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2019 Canadian federal election: Etobicoke Centre
Yvan Baker
MP
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Member of Parliament
for Etobicoke Centre
Assumed office
October 21, 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Yvan Baker 32,80051.9-0.87$98,039.05
Conservative Ted Opitz 21,80434.5-2.83$100,790.81
New Democratic Heather Vickers-Wong4,8817.7-0.21$8,510.54
Green Cameron Semple2,7754.4+3.01none listed
People's Nicholas Serdiuk6641.1-none listed
Libertarian Mark Wrzesniewski2950.5-none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit63,219100.0
Total rejected ballots624
Turnout63,84369.5
Eligible voters91,889
Liberal hold Swing +0.98
Source: Elections Canada [20] [21]

Provincial

2018 Ontario general election : Etobicoke Centre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Kinga Surma 24,43243.00+10.58
Liberal Yvan Baker 19,70834.68-14.02
New Democratic Erica Kelly10,31118.15+6.63
Green Shawn Rizvi1,3292.34-0.29
Canadians' Choice Paul Fromm 6311.11
Libertarian Basil Mummery2520.44
Independent Wallace Richards1620.29
Total valid votes56,82599.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots5731.00
Turnout57,39861.91
Eligible voters92,715
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +12.30
Source: Elections Ontario [22]
2014 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Yvan Baker23,84850.28%
Progressive Conservative Pina Martino15,52032.72%
New Democratic Chris Jones5,75812.14%
Green George Morrison1,2542.64%
Libertarian Alexander T. Bussmann5281.11%
People's Political Party John J. Martins1930.41
Freedom Andrew Kuess1890.40
Vegan EnvironmentalFelicia Trigiani1420.30
Source: Elections Ontario [23]

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  2. ↑ "Current Members of Parliament — House of Commons of Canada". House of Commons . Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Newsroom : Biography : Yvan Baker". news.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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  6. ↑ "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014. p. 3.
  7. ↑ "Yvan Baker". Legislative Assembly of Ontario . Retrieved 5 July 2016.
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  12. ↑ "Bill 76, Pathways to Post-secondary Excellence Act (Post-secondary Educational Report), 2016". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. November 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Toronto MPP proposes fines for texting while crossing the street".
  14. ↑ "Remember the zombie law walkers? We counted the drivers who rushed red lights". The Toronto Star . December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017. The "Phones Down, Heads Up Act," proposed by Liberal MPP Yvan Baker, would fine those crossing the street while texting. Walking texters — doing the zombie shuffle — could be fined $50 for a first offence, $75 for a second offence, and $125 for each consecutive offence after that.
  15. ↑ DeLaire, Megan (December 13, 2017). "Vote: Is distracted walking a problem worth creating a law for?". Yahoo News . Retrieved December 14, 2017. "There is little or no evidence that the advent of cell phones has led to an increase in deaths due to distracted walking," DiNovo said, citing statistics published by the Ministry of Transportation that show the number of deaths caused by distracted walking did not increase at all between 1993 and 2012. [...] Dylan Reid, spokesperson for pedestrian-safety advocacy group Walk Toronto, criticized the law for law misdirecting attention for pedestrian deaths towards the victims. "When [a] 2015 Toronto Public Health study shows almost two thirds of collisions are drivers' responsibility, distracted walking is minor issue," he said on Twitter.
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  17. ↑ "MPPs team up to host government, community services fair". www.insidetoronto.com. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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  22. ↑ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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