Danforth (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Danforth 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...

represented in the Canadian

Canada

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House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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from 1935 to 1968. It was located in the province

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of Ontario

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.

This riding was created in 1933 from parts of 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...

riding. It initially consisted of the eastern part of the city of Toronto

Toronto

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, bounded on the south by Lake Ontario, on the north and east by the Toronto city limits, on the west by Woodbine Avenue.

In 1952, it was redefined to include the part of Scarborough township south of St. Clair Avenue between the western limit of Scarborough and Midland Avenue. Danforth represented what is now the Greektown area of Toronto.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between 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...

, Scarborough West

Scarborough West

Scarborough West was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commonsfrom 1968 to 1997. It was located 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.

Election results

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|Joseph Henry Harris

Joseph Henry Harris

Joseph Henry Harris was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative Member of Parliament for York East in the 1921 federal election. In 1938, he was a candidate at the Conservative leadership convention, placing third...

|align="right"|9,231
|-

|WILKS, Norman
|align="right"|4,521
|-

|ELLIOTT, M. Stanley
|align="right"|3,855
|-

|LEARIE, Thomas W.
|align="right"|3,416
|}
|-

|Joseph Henry Harris

Joseph Henry Harris

|align="right"|11,847
|-

|DUNCAN, Lewis
|align="right"|8,946
|}
|-

|Joseph Henry Harris

Joseph Henry Harris

|align="right"|11,401
|-

|CALDWELL, Norman
|align="right"|6,415
|-

|MCCURDY, William Jarvis
|align="right"|4,467
|}
|-

|Joseph Henry Harris

Joseph Henry Harris

|align="right"|9,960
|-

|CALDWELL, Norman
|align="right"|8,013
|-

|MCCURDY, Avis M.
|align="right"| 5,601
|}
|-

|Robert Hardy Small

Robert Hardy Small

Robert Hardy Small was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Although a life-long Toronto resident, Small was born in Morrow, Ohio, United States, near Cincinnati, when his parents were temporarily outside of Canada.Small studied at the Ontario College of Art...

|align="right"| 12,595
|-

|JONES, Unsworth N.
|align="right"| 11,834
|-

|MCCURDY, Avis
|align="right"|5,905
|-

|WILSON, Annie Louise
|align="right"|374
|}
|-

|Robert Hardy Small

Robert Hardy Small

|align="right"| 18,604
|-

|BEST, Robert Alfred
|align="right"|9,720
|-

|BRUCE, Ernest A.
|align="right"|8,443
|}
|-

|Robert Hardy Small

Robert Hardy Small

|align="right"| 24,139
|-

|BEST, R. Alfred
|align="right"|9,352
|-

|BRUCE, Ernest A.
|align="right"|7,529
|}
|-

|SCOTT, Reid

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...

|align="right"|14,029
|-

|Robert Hardy Small

Robert Hardy Small

|align="right"|13,144
|-

|WHITEHEAD, John
|align="right"| 12,498
|-

|WATTS, Ernest T.
|align="right"|364
|}
|-

|SCOTT, Reid

Reid Scott

|align="right"|14,903
|-

|WHITEHEAD, John
|align="right"|14,701
|-

|SMALL, Robert Hardy
|align="right"| 10,835
|-

|WATTS, Ernest T.
|align="right"| 212
|}
|-

|Reid Scott

Reid Scott

|align="right"|19,320
|-

|REID, Tim
|align="right"|10,906
|-

|WARDLE, Tom
|align="right"|9,242
|}

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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Election results

See also

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