Humber River—Black Creek (provincial electoral district)

For the federal and municipal electoral divisions, see Humber River—Black Creek and Ward 7 Humber River—Black Creek.

Humber River—Black Creek is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Prior to the 2018 election, the riding was known as York West.

Humber River—Black Creek

Ontario electoral district
Humber River-Black Creek in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Tom Rakocevic New Democratic
District created	1999
First contested	1999
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Population (2016)	108,035
Electors (2018)	66,289
Area (km²)	31
Pop. density (per km²)	3,485
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

Its population was 110,384 in 2001. The district includes the northwest corner of the former city of North York, including the extreme western part of the Downsview neighbourhood.

It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit, and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Keele Street, west along Grandravine Drive, southeast along Black Creek, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Jane Street, west along Highway 401, and northwest along the Humber River to the northern city limit.

The riding is represented by Tom Rakocevic in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

History

The riding was founded at the time of Confederation in 1867. It consisted of the area of York Township west of the Humber River, an area now known as Etobicoke. This riding lasted unchanged until 1963 when the area was split into four ridings, York West, Etobicoke, Lakeshore and Humber. The riding was reduced to an area south of Richview Road (later Eglinton Avenue West) and north of Bloor Street West. The boundaries changed again in 1975, with Kipling Avenue becoming its eastern boundary and Highway 401 the northern boundary, while the eastern portion of the riding became part of the new Etobicoke-Humber riding. The riding was dissolved in 1987, with parts of it joining the ridings of Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber.

The riding was reestablished in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings. It consists of parts of the old North York ridings of Yorkview and Downsview.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
York West
1st	1867–1871		Thomas Grahame	Conservative
2nd	1871–1875		Peter Patterson	Liberal
3rd	1875–1879
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886		John Gray	Conservative
6th	1886–1890		John Gilmour	Liberal
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898		Joseph St. John	Conservative
9th	1898–1902		William Hill	Liberal
10th	1902–1905		Joseph St. John †	Conservative
11th	1905–1907
	1907–1908		Forbes Godfrey †
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1932
	1932–1934		Henry Isaac Price
19th	1934–1937		William Gardhouse	Liberal
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		John Allan	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		Elmer Brandon †	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1956
	1956–1959		Leslie Rowntree
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		John MacBeth
30th	1975–1977		Nick Leluk
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
Riding dissolved into Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber
York West re-created from Yorkview and Downsview
37th	1999–2003		Mario Sergio	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
Humber River—Black Creek
42nd	2018–2022		Tom Rakocevic	New Democratic
43rd	2022–present
† denotes that the member died in office.
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]

Election results

Winning party in each polling division of Humber River—Black Creek at the 2025 Ontario general election

2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	8,788	35.33	+0.84
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Nguyen	8,595	34.55	+4.80
	Liberal	Liban Hassan	6,811	27.38	–3.28
	Green	Alexander Qanbery	402	1.62	–0.24
	Communist	Jeanne McGuire	280	1.1	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			24,876	98.70	+0.14
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			328	1.30	–0.14
Turnout			25,204	35.21	+2.06
Eligible voters			71,584
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–1.98
Source: Elections Ontario[2]

Winning party in each polling division of Humber River—Black Creek at the 2022 Ontario general election

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	7,959	34.49	−2.93	$92,545
	Liberal	Ida Li Preti	7,076	30.66	+2.72	$64,439
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Nguyen	6,865	29.75	−0.54	$63,667
	Green	Keith Berry	430	1.86	+0.30	$1,068
	Ontario Party	Lee Miguel Gonzalez	357	1.55		$4,264
	New Blue	Iulian Caunei	281	1.22		$1,023
	Independent	Knia Singh	110	0.48		$1,296
Total valid votes/expense limit			23,078	98.56	−0.17	$98,948
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			337	1.44	+0.17
Turnout			23,415	33.15	−14.11
Eligible voters			70,673
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−2.83
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	11,573	37.41	-1.80
	Progressive Conservative	Cyma Musarat	9,367	30.29	+19.33
	Liberal	Deanna Sgro	8,642	27.94	-18.76
	Green	Kirsten J. Bennett	485	1.57	-0.07
	Libertarian	Jennifer Ochoa	344	1.11
	Consensus Ontario	Scott Aitchison	320	1.03
	Trillium	Lucy Guerrero	198	0.64
Total valid votes			30,929	98.73
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			397	1.27
Turnout			47.26
Eligible voters			66,289
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.48
Source: Elections Ontario[3]

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,907	46.71	-3.78
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	9,997	39.21	+4.39
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,794	10.96	-1.09
	Green	Keith Jarrett	418	1.64	+0.38
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	267	1.05	+0.58
	Independent	Wally Schwauss	111	0.44
Total valid votes			25,494	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.18
Source: Elections Ontario[4]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,455	50.49	-4.54
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	7,901	34.82	+7.17
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,735	12.05	+1.78
	Green	Joseph Rini	287	1.26	-3.68
	Independent	Leland W. Cornell	114	0.50
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	107	0.47
	Independent	Scott Aitchison	89	0.39
Total valid votes			22,688	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			170	0.74
Turnout			22,858	39.24
Eligible voters			58,255
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.86
Source: Elections Ontario[5]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	13,180	55.03	-14.28
	New Democratic	Antoni Shelton	6,622	27.65	+10.63
	Progressive Conservative	Shane O'Toole	2,459	10.27	+0.24
	Green	Sergio Pagnotta	1,184	4.94	+3.06
	Family Coalition	Julia Carvalho	277	1.16
	Independent	Ram Narula	229	0.96
Total valid votes			23,951	100.00

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,102	69.31	+5.99
	New Democratic	Garth Bobb	3,954	17.02	+4.03
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Aver	2,330	10.03	-9.54
	Green	Richard von Fuchs	437	1.88	+0.24
	Communist	Christopher Black	408	1.76
Total valid votes			16,177	100.00

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,457	63.32
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Collier	5,086	19.57
	New Democratic	Stephnie Payne	3,377	12.99
	Green	Anthony Davison	427	1.64
	Natural Law	Mark Scrafford	299	1.15
	Independent	S. Nicholas C. Lin	194	0.75
	Independent	Rosemary Ann Ray	149	0.57
Total valid votes			25,989	100.00

v t e 1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	1,268	51.21
	Conservative	W. Tyrrell	1,208	48.79
Total valid votes			2,476	63.16
Eligible voters			3,920
	Liberal hold		Swing		–
Source: Elections Ontario[6]

v t e 1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	Acclaimed
Source: Elections Ontario[7]

v t e 1871 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	865	56.32	+15.65
	Conservative	Thomas Grahame	671	43.68	−2.76
Turnout			1,536	62.54	+5.83
Eligible voters			2,456
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+9.20
Source: Elections Ontario[8]

v t e 1867 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Grahame	587	46.44
	Liberal	Dr. Bull	514	40.66
	Independent	W. Tyrrell	163	12.90
Total valid votes			1,264	56.71
Eligible voters			2,229
	Conservative pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario[9]

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	12,010	54.4
	Mixed member proportional	10,054	45.6
	Total valid votes	22,064	100.0