Willowdale is a provincial 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 Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

. It was created in 1987.

History

From 1987 to 1999, its boundaries were Bathurst Street to Finch Avenue

Finch Avenue

Finch Avenue is an arterial thoroughfare and concession road which travels east–west through the city of Toronto. The road also has short extensions into Peel and Durham Regions as Peel Regional Road 2 and Durham Regional Road 37.-History:...

 to Yonge Street

Yonge Street

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 to Steeles Avenue

Steeles Avenue

Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

 to Leslie Street to the 401

Highway 401 (Ontario)

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.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the part of the City of North York bounded on the north by the borough limits (Steeles Avenue), and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the borough limit south along the eastern limit of the city, west along the hydro-electric transmission line situated south of McNicoll Avenue, south along Highway 404, west along Finch Avenue East, south along the Don River East Branch, west along Highway 401, northwest along the Don River West Branch, north along Bathurst Street, east along Drewry Avenue, north along Chelmsford Avenue, west along Greenwin Village Road, and north along Village Gate to the northern city limit.

Since 2003, it consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit (Steeles Avenue), and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Victoria Park Avenue, southwest along the hydroelectric transmission line situated north of Apache Trail, south along Highway 404, west along Finch Avenue East, south along Leslie Street, southwest along Highway 401, northwest along the Don River West Branch, northeast along Bathurst Street, east along the hydroelectric transmission line situated north of Finch Avenue West and north along Yonge Street to the city limit.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
34th 34th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 34th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from September 10, 1987 until July 30, 1990, just prior to the 1990 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by David Peterson.- External links :*...	1987–1990		Gino Matrundola	Liberal Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
35th 35th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 35th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from September 6, 1990 until April 28, 1995, just prior to the 1995 general election. The majority party was the Ontario New Democratic Party led by Bob Rae....	1990–1995		Charles Harnick	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
36th 36th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 36th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada's most-populous province, was in session from June 8, 1995 until May 5, 1999, just prior to the Ontario general election. Majority was held by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Mike Harris....	1995–1999
37th 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was in session from June 8, 1999 until May 5, 2003, just prior to the Ontario general election...	1999–2003		David Young David Young (Ontario politician) David Young was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....
38th 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was a legislature of the government of the Province of Ontario, Canada. It officially opened November 19, 2003, at Queen's Park in Toronto, and ended on June 5, 2007...	2003–2007		David Zimmer David Zimmer David Zimmer is a Canadian provincial legislator in Ontario's Legislative Assembly, representing the North York area riding of Willowdale for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...	Liberal Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
39th 39th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 39th Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the current legislature of the government of the Province of Ontario, Canada. It officially opened November 29, 2007, at Queen's Park in Toronto. The membership was set by the 2007 Ontario general election on October 10, 2007.It is controlled by a...	2007–2011
40th	2011-present

Election results

Note: the 2011 election will be held on October 6, 2011.

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 An Ontario electoral reform referendum was held on October 10, 2007, in an attempt to establish a mixed member proportional representation system for elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	25,491	59.6
	Mixed member proportional	17,281	40.4
	Total valid votes	42,772	100.0

Sources

• Elections Ontario Past Election Results