Don Valley North
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Don Valley North was a federal electoral district
Electoral district (Canada)
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 represented in the Canadian
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 House of Commons
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 from 1988 to 1997. It was located the city of North York
North York, Ontario
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, in the province
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 of Ontario
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. This riding was created in 1987, and was first used in the federal election
Canadian federal election, 1988
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 of 1988. It was created from parts of Don Valley East
Don Valley East
Don Valley East is a federal electoral district in Canada that covers the northeast section of the North York part of Toronto. The federal riding was created in 1976 from parts of Willowdale, York East, York North, and York—Scarborough ridings....

 and York--Scarborough ridings.

Don Valley North consisted of the part of the City of North York lying within the following limits: commencing at the intersection of Bayview Avenue and Steeles Avenue East; east to Victoria Park Avenue, south to Highway 401
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, west to the Don River East Branch, north to Finch Avenue East, west along Finch Avenue to Bayview Avenue, and then north along Bayview Avenue to the point of commencement.

Former North York city council member Barbara Greene
Barbara Greene
Barbara Greene is a Canadian politician. She served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She was previously a municipal politician in North York, and campaigned for mayor of the city in 1985...

, a Progressive Conservative
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, was elected as its first Member of Parliament
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 in the 1988 election. She was defeated by Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
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 Sarkis Assadourian
Sarkis Assadourian
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 in the 1993 election
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.

In 1996, the riding was abolished through redistribution, and divided between Don Valley East
Don Valley East
Don Valley East is a federal electoral district in Canada that covers the northeast section of the North York part of Toronto. The federal riding was created in 1976 from parts of Willowdale, York East, York North, and York—Scarborough ridings....

 and Willowdale
Willowdale (electoral district)
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 ridings.

Electoral history

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|Progressive Conservative
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|GREENE, Barbara
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|Liberal
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The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...


|ASSADOURIAN, Sarkis
Sarkis Assadourian
Sarkis Assadourian is an Armenian-Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada. He became the first Armenian-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons, with great support of the Armenian community of Toronto.Assadourian has grown distant to some in the Armenian-Canadian community by...


|align="right"|16,947

|New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
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|KUERTI, Anton
Anton Kuerti
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|align="right"| 4,777

|Independent
|MICHAEL, Bernadette
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|Libertarian
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|EPSTEIN, Earl
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|-

|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
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|ASSADOURIAN, Sarkis
Sarkis Assadourian
Sarkis Assadourian is an Armenian-Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada. He became the first Armenian-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons, with great support of the Armenian community of Toronto.Assadourian has grown distant to some in the Armenian-Canadian community by...


|align="right"|22,510

|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....


|GREENE, Barbara
|align="right"|7,238

|Reform
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|COBBOLD, Peter
|align="right"|6,071

|New Democratic Party
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|LU, David
|align="right"|1,391

|Natural Law
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|SPARLING, William J.
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|Abolitionist
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|KING, Lindsay George
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