583	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			479	1.14
Turnout			42,062	47.48
Eligible voters			88,592
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.75
Source: Elections Ontario[5]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bas Balkissoon	15,237	41.87	-23.18
	New Democratic	Neethan Shan	13,088	35.97	+22.29
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Kim	6,837	18.79	+4.32
	Libertarian	Felix Liao	457	1.26	-0.16
	Green	George Singh	455	1.25	-2.47
	Family Coalition	Raphael Rosch	166	0.46	-1.20
	Freedom	Daniel Walker	150	0.41
Total valid votes			36,390	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			215	0.59
Turnout			36,605	42.89
Eligible voters			85,338
	Liberal hold		Swing		-22.73
Source: Elections Ontario[6]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bas Balkissoon	22,307	65.06	+0.49
	Progressive Conservative	Horace Gooden	4,960	14.47	-9.78
	New Democratic	Sheila White	4,691	13.68	+7.57
	Green	Serge Abbat	1,276	3.72
	Family Coalition	Joseph Carvalho	569	1.66
	Libertarian	Alan Mercer	486	1.42
Total valid votes			34,289	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.14
Source: Elections Ontario[7]

^ Change is from 2003 redistributed results.

2003 general election redistributed results[8]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	24,470	64.57
	Progressive Conservative	7,688	24.25
	New Democratic	1,936	6.11
	Others	1,609	5.08

Ontario provincial by-election, November 24, 2005
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bas Balkissoon	9,380	57.71	-6.14
	Progressive Conservative	Cynthia Lai	4,030	24.79	-0.42
	New Democratic	Sheila White	2,458	15.12	+9.14
	Green	Steven Toman	137	0.84	-2.69
	Libertarian	Alan Mercer	100	0.62
	Family Coalition	Rina Morra	93	0.57	-0.86
	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	57	0.35
Total valid votes			16,255	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.86
Source: Elections Ontario[9]

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alvin Curling	23,976	63.85	+6.6
	Progressive Conservative	Kevin Moore	9,468	25.21	-9.23
	New Democratic	Jean-Paul Yovanoff	2,246	5.98	-0.12
	Green	Karen Macdonald	1,326	3.53
	Family Coalition	Mitchell Persaud	536	1.43	+0.03
Total valid votes			37,552	100.0

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Alvin Curling	20,052	57.25
	Progressive Conservative	Mubashar Dar	12,061	34.44
	New Democratic	Paulette Senior	2,138	6.10
	Family Coalition	Betty Peters	489	1.40
	Natural Law	Lou Dube	284	0.81
Total valid votes			32,024	100.0

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	18,271	55.2
	Mixed member proportional	14,856	44.8
	Total valid votes	33,127	100.0