Toronto West (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Toronto West (provincial electoral district).

Toronto West was a federal electoral district in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1925. This riding was created in 1903 when West Toronto riding was renamed, and reduced from electing two members of the House of Commons to one.

Toronto West

Ontario electoral district
A map of the Toronto ridings of 1904
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1903
District abolished	1924
First contested	1904
Last contested	1921

Toronto West initially consisted of the portion of the city of Toronto east of Palmerston Avenue and north of Queen Street West. In 1914, the riding was redefined to consist of the portion of the City of Toronto bounded by Queen Street West, Spadina Avenue, Bloor Street West and Dovercourt Road.

The electoral district was abolished in 1924 when it was redistributed between Toronto South and Toronto West Centre ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from West Toronto
10th	1904–1908		Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		Horatio Clarence Hocken	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925			Conservative
Riding dissolved into Toronto West Centre and Toronto South

Election history

1904 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Boyd Osler	4,464
	Liberal	Alfred Taylour Hunter	2,573

1908 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Boyd Osler	4,772
	Independent	James Hunter Duthie	2,419

1911 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Boyd Osler	11,442
	Liberal	Gordon Waldron	3,437

1917 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	Horatio Clarence Hocken	12,648
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Charles Wesley Kerr	3,030
	Labour	John William Bruce	2,053

1921 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Horatio Clarence Hocken	5,920
	Liberal	Alfred Taylour Hunter	3,913
	Labour	Harriet Dunlop Prenter	1,741

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada