Ontario electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
District created | 1925 |
District abolished | 1967 |
First contested | 1926 |
Last contested | 1965 |
Bracondale was a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1967. The constituency got its name from an old Toronto suburb called Bracondale, that was annexed by Toronto in 1909. Its most notable event was electing one of the first two women Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) to share the title "first-woman MPP" in 1943 when Rae Luckock was elected. In 1965, Bracondale's MPP, Joseph Gould, died in office sparking the final election held in the constituency. George Ben won the by-election, and became the constituency's last MPP. It was abolished for the 1967 Ontario provincial election, and redistributed into the Dovercourt and Bellwoods constituencies. As of 2023, the current electoral districts of Davenport, St. Paul's, University–Rosedale, and Spadina–Fort York encompass this historic riding. [1]
Bracondale was the name of a former Toronto suburb that was annexed by the city in 1909; [2] and north of Davenport Road, constituted the northern part of what eventually became the provincial electoral district. It was part of the northwestern expansion of the city that included Wychwood Park, and the City of West Toronto (now known as The Junction). [2] The constituency was first contested during Ontario's 17th general election on 1 December 1926. [3] Arthur Russell Nesbitt, was elected its first Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). [4] He was a member of Ontario Conservative Party. [4] The constituency's first Ontario Liberal MLA was Lionel Conacher, a famous Canadian athlete that retired from the National Hockey League to start a career in politics. [5] He was elected on 6 October 1937 in a very close race with the constituency's incumbent MLA, Nesbitt. [6] Nesbitt claimed that two ballot boxes were missing and one was filled with fraudulent ballots. [7] The constituency's returning officer was arrested, and denied bail because he had a quantity of ballots stuffed in his pockets. [7] Soon after Conacher was elected as an MLA, the legislature changed the designation for its members to Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in 1938.
Bracondale's most notable event came in 1943. Its residents elected Rae Luckock, one of two Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) female MPPs to share the title "first-female MPP"; the other was Agnes Macphail in York East. [8] Luckock lost the 4 June 1945 provincial election to Conservative Harry Hyland Hyndman, which saw the Conservatives sweep into a majority government, by gaining most of the extra seats from the CCF. [9]
Bracondale was a long and narrow constituency, ranging from the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds in the south to the city limits at St. Clair Avenue in the north, in Toronto's west-end. It included parts of the present-day neighbourhoods of Bracondale Hill, Davenport, Dovercourt Park, Dufferin Grove, Little Portugal, and Liberty Village. Its southern boundary was Lake Ontario. Its eastern boundary started on the west side of Strachan Avenue. It went north on Strachan to Queen Street West and jogged westward along Queen's south side to Crawford Avenue. It then went north on Crawford's west side until Dundas Street West, where it went eastward along the northern section of Dundas to Beatrice Street. It went north on Beatrice's west side straight through to Bloor Street West . It then jogged east on Bloor's north side to Christie Avenue. It then went along Christie to the northern boundary, the city limits just north of St. Clair Avenue West . It jogged westward along the city limits to Oakwood Avenue . It then went south along Oakwood's eastside to Davenport Road. It then jogged along Davenport's south-side to Dovercourt Road. It then went south on Dovercourt's east-side to Atlantic Avenue. On Atlantic's east-side to Lake Ontario. [10] [11]
Bracondale was a long and narrow constituency, ranging from the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds in the south to the city limits immediately north of St. Clair Avenue, in Toronto's west-end. It included parts of the present-day neighbourhoods that belong to Bracondale Hill, Davenport, Dovercourt Park, Dufferin Grove, Little Portugal, and Liberty Village. Its southern boundary was Lake Ontario. Its eastern boundary started on the west-side of Strachan Avenue. It went north on Strachan to Queen Street West and jogged westward along Queen's south side to Crawford Avenue. It then went north on Crawford's westside until Bloor Street West . It then jogged east on Bloor's north side to Christie Avenue. It then went along Christie to the northern boundary, the city limits just north of St. Clair Avenue West . It jogged westward along the city limits to Oakwood Avenue . It then went south along Oakwood's eastside to Davenport Road. It then jogged along Davenport's south-side to Dovercourt Road. It then went south on Dovercourt's east-side to Atlantic Avenue. On Atlantic's east-side to Lake Ontario. [10] [11]
