Eglinton Ontario electoral district Legislature House of Commons District created 1933 District abolished 1976 First contested 1935 Last contested 1974
Eglinton was a federal electoral district in Ontario , Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto Northeast riding .
It initially consisted of Ward Nine of the city of Toronto.
In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded as follows: from the intersection of the Canadian National Railway line and Yonge Street, north along Yonge Street, west along Cameron Avenue, north along Easton Street, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Bathurst Street, southwest along Highway 401, south along the Spadina Expressway, Beechmount Avenue and Benner Avenue, east along Briar Hill Avenue, south along Castlewood Road, east along Eglinton Avenue, south along Elmsthorpe Avenue, and southeast along the C.N.R. line to Yonge Street.
The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Eglinton—Lawrence , St. Paul's and Willowdale ridings.
Members of Parliament [ ]
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament :
Parliament
Years
Member
Party
Riding created from Toronto Northeast
18th
1935–1940 Richard Langton Baker Conservative
19th
1940–1945 Frederick Hoblitzell Liberal
20th
1945–1949 Donald Fleming Progressive Conservative
21st
1949–1953
22nd
1953–1957
23rd
1957–1958
24th
1958–1962
25th
1962–1963
26th
1963–1965 Mitchell Sharp Liberal
27th
1965–1968
28th
1968–1972
29th
1972–1974
30th
1974–1978
1978–1979 Rob Parker Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Eglinton—Lawrence , St. Paul's and Willowdale
Election results [ ]
1935 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Conservative
Richard Langton Baker
13,786
Liberal
Egerton Lovering
9,574
Reconstruction
A. Carman Douglas
5,868
Co-operative Commonwealth
Ben H. Spence
2,474
1940 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Frederick Hoblitzell
17,166
National Government
Richard Langton Baker
16,926
1945 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
21,476
Liberal
Frederick William Rayfield
13,586
Co-operative Commonwealth
Russell Gee
4,435
Labor–Progressive
Leslie Varley
382
Social Credit
Edgar Shipley Birrell
367
1949 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
19,853
Liberal
Jack Roy Longstaffe
16,426
Co-operative Commonwealth
David Cass-Beggs
4,305
1953 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
17,354
Liberal
Jack Roy Longstaffe
11,190
Co-operative Commonwealth
Douglas Weldon McEntee
2,337
1957 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
25,046
Liberal
Albert John Wilson
9,468
Co-operative Commonwealth
Gwenyth Grube
2,765
Liberal Conservative Coalition
George Rolland
252
1958 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
28,565
Liberal
Albert J. Wilson
9,468
Co-operative Commonwealth
Gwenyth Grube
2,646
1962 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
18,648
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
17,888
New Democratic
David Gauthier
4,113
Social Credit
Basil Duggan
341
1963 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
22,215
Progressive Conservative
Eric Hardy
13,984
New Democratic
Malcolm Bowles Mitchell
5,151
1965 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
18,719
Progressive Conservative
Dalton Camp
16,777
New Democratic
Malcolm Mitchell
5,538
1968 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
23,215
Progressive Conservative
Murray R. Maynard
11,155
New Democratic
James T. Lemon
4,654
Independent
Arthur L. B. Smialowski
164
1972 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
19,389
Progressive Conservative
Murray R. Maynard
17,819
New Democratic
Eleanor Pelrine
5,245
Not affiliated
Hardial Bains
132
1974 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Mitchell Sharp
19,951
Progressive Conservative
Murray Maynard
16,812
New Democratic
Betty Kehoe
3,798
Communist
Shane Parkhill
137
Independent
Kate A. Alderice
110
Marxist–Leninist
Hardial Bains
60
On Mr. Sharp's resignation, 2 May 1978:
By-election on 16 October 1978
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Rob Parker
19,485
Liberal
Doris Anderson
7,996
New Democratic
Jim Tait
2,246
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