Beaches (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Beaches was a federal and provincial electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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, represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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from 1979 to 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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from 1926 to 1967.

Federal electoral district

The federal riding was created in 1976, from parts of Broadview

Broadview (electoral district)

Broadview was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto East and Toronto—Scarborough ridings....

, Greenwood

Greenwood (electoral district)

Greenwood was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1979. It was located in east end of the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario...

and York East

York East

York East was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons at different times, and a provincial electoral district. It was located in the province of Ontario.-Federal electoral district :...

ridings.

It consisted of that part of the City of Toronto east of a line drawn from south to north along Leslie Street, west along Queen Street East, north along Jones Avenue, east along Gerrard Street East, and north along Greenwood Avenue.

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed between Beaches—Woodbine and Broadview—Greenwood ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

Robin Richardson
Robin Richardson
Robin Mark Richardson was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was an economist by career, once working with the Fraser Institute. At one time, he was a minister for a Christian church in Esquimalt....

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
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, (1979-1980)
Neil Young
Neil Young (politician)
Neil Young is a former Canadian politician. He emigrated to Canada in the 1950s and worked as a machinist in the electrical industry. He later became an organizer for the United Electrical Workers Union....

, New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
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, (1980-1988)

Provincial electoral district

The Beaches provincial riding was created in 1926. It was merged in 1967 with the neighbouring riding of Woodbine

Woodbine (electoral district)

Woodbine was an Ontario provincial electoral district that existed from 1926 to 1967. It covered a section of the eastern city of Toronto east of Jones Avenue and west of Woodbine Avenue. It was merged with the Beaches in 1967 to create the riding of Beaches—Woodbine.-MLAs/MPPs for St...

to become Beaches—Woodbine

Beaches—Woodbine (provincial electoral district)

Beaches—Woodbine was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1967 by merging the former ridings of Woodbine and Beaches....

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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Thomas Alexander Murphy, Conservative/Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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, (1926-1948)
Reid Scott
Reid Scott
Reid Scott is a retired lawyer and provincial judge in Canada, and a former New Democratic Party of Member of Parliament for the Danforth electoral district, in Toronto, from 1962 to 1968, leaving federal politics when his riding disappeared due to redistribution...

, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Ontario New Democratic Party
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, (1948-1951)
William Henry Collings, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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, (1951-1963)
Robert John Harris, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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, (1963-1967)

Federal election results

|-

|RICHARDSON, Robin
|align="right"| 12,840
|-

|YOUNG, Neil
|align="right"| 12,322
|-

|FULLERTON, Brian
|align="right"| 11,232
|-

|ANDERSON, David
|align="right"| 388
|-

|DALEY, Donald A.
|align="right"| 129
|-

|SKUCE, Judi
|align="right"| 111
|-

|MCKIBBIN, Jim
|align="right"|91
|-

|MCMILLAN, Jim
|align="right"| 69
|}
|-

|YOUNG, Neil
|align="right"| 12,675
|-

|O'REILLY, Terry
|align="right"| 11,179
|-

|RICHARDSON, Robin
|align="right"|11,179
|-

|CORRIGAN, Dennis
|align="right"| 272
|-

|REID, David
|align="right"| 214
|-

|MCKIBBIN, Jim
|align="right"|60
|-

|CORRIERO, Vince
|align="right"| 45
|}
|-

|YOUNG, Neil
|align="right"| 14,914
|-

|JONES, Jack
|align="right"| 12,443
|-

|KELLY, Terry
|align="right"| 8,155
|-

|HANCOCK, Trevor
|align="right"| 581
|-

|CORRIGAN, Dennis
|align="right"| 353
|-

|KENNEDY, Terrence
|align="right"| 132
|-

|TURMEL, John C.
|align="right"| 112
|-

|THORSEN, Ron
|align="right"| 27
|}

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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