In 2012, the historic boundaries are approximately part of the south-east portion of the present-day Davenport constituency, [12] a portion of the southern section of St. Paul's constituency, [13] and most of the western portion of the Trinity–Spadina constituency. [14]
Bracondale | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
Prior to 1926 part of Toronto Southwest and Toronto Northwest ridings | ||||
17th | 1926–1929 | Arthur Russell Nesbitt | Conservative | |
18th | 1929–1934 | |||
19th | 1934–1937 | |||
20th | 1937–1943 | Lionel Conacher | Liberal | |
21st | 1943–1945 | Rae Luckock | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
22nd | 1945–1948 | Harry Hyland Hyndman | Progressive Conservative | |
23rd | 1948–1951 | Harry Lindley Walters | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
24th | 1951–1955 | Arthur George Frost | Progressive Conservative | |
25th | 1955–1959 | |||
26th | 1959–1963 | Joseph Gould | Liberal | |
27th | 1963–1965 | |||
1965–1967 | George Ben | Liberal | ||
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly [15] | ||||
Merged into Bellwoods and Dovercourt ridings after 1967 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [16] | Vote % | |
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Conservative | A.R Nesbitt | 10,483 | 69.4 | |
Prohibitionist | A.W. Pike | 3,006 | 19.9 | |
Liberal | F.H Wager | 1,610 | 10.7 | |
Total | 15,099 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [17] | Vote % | |
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Conservative | A.R. Nesbitt | 7,110 | 70.8 | |
Liberal | J.J. Noad | 2,727 | 27.2 | |
Communist | Thomas C. Sims | 200 | 2.0 | |
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes [18] | Vote % | |
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Conservative | A.R. Nesbitt | 6,296 | 42.2 | |
Liberal | E.C. Bogart | 5,803 | 38.9 | |
Cooperative-Commonwealth | Rose Henderson | 2,412 | 16.2 | |
Communist | Thomas C. Sims | 362 | 2.4 | |
Socialist-Labour | William White | 32 | 0.2 | |
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes [19] | Vote % | |
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Liberal | Lionel Conacher | 7,575 | 45.6 | |
Conservative | A.R. Nesbitt | 7,528 | 45.3 | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Murray Cotterill | 1,505 | 9.1 | |
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes [20] | Vote % | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth | Rae Luckock | 4,494 | 38.3 | |
Progressive Conservative | H. Hyndman | 4,266 | 36.4 | |
Liberal | E.C. Bogart | 2,685 | 22.9 | |
Independent-Soldier | John Dymond | 283 | 2.4 | |
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes [21] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | H. Hyndman | 6,191 | 31.1 | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Rae Luckock | 4,863 | 24.4 | |
Liberal | Lionel Conacher | 4,312 | 21.7 | |
Labor–Progressive | Leslie Morris | 4,221 | 21.2 | |
Independent-Conservative | C.D. Graham | 314 | 1.6 | |
Total | 19,901 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [22] | Vote % | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth | H. Walters | 7,980 | 44.8 | |
Progressive Conservative | Fred Conboy | 6,828 | 38.3 | |
Liberal | W. Alex Gunn | 2,998 | 16.8 | |
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes [23] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Arthur Frost | 6,014 | 42.0 | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Harry Walters | 4,398 | 30.7 | |
Liberal | Frank Mills | 3,900 | 27.2 | |
Total | 14,312 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [24] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Arthur Frost | 4,718 | 37.7 | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Tom Paton | 3,392 | 30.3 | |
Liberal | George Ben | 2,985 | 26.7 | |
Labor–Progressive | Harry Hunter | 584 | 5.2 | |
Total | 11,679 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [25] | Vote % | |
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Liberal | Joseph M. Gould | 4,059 | 36.5 | |
Progressive Conservative | Harold Menzies | 3,675 | 33.1 | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Jack Elchuk | 2,924 | 26.3 | |
Independent-Conservative | Robert Martin | 453 | 4.1 | |
Total | 11,111 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [26] | Vote % | |
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Liberal | Joseph M. Gould | 4,245 | 38.2 | |
Progressive Conservative | Stanley Pronck | 4,197 | 37.8 | |
New Democrat | Stan Matias | 2,669 | 24.0 | |
Total | 11,111 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [27] | Vote % | |
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Liberal | George Ben | 4,940 | 46.35 | |
New Democrat | John Farnia | 3,486 | 32.71 | |
Progressive Conservative | Lawerance Odette | 2,233 | 20.95 | |
Total | 10,659 |
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