Broadview (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Broadview was a federal 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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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto East

Toronto East

Toronto East was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1935. It was located in the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867.East Toronto initially consisted of St. Lawrence, St. Davids and...

and Toronto—Scarborough

Toronto—Scarborough

Toronto—Scarborough was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the east end of the city of Toronto, in the province of Ontario...

ridings.

It initially consisted of the part of the city of Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

bounded by a line drawn north from Lake Ontario along Leslie Avenue, west along Eastern Avenue, north along Rushbrook Avenue, west along Queen Street, north along Jones Avenue, west along Danforth Avenue, north along Langford Avenue, thence west along the city limits, and south and west along the Don River to Toronto Bay.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded by a line drawn north from Lake Ontario along Leslie Street, east along Queen Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, west along Sammon Avenue, south along Pape Avenue, west along Fulton Avenue to Broadview Avenue, south along the Don River, west along Lake Shore Boulevard East, and south along Cherry Street to Lake Ontario.

Its provincial counterpart in elections to the Ontario Legislative Assembly was the riding of Riverdale which covered much of the same area.

Broadview was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Beaches

Beaches (electoral district)

Beaches was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1967.-Federal electoral district:...

, Broadview—Greenwood and Rosedale ridings.

Election results

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|CHURCH, Thomas Langton

Thomas Langton Church

Thomas Langton "Tommy" Church was a Canadian politician.After serving as Mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 election as a Conservative from the riding of Toronto North...

|align="right"| 11,380
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|SNELGROVE, Harold P.
|align="right"| 7,527
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|SPRY, Graham

Graham Spry

- Further reading :*Babe, Robert. "Graham Spry" in Canadian Communications Thought: Ten Foundational Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-7949-0.*McChesney, Robert W. , Canadian Journal of Communication 24....

|align="right"| 5,167
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|MACCORKINDALE, John C.
|align="right"| 3,793
|}
|-

|CHURCH, Thomas Langton
|align="right"| 14,474
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|GRESSEWELL, George
|align="right"| 7,866
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|GRUBE, George

George

-People:*See George *See George *See Saint George -Places:Australia*Lake George, New South WalesCanada*George's Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador*George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorSouth Africa...

|align="right"| 2,613
|}
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|CHURCH, Thomas Langton
|align="right"| 13,011
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|MCNAMARA, Joseph
|align="right"| 6,362
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|GRUBE, George
|align="right"| 5,414
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|COLLINS, Fred
|align="right"| 694
|}
|-

|CHURCH, Thomas Langton
|align="right"|10,507
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|RADFORD, Ruth
|align="right"|9,316
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|GRUBE, George
|align="right"| 7,636
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|HENDRY, William Blackwood
|align="right"| 271
|}

On Mr. Church's death, 7 February 1950:

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|HEES, George H.

George Hees

George Harris Hees, PC, OC was a Canadian politician.Born in Toronto to a patrician family, Hees earned a playboy image during his youth , but then became a stalwart member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada...

|align="right"| 10,399
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|RADFORD, Ruth Elizabeth
|align="right"|6,055
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|GRUBE, George
|align="right"| 4,975
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|WEIR, Charles
|align="right"| 184
|}
|-

|HEES, George Harris
|align="right"|10,403
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|CARROLL, Joseph J.
|align="right"|6,316
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|GARGRAVE, Herbert
|align="right"| 3,910
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|KASHTAN, William

William Kashtan

William Kashtan became general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada in January 1965, several months following the death of Leslie Morris. The delay in his assuming the position was due to the opposition of Tim Buck to his appointment....

|align="right"| 224
|-

|SANDERSON, Alan
|align="right"| 130
|}
|-

|HEES, George
|align="right"| 12,815
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|DOIDGE, Terrence R.
|align="right"| 4,664
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|BURNS, Ron
|align="right"|4,078
|}
|-

|HEES, George
|align="right"| 15,364
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|TAYLOR, George A.
|align="right"| 4,738
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|LEE, John A.
|align="right"| 3,356
|-

|DOWSON, Ross

Ross Dowson

Ross Jewitt Dowson was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure.-Early life:Dowson joined the Trotskyist movement as a teenager during the Great Depression. The Canadian Trotskyist movement collapsed at the beginning of World War II as leaders such as Jack MacDonald, Maurice Spector and Earle Birney...

|align="right"| 447
|}
|-

|HEES, George
|align="right"| 8,929
|-

|HAHN, David G.
|align="right"| 7,658
|-

|GALLAGHER, Gerry
|align="right"|5,330
|}
|-

|HAHN, David G.

David Hahn (Canadian politician)

David George Hahn was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a businessman by career.He was first elected at the Broadview riding in the 1963 general election, after an unsuccessful attempt to win the riding in 1962...

|align="right"| 8,743
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|DAY, Glen
|align="right"| 6,684
|-

|GILBERT, John

John Gilbert (Canadian politician)

John Gilbert was a Canadian lawyer, politician and jurist.Gilbert was born in Toronto and grew up in a poor working class family which he helped support during the Great Depression by selling newspapers at the corner of Yonge and Bloor for two cents each and by gathering coal that had fallen off...

|align="right"| 5,574
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|COMERFORD, Tom
|align="right"| 166
|-

|GRAHAM, Fred
|align="right"| 149
|-

|SANDERSON, Alan
|align="right"| 43
|}
|-

|GILBERT, John

John Gilbert (Canadian politician)

|align="right"| 8,232
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|HAHN, David G.
|align="right"| 6,876
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|LYALL, Richard H.
|align="right"| 5,481
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|HENDRY, William B.
|align="right"| 147
|}
|-

|GILBERT, John
|align="right"| 10,406
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|SUTHERLAND, Bob
|align="right"| 9,929
|-

|KNIGHT, Betty M.
|align="right"| 4,752
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|HENDRY, William B.
|align="right"| 202
|}
|-

|GILBERT, John
|align="right"|11,063
|-

|CLIFFORD, Tom
|align="right"| 7,903
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|MURPHY, Peter
|align="right"| 7,465
|-

|DEWHURST, Alfred
|align="right"|123
|-

|HALL, Ron
|align="right"| 54
|}
|-

|GILBERT, John
|align="right"| 9,392
|-

|YANKOU, Lou
|align="right"| 8,158
|-

|JAMIESON, Bob
|align="right"| 5,617
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|BELEJ, Walter
|align="right"| 137
|-

|GIANNAKOPOULOS, Angelo E.
|align="right"|128
|-

|DENNIS, Susan
|align="right"| 101
|}

On Mr. Gilbert's resignation, 28 April 1978:

|-

|RAE, Bob

Bob Rae

Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....

|align="right"| 8,388
|-

|CLIFFORD, Tom

Tom Clifford

Tom Clifford is a former municipal politician in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.He served twenty-seven years as an elected official as School Trustee for the Toronto Board of Education and as a City of Toronto Councillor representing the East Toronto and Riverdale area.In a 1978 federal...

|align="right"| 7,968
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|VALERIS, Philipp
|align="right"| 3,466
|-

|LIANOS, Tom
|align="right"| 204
|}

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Library of Parliament
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Election results

See also

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