 Ontario electoral district | |
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| District created | 1925 |
| District abolished | 1987 |
| First contested | 1926 |
| Last contested | 1985 |
Bellwoods was a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada in the old City of Toronto's west-end. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 until 1987, [1] when it was abolished and redistributed into the Dovercourt, and Fort York districts. [2]
The district was named after Trinity Bellwoods Park, where the original Trinity College campus was located. It was created in 1926 from the Toronto Southwest and Toronto Northwest ridings. The boundaries varied over its 61 years, with its most northern boundary being the city limits just north of St. Clair Avenue. The eastern boundary went as far as Bathurst Street, and its western boundary eventually ended at Dovercourt Road. Bellwoods was demographically a mainly working class district, with a significant immigrant population. As of 2011, the area that Bellwoods represented is divided among the current Davenport, St. Paul's and Trinity—Spadina electoral districts.
| Bellwoods | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created in 1926 from parts of Toronto Southwest and Toronto Northwest | ||||
| 17th | 1926–1929 | William Edwards | Conservative | |
| 18th | 1929–1934 | Thomas Bell | Conservative | |
| 19th | 1934–1937 | Arthur Roebuck [nb 1] [nb 2] | Liberal | |
| 20th | 1937–1943 | |||
| 21st | 1943–1945 | A. A. MacLeod | Labor–Progressive | |
| 22nd | 1945–1948 | |||
| 23rd | 1948–1951 | |||
| 24th | 1951–1955 | John Yaremko | Progressive Conservative | |
| 25th | 1955–1959 | |||
| 26th | 1959–1963 | |||
| 27th | 1963–1967 | |||
| 28th | 1967–1971 | |||
| 29th | 1971–1975 | |||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | Ross McClellan | New Democratic | |
| 31st | 1977–1981 | |||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | |||
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly [3] | ||||
| Merged into Dovercourt and Fort York after 1987 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes [4] [5] [nb 3] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | W.H. Edwards | 6870 | 75.3 | |
| Liberal-Prohibitionist | Arthur Frost | 2248 | 24.7 | |
| Total | 9,118 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [6] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Thomas H. Bell | 5,056 | 74.6 | |
| Labour | George Watson | 1,334 | 19.7 | |
| Communist | T. Buck | 392 | 5.8 | |
| Total | 6,782 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [7] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | A.W. Roebuck | 8,172 | 52.6 | |
| Conservative | T.H. Bell | 5,167 | 33.3 | |
| Independent | J. Smith | 1,172 | 7.5 | |
| Communist | T. Buck | 1,016 | 6.5 | |
| Total | 15,527 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [8] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | A.W. Roebuck | 12,052 | 69.1 | |
| Conservative | John Noble | 5,094 | 29.2 | |
| Socialist-Labour | Carl Neilson | 305 | 1.7 | |
| Total | 17,451 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [9] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | A.A. MacLeod | 4,232 | 30.3 | |
| Progressive Conservative | J.P.E. Williams | 3,714 | 26.6 | |
| Liberal | George Bagwell | 3,491 | 25.0 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Lou Isaacs | 2,538 | 18.2 | |
| Total | 13,975 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [10] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor–Progressive | A.A. MacLeod | 6,632 | 35.2 | |
| Progressive Conservative | J.P.E. Williams | 5,699 | 30.2 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | A.V. Russell | 3,626 | 19.2 | |
| Liberal | A. Farmer | 2,896 | 15.4 | |
| Total | 18,853 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [11] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor–Progressive | A.A. MacLeod | 7,704 | 37.0 | |
| Progressive Conservative | George Renison | 6,467 | 31.1 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | J.S. Midanik | 4,363 | 20.9 | |
| Liberal | John Ryan | 2,293 | 11.0 | |
| Total | 20,827 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [12] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 5,546 | 33.6 | |
| Liberal | Joseph Gould | 5,187 | 31.4 | |
| Labor–Progressive | A.A. MacLeod | 3,321 | 20.1 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Marvin Gordon | 2,453 | 14.9 | |
| Total | 16,507 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [13] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 5,324 | 38.4 | |
| Liberal | Joseph Gould | 5,090 | 36.7 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Bert Groves | 1,882 | 13.6 | |
| Labor–Progressive | Stewart Smith | 1,567 | 11.3 | |
| Total | 13,863 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [14] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 6,234 | 54.6 | |
| Liberal | Nick Manfredo | 2,629 | 23.0 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Nick Rudisi | 1,788 | 15.7 | |
| Labor–Progressive | Michael Lucas | 765 | 6.7 | |
| Total | 11,416 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [15] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 6,038 | 51.0 | |
| Liberal | James Mizzoni | 4,008 | 33.9 | |
| New Democrat | Herbert Hyman | 1,792 | 15.1 | |
| Total | 11,838 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [16] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 6,646 | 47.4 | |
| Liberal | William Bassel | 4,217 | 30.1 | |
| New Democrat | Frank Parrill | 2,674 | 19.1 | |
| Independent | Ernest Barr | 490 | 3.5 | |
| Total | 14,027 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [17] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | John Yaremko | 7,831 | 51.1 | |
| New Democrat | Helen Roedde | 3,957 | 25.8 | |
| Liberal | Frank Kennedy | 3,523 | 23.0 | |
| Total | 15,311 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [18] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Ross McClellan | 4,921 | 38.2 | |
| Liberal | Millie Caccia | 4,482 | 34.7 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Elio Madonia | 3,249 | 25.2 | |
| Communist | R.J. Orlandini | 247 | 1.9 | |
| Total | 12,899 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [19] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Ross McClellan | 6,377 | 48.6 | |
| Liberal | Millie Caccia | 3,332 | 25.4 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Maria Sgro | 2,925 | 22.3 | |
| Communist | Scarth Heap | 194 | 1.5 | |
| Independent | Ronald Rogers | 156 | 1.2 | |
| Libertarian | Grace-Ann Paulson | 150 | 1.1 | |
| Total | 13,134 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [20] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Ross McClellan | 5,101 | 40.9 | |
| Liberal | Walter Bardyn | 4,766 | 38.2 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Tina Gabriel | 2,166 | 17.4 | |
| Communist | S. Baillargeon | 250 | 2.0 | |
| Independent | Ronald Rogers | 179 | 1.4 | |
| Total | 12,462 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes [21] | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democrat | Ross McClellan | 8,051 | 47.9 | |
| Liberal | Walter Bardyn | 6,527 | 38.8 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bento De Sao Jose | 1,926 | 11.5 | |
| Independent | Ronald Rogers | 316 | 1.8 | |
| Total | 16,820 |
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