York North (Ontario provincial electoral district)

Not to be confused with York North (New Brunswick provincial electoral district).

York North was a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 2007. The provincial riding was known as York—Mackenzie from 1995 to 1999.

York North

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1867
District abolished	2007
First contested	1867
Last contested	2003
Demographics
Census division(s)	York Region
Census subdivision(s)	Aurora (until 1999), Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, King, Newmarket, Vaughan (until 1987), Whitchurch-Stouffville (until 1987)

In 2007, the Ontario provincial electoral district was eliminated when it was matched to the redistributed ridings of the federal districts. Julia Munro, who held the York North seat, was re-elected in the new riding of York—Simcoe.

Members of Provincial Parliament

York North
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1871		John McMurrich	Liberal
2nd	1871–1875		Alfred Boultbee	Conservative
3rd	1875–1879		Joseph Henry Widdifield[nb 1]	Liberal
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886
6th	1886–1888
	1888–1890		Elihu James Davis
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898
9th	1898–1899
10th	1899–1905
11th	1905–1908		Thomas Herbert Lennox	Conservative
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926		William Keith
17th	1926–1929		Peter William Pearson	Liberal
18th	1929–1934		Clifford Case	Conservative
19th	1934–1937		Morgan Baker	Liberal
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		George Herbert Mitchell	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		A. A. MacKenzie	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971		William Hodgson
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987		Greg Sorbara	Liberal
34th	1987–1990		Charles Beer
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999		Frank Klees	Progressive Conservative
37th	1999–2003		Julia Munro
38th	2003–2007
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]
Merged into York—Simcoe after 2007

Election results

v t e 1867 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John McMurrich	1,369	54.20
	Conservative	Alfred Boultbee	1,157	45.80
Total valid votes			2,526	73.90
Eligible voters			3,418
	Liberal pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario[2]

v t e 1871 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Boultbee	1,306	50.10	+4.29
	Liberal	John McMurrich	1,301	49.90	−4.29
Turnout			2,607	66.64	−7.26
Eligible voters			3,912
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+4.29
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

v t e 1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Henry Widdifield	1,835	57.69	+7.78
	Independent	E. Jackson	1,346	42.31
Total valid votes			3,181	65.36	−1.28
Eligible voters			4,867
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+7.78
Source: Elections Ontario[4]

v t e 1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Henry Widdifield	2,200	56.54	−1.15
	Conservative	N. Murphy	1,691	43.46
Total valid votes			3,891	68.77	+3.41
Eligible voters			5,658
	Liberal hold		Swing		−1.15
Source: Elections Ontario[5]

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Julia Munro	29613	61.81
	Liberal	John Volpe	15755	32.89
	New Democratic	Steve Saysell	2236	4.67
	Natural Law	Kwok-Lin Mary Wan	305	0.64

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Julia Munro	24517	47.19	-14.62
	Liberal	John Taylor	21054	40.53	7.64
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	4029	7.76	3.09
	Green	Bob Burrows	1854	3.57
	Family Coalition	Simone Williams	497	0.96