Hamilton East (provincial electoral district)
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- For information on the Hamilton East federal electoral district, see Hamilton East.
Hamilton East is provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1894. It has consisted of the eastern part of the city of Hamilton, Ontario. It is considered a working class district.
[edit] History
This riding elected the first Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to the Ontario legislature: Samuel Lawrence in the 1934 provincial election. The riding had previously elected Ontario's first ever provincial Labour MLA Allan Studholme in a 1906 by-election. Studholme remained in office until his death in 1919 when he was succeeded in by another Labour MLA, George Grant Halcrow (1919-1923).
It is currently represented provincially by Andrea Horwath of the CCF's successor, the Ontario New Democratic Party.
[edit] Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
- James Taylor Middleton - Liberal - 1894-1898
- Henry Carscallen - Conservative - 1898-1906
- Allan Studholme - Labour - 1906-1919
- George Grant Halcrow - Labour - 1919-1923
- Leeming Carr - Conservative - 1923-1928
- William Morrison - Conservative - 1928-1934
- Samuel Lawrence - Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - 1934-1937
- John P. MacKay - Liberal 1937-1943
- William Herbert Connor - CCF - 1943-1945
- Robert Ellsworth Elliott - Progressive Conservative - 1945-1948
- John Lawrence Dowling - CCF - 1948-1951
- Robert Ellsworth Elliott - Progressive Conservative - 1951-1959
- Norman Andrew Davison - CCF/New Democratic Party - 1959-1967
- Robert Victor Gibson - NDP - 1967-1975
- Bob Warren Mackenzie - NDP - 1975-1995
- Dominic Agostino - Liberal - 1995-2004
- Andrea Horwath - NDP - 2004-
- Elections Ontario information for Hamilton East (provincial)
