For the provincial electoral district, see Don Valley West (provincial electoral district)

Don Valley West (provincial electoral district)

Don Valley West is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.It was created in 1999 from parts of Don Mills, York Mills, York East and Eglinton....

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Don Valley West is a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

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 in Ontario

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, Canada

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, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons

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 since 1979. Its population in 2001 was 115,539.

A by-election

By-election

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 had been scheduled for September 22, 2008, following the resignation of John Godfrey

John Godfrey

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, but was cancelled by the issuance of writs for the 2008 federal election

Canadian federal election, 2008

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Its most high-profile MP has been John Bosley, who was Speaker of the House 1984-86.

Demographics

Ethnic groups: 60.3% White, 14.3% South Asian, 8.6% Chinese, 4.6% Filipino, 4.0% Black, 3.0% West Asian, 1.4% Korean

Languages: 57.2% English, 1.3% French, 39.3% Other, 2.2% Multiple responses

Religions: 27.8% Protestant, 20.0% Catholic, 5.5% Christian Orthodox, 2.7% Other Christian; 13.6% Muslim, 8.2% Jewish, 3.7% Hindu, 1.2% Buddhist, 16.5% No affiliation

Average income: $57,558

The riding has the highest proportion of Muslims in Canada.

Geography

The district includes the neighbourhoods of York Mills

York Mills

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, Silver Hills

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, the western half of Don Mills

Don Mills

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, the eastern half of Lawrence Park

Lawrence Park, Toronto

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, Leaside

Leaside

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, Thorncliffe Park

Thorncliffe Park

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 and Flemingdon Park

Flemingdon Park

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 in the City of Toronto

Toronto

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. The area is 37 km².

Cancellation of 2008 by-election

John Godfrey

John Godfrey

John Ferguson Godfrey, PC is a Canadian educator, journalist and former Member of Parliament.- Education :He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey , was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960...

, who had represented the riding since 1993, announced in November 2007 that he would be resigning his seat on July 1, 2008 in order to accept a position as headmaster of Toronto French School

Toronto French School

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 and would leave earlier if an election were called before that date. Godfrey subsequently postponed his resignation until August 1.

On August 17, 2008, the Prime Minister's Office

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 issued a press release on behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper

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 announcing a by-election for Don Valley West on September 22, 2008. The by-election was canceled with the announcement of the federal election to held on October 14, 2008.

History

The federal electoral district was created in 1976 from Don Valley

Don Valley (electoral district)

Don Valley was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 riding

Electoral district (Canada)

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Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Don Valley Don Valley (electoral district) Don Valley was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario...  prior to 1976
31st Canadian federal election, 1979 The Canadian federal election of 1979 was held on May 22, 1979 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 31st Parliament of Canada. It resulted in the defeat of Liberal Party of Canada after 11 years in power under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Joe Clark led the Progressive...	1979–1980		John Bosley John Bosley John William Bosley, PC is a former Canadian politician. He is best known for having been Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from November 5, 1984 to September 29, 1986....	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....
32nd Canadian federal election, 1980 The Canadian federal election of 1980 was held on February 18, 1980 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 32nd Parliament of Canada...	1980–1984
33rd Canadian federal election, 1984 The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada...	1984–1988
34th Canadian federal election, 1988 The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 34th Parliament of Canada. It was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement ....	1988–1993
35th Canadian federal election, 1993 The Canadian federal election of 1993 was held on October 25 of that year to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 35th Parliament of Canada. Fourteen parties competed for the 295 seats in the House at that time...	1993–1997		John Godfrey John Godfrey John Ferguson Godfrey, PC is a Canadian educator, journalist and former Member of Parliament.- Education :He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey , was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960...	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada 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...
36th Canadian federal election, 1997 The Canadian federal election of 1997 was held on June 2, 1997, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 36th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberal Party of Canada won a second majority government...	1997–2000
37th Canadian federal election, 2000 The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000, to elect 301 Members of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons of the 37th Parliament of Canada....	2000–2004
38th Canadian federal election, 2004 The Canadian federal election, 2004 , was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections...	2004–2006
39th Canadian federal election, 2006 The 2006 Canadian federal election was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 39th Parliament of Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada won the greatest number of seats: 40.3% of seats, or 124 out of 308, up from 99 seats in 2004, and 36.3% of votes:...	2006–2008
40th Canadian federal election, 2008 The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the previous parliament had been dissolved by the Governor General on September 7, 2008...	2008–2011		Rob Oliphant Rob Oliphant Robert "Rob" Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011.- Personal life :...	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada 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...
41st	2011–present		John Carmichael John Carmichael (politician) John Carmichael is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Don Valley West as a member of the Conservative Party....	Conservative Conservative Party of Canada The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...

Election results

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Federal riding history from the Library of Parliament
  Library of Parliament
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• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada