Trinity—Spadina

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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 both provincially and federally.

Municipally, it is divided into two wards; Ward 19 is represented by Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, and Ward 20 is represented by Adam Vaughan. 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.

Contents 1 Demographics 2 Geography 3 Federal electoral district 3.1 Members of Parliament 4 Provincial electoral district 4.1 Members of Provincial Parliament 5 Federal election results 6 Provincial election results 7 City Councillors 8 See also 9 External links

Demographics

Average family income: $81,415[1] (2001)
Median family income: $50,047 [2]
Unemployment: 6.7%
Language, Mother Tongue: English 52%, French 2%, Other 46%
Religion: Catholic 32%, Protestant 15%, Buddhist 5%, Jewish 4%, Muslim 3%, Non Religious Affiliation 33% Other 7% [3]
Visible Minority: Chinese 18%, Black 4% South Asian 3%, Filipino 2%, Southeast Asian 2%, Korean 2%, Others 6%

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, southeast 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.

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.

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)

Provincial electoral district

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

Members of Provincial Parliament

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

• Rosario Marchese, New Democratic Party (1999-present)

Federal election results

2006 federal election

A third battle between NDP challenger Olivia Chow and longtime Liberal incumbent Tony Ianno took place in the 2006 election. Ianno's 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.

2006 federal election : Trinity—Spadina edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic Party	Olivia Chow	28,748	46.03%	$78,702.00
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	25,067	40.13%	$66,373.15
	Conservative	Sam Goldstein	5,625	9.00%	$22,878.5
	Green	Thom Chapman	2,398	3.83%	$165.00
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	392	0.62%	$256.70
	Marxist-Leninist	Nick Lin	138	0.22%	N/A
	Canadian Action	John Riddell	82	0.13%	$25.00
Total valid votes			62,450	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			278
Turnout			62,728	70.9%

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 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.

Ianno won on strong turnout from the waterfront condominiums that voted overwhelmingly in favour of him.

2004 federal election : Trinity—Spadina edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	23,202	43.55%	$68,821.44
	New Democratic Party	Olivia Chow	22,397	42.03%	$77,070.48
	Conservative	David Watters	4,605	8.64%	$34,598.25
	Green	Mark Viitala	2,259	4.24%	$1,329.97
	Progressive Canadian	Asif Hossain	531	0.99%	$23.78
	Marxist-Leninist	Nick Lin	102	0.19%	$163.73
	Canadian Action Party	Tristan Alexander Downe-Dewdney	91	0.17%	N/A
	N/A (Popular Democratic)	Daniel Knezetic	89	0.16%	$3,102.59
Total valid votes			53,276
Total rejected ballots			329
Turnout			53,605	63.7%

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,041	47.4
	New Democrat	Michael Valpy	15,332	38.2
	Progressive Conservative	John E. Polko	2,199	5.5
	Canadian Alliance	Lee Monaco	2,135	5.3
	Marijuana	Paul Lewin	640	1.6
	Green	Matthew Hammond	533	1.3
	Marxist-Leninist	Nick Lin	101	0.3
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	96	0.3
	Communist	Jesse Benjamin	88	0.2

1997 federal election : Trinity—Spadina edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	18,215	45.2
	New Democrat	Olivia Chow	16,413	40.7
	Progressive Conservative	Danielle Wai Mascall	2,793	6.9
	Reform	Nolan Young	1,649	4.0
	Green	Sat Singh Khalsa	392	1.0
	Natural Law	Ashley Deans	194	0.6
	Independent	John Roderick Wilson	159	0.5
	Marxist-Leninist	J.-P. Bedard	140	0.4
	Canadian Action	Thomas P. Beckerle	130	0.3
	Independent	Roberto Verdecchia	129	0.3

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	19,769
	New Democrat	Winnie Ng	10,430
	Progressive Conservative	Lee Monaco	3,129
	Reform	Peter Loftus	3,027
	National	Patrick Kutney	881
	Green	Chris Lea	623
	Natural Law	Ashley James Deans	391
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	283
	Marxist-Leninist	Fernand Deschamps	74
	Abolitionist	Robert Martin	52

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democrat	Dan Heap	15,565
	Liberal	Tony Ianno	15,082
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Pimentel	8,618
	Libertarian	Paul Barker	494
	Rhino	John Douglas	444
	Independent	Sukhdev S. Grewal	127
	Not affiliated	Charles Shrybman	49

Provincial election results

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

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

City Councillors

Metro Ward 20

• Joe Pantalone ?-1997

Metro Ward 24

• Olivia Chow - 1991-1997

Toronto Ward 24

• Olivia Chow - Metro Council Ward 24 1998-2000

Toronto Ward 19

• Joe Pantalone 1998-

Toronto Ward 20

• Olivia Chow - 2000-2006; 2006
• Martin Silva 2006
• Adam Vaughan 2006-

Toronto Ward 4

• Martin Silva ?-1997
• William Peyton Hubbard 1894-1915

Toronto Ward 5

• Dan Leckie ?-1997

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Riding Map

Federal Ridings in Greater Toronto
Liberal	Ajax—Pickering | Beaches—East York | Bramalea—Gore—Malton | Brampton—Springdale | Brampton West | Davenport | Don Valley East | Don Valley West | Eglinton—Lawrence | Etobicoke Centre | Etobicoke—Lakeshore | Etobicoke North | Markham—Unionville | Mississauga—Brampton South | Mississauga East—Cooksville | Mississauga—Erindale | Mississauga South | Mississauga—Streetsville* | Oak Ridges—Markham | Pickering—Scarborough East | Richmond Hill | St. Paul's | Scarborough—Agincourt | Scarborough Centre | Scarborough—Guildwood | Scarborough—Rouge River | Scarborough Southwest | Thornhill | Toronto Centre | Vaughan | Willowdale | York Centre | York South—Weston | York West
New Democratic	Parkdale—High Park | Toronto—Danforth | Trinity—Spadina
Conservative	Mississauga—Streetsville* | Oshawa | Whitby—Oshawa
* Mississauga—Streetsville MP Wajid Khan was elected as a Liberal, but has crossed the floor to the Conservatives.

Federal Ridings in Ontario
Central Ontario	Barrie | Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound | Dufferin—Caledon | Durham | Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock | Newmarket—Aurora | Northumberland—Quinte West | Peterborough | Simcoe—Grey | Simcoe North | York—Simcoe
Eastern Ontario	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | Kingston and the Islands | Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington | Leeds—Grenville | Prince Edward—Hastings | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke | Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry
Toronto (S Durham & York, Suburbs, Downtown, Brampton & Mississauga)	Ajax—Pickering | Beaches—East York | Bramalea—Gore—Malton | Brampton—Springdale | Brampton West | Davenport | Don Valley East | Don Valley West | Eglinton—Lawrence | Etobicoke Centre | Etobicoke—Lakeshore | Etobicoke North | Markham—Unionville | Mississauga—Brampton South | Mississauga East—Cooksville | Mississauga—Erindale | Mississauga South | Mississauga—Streetsville | Oak Ridges—Markham | Oshawa | Parkdale—High Park | Pickering—Scarborough East | Richmond Hill | St. Paul's | Scarborough—Agincourt | Scarborough Centre | Scarborough—Guildwood | Scarborough—Rouge River | Scarborough Southwest | Thornhill | Toronto Centre | Toronto—Danforth | Trinity—Spadina | Vaughan | Whitby—Oshawa | Willowdale | York Centre | York South—Weston | York West
Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale | Burlington | Halton | Hamilton Centre | Hamilton East—Stoney Creek | Hamilton Mountain | Niagara Falls | Niagara West—Glanbrook | Oakville | St. Catharines | Welland
Midwestern Ontario	Brant | Cambridge | Guelph | Haldimand—Norfolk | Huron—Bruce | Kitchener Centre | Kitchener—Conestoga | Kitchener—Waterloo | Oxford | Perth—Wellington | Wellington—Halton Hills
Northern Ontario	Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | Kenora | Nickel Belt | Nipissing—Timiskaming | Parry Sound—Muskoka | Sault Ste. Marie | Sudbury | Thunder Bay—Rainy River | Thunder Bay—Superior North | Timmins—James Bay
Southwestern Ontario	Chatham-Kent—Essex | Elgin—Middlesex—London | Essex | Lambton—Kent—Middlesex | London—Fanshawe | London North Centre | London West | Sarnia—Lambton | Windsor—Tecumseh | Windsor West
Ottawa	Carleton—Mississippi Mills | Nepean—Carleton | Ottawa Centre | Ottawa—Orléans | Ottawa South | Ottawa—Vanier | Ottawa West—Nepean