York South (Ontario provincial electoral district)

This article is about the Ontario provincial riding. For the federal riding, see York South. For the New Brunswick provincial riding, see York South (New Brunswick provincial electoral district).

York South was a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1999.

York South

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1926
District abolished	1996
First contested	1926
Last contested	1995
Demographics
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

History

The provincial riding of York South first came into existence for the 1926 Ontario election. It was slightly smaller than the federal riding but covered much of the same area. For most of the period after World War II, it was a bastion of the Ontario CCF and its successor, the NDP, being the riding of three CCF/NDP leaders in the Ontario legislature, Ted Jolliffe, Donald C. MacDonald and Bob Rae.

When the government of Mike Harris changed Ontario's electoral law so that federal and provincial ridings matched, most of York South was merged into York South—Weston. Smaller portions of the old riding became parts of Parkdale—High Park and Davenport.

Members of Provincial Parliament

York South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from York North
17th	1926–1929		Leopold Macaulay	Conservative
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		Ted Jolliffe	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		Howard Julian Sale	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		Ted Jolliffe	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		William George Beech	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1959		Donald C. MacDonald[nb 1]	Co-operative Commonwealth
26th	1959–1961
	1961–1963			New Democratic
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1982
	1982–1985		Bob Rae[nb 2]
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1996
	1996–1999		Gerard Kennedy	Liberal
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]
Dissolved into York South—Weston, Parkdale—High Park and Davenport

Election results

1926 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[2]	Vote %
	Conservative	Leopold Macaulay	10,242	66.5
	Progressive	Dillon[nb 3]	5,162	33.5
		Total	15,404

1929 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[2]	Vote %
	Conservative	Leopold Macaulay	7,280	71.4
	Liberal	G.W.P. Hood	2,912	28.6
		Total	10,192

Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution

1934 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[3]	Vote %
	Conservative	Leopold Macaulay	10,162	39.8
	Liberal	D.W. Lang	9,142	35.8
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Luke Teskey	5,546	21.7
	Communist	E.G. Humphries	706	2.8
		Total	25,556

1937 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[4][nb 4]	Vote %
	Conservative	Leopold Macaulay	10,063	38.5
	Liberal	D.W. Lang	9,000	34.4
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Luke Teskey	6,793	26.0
	Independent	Hughes[nb 3]	237	0.9
	Independent	Debragh[nb 3]	36	0.1
		Total	26,129

1943 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[5]	Vote %
	Co-operative Commonwealth	E.B. Jolliffe	10,477	48.9
	Progressive Conservative	G.M. Dix	8,260	38.6
	Liberal	Edward Evans	2,680	12.5
		Total	21,417

1945 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[6]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	H.G. Sale	14,002	41.3
	Co-operative Commonwealth	E.B. Jolliffe	12,769	37.7
	Liberal	F.J. MacRae	5,982	17.6
	Labor–Progressive	Oscar Brookes	949	2.8
	Social Credit	John D. Scott	211	0.6
		Total	33,913

1948 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[7]	Vote %
	Co-operative Commonwealth	E.B. Jolliffe	19,237	49.6
	Progressive Conservative	W.S. Gibson	14,728	37.9
	Liberal	Ragnar Johnson	4,848	12.5
		Total	38,813

1951 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[8]	Vote %
	Progressive Conservative	William Beech	13,756	39.7
	Co-operative Commonwealth	E.B. Jolliffe	13,140	37.9
	Liberal	Robert Colucci	6,855	19.8
	Labor–Progressive	Norman Penner	877	2.5
		Total	34,628

1955 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[9]	Vote %
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacDonald	14,156	44.4
	Progressive Conservative	William Beech	12,505	39.2
	Liberal	Bert Robinson	4,172	13.1
	Labor–Progressive	David Kashton	1,028	3.2
		Total	31,861

1959 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[10]	Vote %
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacDonald	14,446	46.9
	Progressive Conservative	Alice Bickerton	9,133	29.7
	Liberal	Fred McDermott	5,508	17.9
	Independent-Conservative	C.J. Garfunkel	1,228	4.0
	Labor–Progressive	Sam Walsh	454	1.5
		Total	30,769

1963 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[11]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	10,529	48.0
	Progressive Conservative	William Thomson	6,792	30.9
	Liberal	Albert Robinson	4,633	21.1
		Total	21,954

1967 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[12]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	13,069	64.9
	Progressive Conservative	John Holley	6,792	33.7
	Liberal	Albert Robinson	273	1.4
		Total	19,836

1971 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[13]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	12,311	48.1
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Saunders	9,524	37.2
	Liberal	Ed Direnfield	3,786	14.8
		Total	25,621

1975 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[14]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	13,365	48.4
	Progressive Conservative	James Trimbee	7,083	25.7
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	6,494	23.6
	Communist	Mike Phillips	612	2.2
		Total	27,554

1977 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[15]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	14,136	50.5
	Progressive Conservative	Austin Clarke	7,658	27.4
	Liberal	Michael E. Kolle	5,306	19.
	Communist	Mike Phillips	526	1.9
	Libertarian	Ken Korentayer	339	1.2
		Total	27,965

1981 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[16]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Donald MacDonald	9,725	37.3
	Liberal	Les Green	8,113	31.1
	Progressive Conservative	Barbara Jafelice	7,728	29.7
	Communist	Mike Phillips	487	1.9
		Total	26,053

By-election November 4, 1982

	Party	Candidate	Votes[17]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	11,286	45.6
	Liberal	John Nunziata	8,732	35.3
	Progressive Conservative	Barbara Jafelice	4,410	17.8
	Libertarian	Myron Petriw	245	1.0
	Christian Credit Party	John Turmel	67	0.3
		Total	24,470

1985 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[18]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	16,465	54.3
	Liberal	Horace Hale	6,687	22.0
	Progressive Conservative	Toomas Ounapua	5,376	17.7
	Independent	Paul Schultze	1,071	3.5
	Independent	Lucile Beikott	410	1.4
	Libertarian	Dusan Kubas	341	1.1
		Total	30,350

1987 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[19]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	13,147	44.1
	Liberal	Alan Tonks	12,907	43.3
	Progressive Conservative	Fred De Francesco	3,300	11.3
	Libertarian	Dusan Kubas	425	1.4
		Total	29,779

1990 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[20]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	15,802	65.6
	Liberal	Ozzie Grant	4,534	18.8
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Feldstein	2,541	10.5
	Libertarian	Alex MacDonald	759	3.2
	Green	Phil Sarazen	452	1.9
		Total	22,677

1995 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes[21]	Vote %
	New Democrat	Bob Rae	10,442	41.3
	Progressive Conservative	Larry Edwards	7,726	30.6
	Liberal	Hagood Hardy	6,025	23.8
	Family Coalition	Don Pennell	305	1.2
	Green	David James Cooper	219	0.9
	Independent	Kevin Clarke	170	0.7
	Libertarian	Roma Kelembet	153	0.6
	Natural Law	Bob Hyman	124	0.5
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	105	0.4
		Total	25,269

By-election May 23, 1996

	Party	Candidate	Votes[22]	Vote %
	Liberal	Gerrard Kennedy	7,774	39.8
	New Democrat	David Miller	6,656	34.1
	Progressive Conservative	Rob Davis	5,095	26.1
		Total	19,525