Trinity—Spadina

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Image:Trinity Spadina.png Trinity—Spadina is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

It generally encompasses the western portion of downtown Toronto. In the 2001 Canadian census, the riding had 106,094 people of which 74,409 were eligible to vote.

The current federal Member of Parliament (MP) is Olivia Chow of the New Democratic Party. She defeated Tony Ianno of the Liberal Party of Canada in the January 23, 2006 election. The current Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) is Rosario Marchese of the Ontario New Democratic Party, who has been in office since 1990. The riding has long been a battle ground between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP recently winning provincally and the Liberals federally.

Municipally, it is divided into two wards; Ward 19 is represented by Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone; Ward 20 is vacant after the resignation of Olivia Chow to run in the 2006 federal election. On January 17, 2006, The Toronto East York Community Council recommended that City Council fill the vacancy with former city councillor Martin Silva.

Major landmarks within the riding include: the University of Toronto, the CN Tower, Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Christie Pits, Trinity-Bellwoods Park and Palmerston Boulevard.

The riding is one of the most ethnically diverse in Canada containing the heart of Toronto's Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, and Little Portugal. The northern section of the riding is the wealthy Annex district, while the eastern edge contains the University of Toronto and thousands of students. The riding has been the most left-leaning in Toronto and has voted NDP provincially for a number of years.

1 Geography
2 Federal electoral district
- 2.1 Members of Parliament
3 Provincial electoral district
- 3.1 Members of Provincial Parliament
4 Federal election results
5 Provincial election results
6 See also
7 External link

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Geography

It consists of the Toronto Islands and the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, and on the west, north and east by a line drawn from the harbour north on Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north on Dufferin, east on Queen Street West, southeas along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, north along Dovercourt Avenue, east along Dundas Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, east along the Canadian Pacific Railway situated north of Dupont Street, south along Avenue Road and Queens Park Crescent West, east along College Street and south along Yonge Street to the Harbour.

See the also map of riding created by Elections Canada (pdf).

These borders were somewhat changed in the 2004 redistribution. The northwestern corner, a somewhat pro-NDP area was lost to Davenport. A large, but mostly business area of Toronto Centre—Rosedale between University Avenue and Yonge St. was given to the riding. This region tends to have more Conservatives. The Toronto Islands were also added to the riding from Toronto Centre—Rosedale. This area is very strongly NDP and while it has a small population it is a highly activist one that provides many campaign workers for the New Democrats.

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Federal electoral district

The riding was created in 1987 from Trinity and Spadina, and smaller parts of Toronto Centre—Rosedale and Parkdale—High Park.

It consisted initially of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the south by Toronto Harbour, on the east by Avenue Road, Queen's Park Crescent West, University Avenue and York Street, and on the west and north by a line drawn from the harbour north along Spencer Avenue, east along the Gardiner Expressway, north along Atlantic Avenue, southeast along the Canadian National Railway line, north along Dovercourt Road, east along Bloor Street West, north along Ossington Avenue, and east along the Canadian Pacific Railway line to Avenue Road.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above.

Image:Trinity—Spadina, 1987.png Image:Trinity—Spadina, 1996.png

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Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons:

Dan Heap, New Democratic Party (1988-1993)
Tony Ianno, Liberal (1993-2006)
Olivia Chow, NDP (2006-present)

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Provincial electoral district

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

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Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Rosario Marchese, New Democratic Party (1999-present)

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Federal election results

2006 federal election

The 2006 election saw a third battle between NDP challenger Olivia Chow and longtime Liberal incumbent Tony Ianno, whose narrow victory over Chow in 2004 had surprised most observers. Immediately after the writ was dropped for the federal election, Chow resigned her City Hall seat and vowed not to return to her previous job as municipal councillor. Chow ran a more disciplined campaign than in 2004, focusing on winning her own seat rather than lending her support to the national campaign of her husband, NDP leader Jack Layton. Ianno suffered from the broader decline in Liberal fortunes across Canada, ultimately losing to Chow by nearly six percentage points, the largest margin of victory in any of their three electoral encounters.

2004 federal election

In the 2004 election, New Democrat city councillor Olivia Chow took on Tony Ianno again in what was expected to be a very competitive election race. Additionally, candidates from the Conservative, David Watters Green party Anna Costa, Progressive Canadian Party Asif Hossain, Canadian Action Party Tristan Downe-Dewdney and Daniel Knezetic for the Popular Democratic Party contested the election.

Unlike the 1997 battle between Chow and Ianno, this campaign largely remained civil. Chow was outside of the riding much of the time, campaigning in other ridings due to her national prestige. Many had pegged her to win because of her high profile as the wife of NDP leader Jack Layton. On election night, most were expecting Chow to win, but Ianno won a close but certain victory.

The results surprised many. Chow captured Little Italy, long Ianno's main bedrock of support and an area that polling and sign numbers showed as going strongly for Ianno. The reverse was true of the Annex which was expected to solidly vote for Chow but did so by a fairly small margin. It is believed that many in the Annex spoke from the heart to pollsters and canvassers but voted with their pocketbooks when in the privacy of the voting booth.

Ianno won on strong turnout from the waterfront condominiums that voted overwhelmingly in favour of him. In the 2003 municipal election, mayoral candidate David Miller, a New Democrat, had carried those towers by opposing the Island Airport Bridge, but most waterfront voters felt confident the bridge issue has been settled. Also important to Ianno's victory was the disintegration of support for Conservative David Watters, closely related to the general meltdown in Conservative support across the country on the days just before the election.

2000 federal election

The 2000 election was another close battle between the Liberal and NDP. The NDP ran another well-known candidate, Michael Valpy, a Globe and Mail newspaper editor. While many predicted Valpy would take the riding, Ianno once again won re-election.

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Provincial election results

1999 provincial election

Marchese easily won re-election in the 1999 provincial election.

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
Rosario Marchese	New Democrat	17,198	47.7
Albert Koehl	Liberal	9,924	27.6
Chris Loreto	Progressive Conservative	7,320	20.0
Matthew Hammond	Green	690	1.9
Ron Robins	Natural Law	282	0.8
Roberto Verdecchia	Independent	?	0.7
Silvio Ursomarzo	Family Coalition	182	0.5
Raymond Samuels	Independent	155	0.4

2003 provincial election

In the 2003 provincial election Marchese again won re-election, but not by as large a margin as previously, facing stiff competition from Nellie Pedro who received strong support from the Portuguese community.

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
Rosario Marchese	New Democrat	19,286	47.7
Nellie Pedro	Liberal	12,859	31.8
Helena Guergis	Progressive Conservative	4,936	12.2
Greg Laxton	Green	2,364	5.8
Judson Glober	Libertarian	753	1.8
Nick Lin	Independent	265	0.7

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External link

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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Trinity—Spadina

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Geography

Federal electoral district

Members of Parliament

Provincial electoral district

Members of Provincial Parliament

Federal election results

Provincial election results

See also

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