Ontario electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
District created | 1963 |
District abolished | 1985 |
First contested | 1963 |
Last contested | 1987 |
Demographics | |
Census division(s) | Toronto |
Census subdivision(s) | Toronto |
Armourdale was a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from the 1963 provincial election until it was eliminated in 1987, when most of its territory was incorporated into the ridings of Wilson Heights, Willowdale, and York Mills. Armourdale was created from part of the former riding of York Centre. It was in the former borough of North York and occupied an area to the west of Yonge Street and east of Bathurst Street.
Three Members of Provincial Parliament represented the riding during its history. The most notable was Philip Givens who was a former mayor of Toronto. He ran in 1975 against Mel Lastman who went on to become mayor of North York and Toronto.
Armourdale | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
Created from York Centre in 1963 | ||||
27th | 1963–1967 | Gordon Carton | Progressive Conservative | |
28th | 1967–1971 | |||
29th | 1971–1975 | |||
30th | 1975–1977 | Phil Givens | Liberal | |
31st | 1977–1981 | Bruce McCaffrey | Progressive Conservative | |
32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
33rd | 1985–1987 | |||
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly [1] | ||||
Merged into Wilson Heights, Willowdale, and York Mills ridings after 1987 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [2] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Gordon Carton | 10,245 | 50.1 | |
Liberal | Allan Hollingworth | 6,037 | 29.5 | |
New Democrat | Vince Kelly | 4,171 | 20.4 | |
Total | 20,453 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [3] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Gordon Carton | 10,706 | 44.3 | |
Liberal | Donald Brill | 6,864 | 28.4 | |
New Democrat | Harold Koehler | 6,603 | 27.3 | |
Total | 24,173 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [4] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Gordon Carton | 16,166 | 50.0 | |
Liberal | Donald Copley | 8,629 | 26.7 | |
New Democrat | Harold Koehler | 7,554 | 23.4 | |
Total | 32,349 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [5] | Vote % | |
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Liberal | Phil Givens | 14,739 | 43.9 | |
Progressive Conservative | Mel Lastman | 12,100 | 35.9 | |
New Democrat | M. Mocciola | 6,255 | 18.6 | |
Independent | David Liddiard | 583 | 1.7 | |
Total | 33,677 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [6] [nb 1] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Bruce McCaffrey | 13,371 | 43.2 | |
Liberal | Des Newman | 10,837 | 35.0 | |
New Democrat | Marlene Koehler | 6,264 | 20.2 | |
Libertarian | Bruce Evoy | 265 | 0.9 | |
Independent | David L. Wragett | 250 | 0.8 | |
Total | 30,987 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [7] [nb 2] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Bruce McCaffrey | 15,400 | 54.5 | |
Liberal | Tim Rutledge | 8,767 | 31.0 | |
New Democrat | Bob Hebdon | 4,085 | 14.5 | |
Total | 28,252 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [8] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Bruce McCaffrey | 13,385 | 41.1 | |
Liberal | Gino Matrundola | 13,229 | 40.6 | |
New Democrat | Bob Hebdon | 5,492 | 16.9 | |
Libertarian | Simon Srdarev | 446 | 1.4 | |
Total | 32,552 |
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