Leslie Church

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2025 Canadian federal election: Toronto—St. Paul's

Leslie Church MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Jobs and Families
Incumbent
Assumed office June 5, 2025 Servingwith Annie Koutrakis
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Leslie Church	44,313	61.88	+12.37
	Conservative	Don Stewart	23,708	33.11	+6.60
	New Democratic	Bruce Levy	2,506	3.50	−12.39
	Green	Shane Philips	552	0.77	−4.79
	People's	Joseph Frasca	329	0.46	−2.04
	Marxist–Leninist	David Gershuny	147	0.21	N/A
	Canadian Future	Cynthia Valdron	58	0.08	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			71,613	74.05
Eligible voters			96,713
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+2.89
Note: The changes in percentage value and swing were calculated using the redistributed results of the 2021 general election, not the 2024 by-election. The seat of Toronto—St. Paul's was won by the Liberals in 2021, but the seat was held by the Conservatives since 2024 following the by-election.
Source: Elections Canada [6] [7]

v t e Canadian federal by-election, June 24, 2024 : Toronto—St. Paul's Resignation of Carolyn Bennett
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Don Stewart	15,565	42.11	+16.81
	Liberal	Leslie Church	14,932	40.40	-8.82
	New Democratic	Amrit Parhar	4,073	11.02	-5.81
	Green	Christian Cullis	1,057	2.86	-3.13
	People's	Dennis Wilson	238	0.64	-2.02
	Independent	Jonathan Schachter	97	0.26
	Independent	Mário Stocco	82	0.22
	Marxist–Leninist	Meñico Turcotte	59	0.16
	Rhinoceros	Sean Carson	51	0.14
	Independent	Thibaud Mony	51	0.14
	Independent	Glen MacDonald	42	0.11
	Independent	Mélodie Anderson	39	0.11
	Independent	Demetrios Karavas	37	0.10
	No Affiliation	Stephen Davis	36	0.10
	Independent	Jordan Wong	31	0.08
	Marijuana	Danny Légaré	30	0.08
	Independent	Alex Banks	27	0.07
	Centrist	Ali Mohiuddin	26	0.07
	Independent	Jaël Champagne Gareau	23	0.06
	Independent	Michael Bednarski	18	0.05
	Independent	John Dale	18	0.05
	Independent	Pierre Larochelle	17	0.05
	Independent	Joshua Bram Hieu Pham	17	0.05
	Independent	Marie-Hélène LeBel	16	0.04
	Independent	Guillaume Paradis	16	0.04
	Independent	Daniel Andrew Graham	13	0.04
	Independent	Pierre Granger	13	0.04
	Independent	Julie St-Amand	13	0.04
	Independent	Loren Hicks	12	0.03
	Independent	Matéo Martin	12	0.03
	Independent	Blake Hamilton	11	0.03
	Independent	Line Bélanger	10	0.02
	Independent	Charles Currie	10	0.03
	Independent	Cory Deville	10	0.03
	Independent	Alexandra Engering	10	0.03
	Independent	Daniel Stuckless	10	0.03
	Independent	Erle Stanley Bowman	9	0.02
	Independent	Anthony Hamel	9	0.02
	Independent	Pascal St-Amand	9	0.02
	Independent	Sébastien CoRhino	8	0.02
	Independent	Mark Dejewski	8	0.02
	Independent	Daniel Gagnon	8	0.02
	Independent	Agnieszka Marszalek	8	0.02
	Independent	Olivier Renaud	8	0.02
	Independent	Patrick Strzalkowski	8	0.02
	Independent	Donald Gagnon	7	0.02
	Independent	Benjamin Teichman	7	0.02
	Independent	MarthaLee Aykroyd	6	0.02
	Independent	Myriam Beaulieu	6	0.02
	Independent	Kubera Desai	6	0.02
	Independent	Donovan Eckstrom	6	0.02
	Independent	Kevin Krisa	6	0.02
	Independent	Lorant Polya	6	0.02
	Independent	Roger Sherwood	6	0.02
	Independent	Elliot Wand	6	0.02
	Independent	Michal Wieczorek	6	0.02
	Independent	Maxime Boivin	5	0.01
	Independent	Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville	5	0.01
	Independent	Jean-Denis Parent Boudreault	4	0.01
	Independent	Léthycia-Félix Corriveau	4	0.01
	Independent	Ysack Dupont	4	0.01
	Independent	Dji-Pé Frazer	4	0.01
	Independent	Zornitsa Halacheva	4	0.01
	Independent	Alain Lamontagne	4	0.01
	Independent	Renée Lemieux	4	0.01
	Independent	Danimal Preston	4	0.01
	Independent	Spencer Rocchi	4	0.01
	Independent	Yogo Shimada	4	0.01
	Independent	Darcy Vanderwater	4	0.01
	Independent	Mylène Bonneau	3	0.01
	Independent	Guillaume Gagnier-Michel	3	0.01
	Independent	Kerri Hildebrandt	3	0.01
	Independent	Krzysztof Krzywinski	3	0.01
	Independent	Connie Lukawski	3	0.01
	Independent	Wallace Richard Rowat	3	0.01
	Independent	Gavin Vanderwater	3	0.01
	Independent	Alain Bourgault	2	0.01
	No Affiliation	Manon Marie Lili Desbiens	2	0.01
	Independent	Gerrit Dogger	2	0.01
	Independent	Samuel Ducharme	2	0.01
	Independent	Yusuf Kadir Nasihi	2	0.01
	Independent	Winston Neutel	2	0.01
	Independent	Jacques Saintonge	2	0.01
	Independent	Felix-Antoine Hamel	0	0.00
Total valid votes			36,962
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				43.52	-21.96
Eligible voters			84,934
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+12.76

References

1. "Leslie Church". lesliechurch.liberal.ca. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
2. "Freeland's former chief of staff begins new chapter at Proof Strategies". iPolitics. 22 January 2025.
3. "A Rematch in Toronto–St. Paul's". The Local. 22 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
4. "Toronto-St. Paul's flips from Conservatives to Liberals". CTV News. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
5. Taylor, Stephanie. "With Trudeau gone, it's like 'night and day' in a former Toronto Liberal fortress that turned Tory blue". National Post. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
6. "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
7. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.