Toronto Southwest was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, in the old City of Toronto's west-end. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 until 1926, when it was abolished and redistributed into the Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick districts. It had two seats in the Legislature: Seat A and Seat B. They were each elected in separate first-past-the-post election contests.
Boundaries Toronto Southwest's boundaries remained the same for the three elections that it was contested; and gaining a significant boost in eligible voters in 1919, when women and underage soldiers were given the right to vote for the first time. The northern boundary was College Street, starting at Lansdowne Avenue, across. It then went southwards along its eastern border on the western edge of University Avenue to Simcoe Street and then to Lake Ontario. It also included the Toronto Islands. The western border picked up on land on Dunn Avenue and then jogged west on the north side of Queen Street West to the east side of Lansdowne Avenue. It continued north on Lansdowne to the south side of College Street.
Members of Provincial Parliament Parliament Years Member Party prior to 1914 part of Toronto South and Toronto West ridings Seat A 14th 1914–1916 J.J. FoyFoy died in office 13 June 1916 Conservative 1916–1919 Hartley Dewart Liberal 15th 1919–1923 16th 1923–1926 James Arthur McCausland Conservative Seat B 14th 1914–1919 George Horace Gooderham Conservative 15th 1919–1923 John Carman Ramsden Liberal 16th 1923–1926 Frederick George McBrien ConservativeSourced from the Ontario Legislative AssemblyFor a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below: For James Foy's Legislative Assembly information see For Hubert Dewart's Legislative Assembly information see For James McCausland's Legislative Assembly information see For George Gooderham's Legislative Assembly information see For John Ramsden's Legislative Assembly information see For Frederick McBrien's Legislative Assembly information see merged into Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, St. Patrick after 1926
Election results Elections were run as separate races for Seat A and Seat B rather than a combined race.
Seat A
+ 1914 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative J.J. Foy 3,631 58.1 Liberal MaybeeOnly last name of candidate given. 2,228 35.7 Independent ColumboOnly last name of candidate given. 389 6.2 Total 6,248
+ By-election 21 August 1916PartyCandidate Votes Vote % Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 2,705 50.6 Conservative J.A. Norris 2,062 38.6 Socialist J.M. Conner 445 8.3 Independent-Liberal Gordon Waldron 131 2.5 Total 5,343
+ 1919 Ontario general electionThis was the first election to allow women to vote, more than doubling the vote counts in each riding.PartyCandidate Votes13 polls unreported. Vote % Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 15,471 63.8 Conservative George Horace Gooderham 8,760 36.2 Total 24,231
+ 1923 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes138 out of 146 polls reporting. Vote % Conservative James Arthur McCausland 7,967 58.0 Liberal Hubert Hartley Dewart 3,211 23.4 Labour Malcolm L. Bruce 2,562 18.6 Total 13,740
Seat B + 1914 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative George Horace Gooderham 5,695 71.2 Liberal William Raney 2,301 28.8 Total
+ 1919 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Liberal John Carman Ramsden 11,645 46.9 Conservative William C. McBrien 7,228 29.1 Labour John McDonald 5,960 24.0 Total 24,833
+ 1923 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Frederick George McBrien 7,415 52.8 Independent-Liberal Joseph Singer 2,306 16.4 Liberal John MacDonald 2,209 15.7 Liberal John Carman Ramsden 2,115 15.1Total 14,045
See also List of Ontario provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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