Eglinton (federal electoral district)

For the defunct provincial electoral district, see Eglinton (provincial electoral district).

Eglinton

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1976
First contested	1935
Last contested	1974

Eglinton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto Northeast riding.

It initially consisted of Ward Nine of the city of Toronto.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded as follows: from the intersection of the Canadian National Railway line and Yonge Street, north along Yonge Street, west along Cameron Avenue, north along Easton Street, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Bathurst Street, southwest along Highway 401, south along the Spadina Expressway, Beechmount Avenue and Benner Avenue, east along Briar Hill Avenue, south along Castlewood Road, east along Eglinton Avenue, south along Elmsthorpe Avenue, and southeast along the C.N.R. line to Yonge Street.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Eglinton—Lawrence, St. Paul's and Willowdale ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Toronto Northeast
18th	1935–1940		Richard Langton Baker	Conservative
19th	1940–1945		Frederick Hoblitzell	Liberal
20th	1945–1949		Donald Fleming	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		Mitchell Sharp	Liberal
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1978
	1978–1979		Rob Parker	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Eglinton—Lawrence, St. Paul's and Willowdale

Election results

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Richard Langton Baker	13,786
	Liberal	Egerton Lovering	9,574
	Reconstruction	A. Carman Douglas	5,868
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ben H. Spence	2,474

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	21,476
	Liberal	Frederick William Rayfield	13,586
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Russell Gee	4,435
	Labor–Progressive	Leslie Varley	382
	Social Credit	Edgar Shipley Birrell	367

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	19,853
	Liberal	Jack Roy Longstaffe	16,426
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David Cass-Beggs	4,305

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	17,354
	Liberal	Jack Roy Longstaffe	11,190
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Douglas Weldon McEntee	2,337

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	25,046
	Liberal	Albert John Wilson	9,468
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gwenyth Grube	2,765
	Liberal Conservative Coalition	George Rolland	252

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	28,565
	Liberal	Albert J. Wilson	9,468
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gwenyth Grube	2,646

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Fleming	18,648
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	17,888
	New Democratic	David Gauthier	4,113
	Social Credit	Basil Duggan	341

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	22,215
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Hardy	13,984
	New Democratic	Malcolm Bowles Mitchell	5,151

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	18,719
	Progressive Conservative	Dalton Camp	16,777
	New Democratic	Malcolm Mitchell	5,538

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	23,215
	Progressive Conservative	Murray R. Maynard	11,155
	New Democratic	James T. Lemon	4,654
	Independent	Arthur L. B. Smialowski	164

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	19,389
	Progressive Conservative	Murray R. Maynard	17,819
	New Democratic	Eleanor Pelrine	5,245
	Not affiliated	Hardial Bains	132

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Mitchell Sharp	19,951
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Maynard	16,812
	New Democratic	Betty Kehoe	3,798
	Communist	Shane Parkhill	137
	Independent	Kate A. Alderice	110
	Marxist–Leninist	Hardial Bains	60

On Mr. Sharp's resignation, 2 May 1978:

By-election on 16 October 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Rob Parker	19,485
	Liberal	Doris Anderson	7,996
	New Democratic	Jim Tait	2,246

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Further reading

• Land, Brian (1965). Eglinton: the election study of a federal constituency. Toronto: P. Martin Associates.

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament